Ryedale School

An exciting, contemporary new course in which students develop an understanding of key processes and features in UK and around the world. 

The course aims to highlight important challenges and opportunities the human race is facing including; natural hazards, climate change, poverty, global shifts in economic power, the importance of new technologies and the sustainable use of the planet's resources.  

Students will be encouraged to make links between issues and appreciate different values and attitudes in order to recognise the complex inter-relationships found within and between physical and human geography 

COURSE CONTENT 

Unit 1 Living With the Physical Environment: 

• The challenge of natural hazards (volcanoes, earthquakes, tropical storms, extreme weather in the UK and climate change) 
• Physical landscapes in the UK (relating to rivers & coasts) 
• The living world (the characteristics and sustainable management of cold environments and tropical rainforests)  

Unit 2 Challenges in the Human Environment: 

• Urban issues and challenges 
• The changing economic world (the development gap, factors driving rapid economic development in lower income countries and understanding the UK economy) 
• The challenge of resource management (globally & in the UK) 

Unit 3 Geographical application: 

• Issue evaluation
• A decision making enquiry based on a contemporary
• geographical issue 

• Fieldwork
• Two fieldwork enquiries in which students; collect, analyse, present, interpret and evaluate primary data in a physical (coasts) &human (town/city) location. 

ASSESSMENT 

Assessment is by examination at the end of Year 11.  

Unit 1:  1 hour 30 mins (35%) 

 Unit 2:  1 hour 30 mins (35%) 

 Unit 3:  1 hour 15 mins (30%) 

GCSE Specification