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  • GCSE Sustainable Cities

    Students will investigate sustainable urban communities and environments. Focussing on a sustainable development, the students will use the Egan wheel as a tool for assessing sustainability. Through primary data collection and secondary resources, students will assess the location against the 8 characteristics of a sustainable community.

  • GCSE Challenges in Cities – Linked to Case Study

    Students will develop a case study of one major UK city. Within a day, we can only visit a small part of the city, giving an overview of the scale and structure of a major city. Students will investigate ways of life and contemporary challenges that affect urban change…

  • GCSE Flooding

    Students will investigate the causes of flooding on a named river basin considering the geology, land cover and shape of the drainage basin (the bification ratio). Students will visit the river and measure the impacts associated with flood events in the town. A visit to a Flood Alleviation Scheme will…

  • GCSE Fieldwork Day

    Students will undertake a geographical enquiry including collecting primary data. They will: 1. Identify a suitable question 2. Select, measure and record data 3. Select ways of processing and presenting data 4. Describe, analyse and explain collected data 5. Reach conclusions 6. Evaluate the enquiry On the day the focus…

  • GCSE Weather and Microclimate – IGCSE

    Visit a weather station and take standard readings including temperature, rainfall, cloud cover and wind direction and speed. Compare microclimates in contrasting habitats using random sampling.

  • GCSE Urban Inequality

    Investigate and compare environmental quality and deprivation in two contrasting areas. Undertake quantitative and qualitative fieldwork including land use surveys and environmental quality assessments.

  • GCSE Counter Urbanisation

    Investigate the impact of counter-urbanisation in two contrasting settlements. Carry out quantitative and qualitative fieldwork to investigate the effects, including environmental quality surveys, questionnaires, service provision and observations.

  • GCSE Quality of Life

    Investigating how and why quality of life varies within urban areas. Students will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of the kinds of questions capable of being investigated through fieldwork in urban environments. Students will have an opportunity to develop a question(s) based on their location and the…

  • GCSE Changing City Environments

    Students will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of questions that can be investigated through fieldwork in an urban environment. Students will carry out fieldwork to investigate at least: A qualitative and a quantitative fieldwork method. Students will use and / or design a subjective scale to measure…

  • GCSE Ecosystems

    A comparison of the two different areas will be used to observe the contrasting abundance of plants associated with varying management regimes. How human activity affects biodiversity, local flows, cycles and processes. Students will investigate the interdependence of abiotic and biotic components.

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