Autumn

Spring 

Summer

The UK

Content: Map and graph skills, sustainability, local geographies, GIS, tourism, managing natural environments, erosion, urban management, rivers and fluvial processes, infiltration fieldwork

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Africa

Content: Development, urbanisation, trade, conflict, resource management, tourism, culture, volcanic hazards and processes, the tropical rainforest biome, managing rivers

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Oceania

Content: Underwater biomes, managing climate change, ecosystems and adaptations, wildfire natural hazards, the water cycle, glaciation, volcanic tourism, population management, development 

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04 

Autumn 

Spring 

Summer

Europe

Content: Mapping population, megacities, globalisation, tectonics, coastal processes and landforms, resource management, sustainability, glacial tourism, flood risk management, weather and climate, microclimate fieldwork

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Antarctica

Content: Geological time, volcanic types, climate graphs, extreme weather hazards, ecosystems, conservation and sustainability, wilderness, global commons and international cooperation, tourism

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

South America

Content: Colonisation, TRF and hot desert environments, earthquake causes and impacts, evolution and biodiversity, illegal trade, development, sustainability, resource management

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Autumn

Spring

Summer

North America

Content: Culture in the Arctic, climate change, migration, tourism, development, global superpowers, TNCs, earthquakes and supervolcanoes , river processes and landforms, resource management, coastal processes

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Global News

Content: An area of study allowing students to investigate how geography is in our global lives.

Wider links: Local geography, place and space A level links, geo politics

Project 

Content: Students work in groups to put together a proposal for the next world cup. Focussed on working at home.

Asia

Content: Climate change, sustainability, monsoon hazards, the Middle East, resource management, geopolitics, tsunamis, mountains, global superpowers

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Resources

AQA Human geography – Paper 2 challenges in the human environment

Students study the UK access to resources including food, water, and energy. Students then complete an in-depth study of water projects in an NEE and LIC

Living world

AQA Physical geography Paper 1: Living with the physical environment

Students study the different global biomes before taking a closer look at hot deserts and the tropical rainforest environment.

Weather Hazards

AQA Physical geography Paper 1: Living with the physical environment

Students study the changing meteorological pattern of the UK and tropical storms around the world including a case study

Tectonic Hazards

AQA Physical geography Paper 1: Living with the physical environment

Students contrast the impacts and responses to a tectonic hazard in an HIC and LIC

Coasts and Rivers

AQA Physical geography Paper 1: Living with the physical environment

Along with a trip to the Holderness coast students study the coastline of the UK and focus upon erosional and depositional landforms found along our shores and rivers.

Fieldwork (Unseen and trip)

EOY Revision and FULL Paper 1+3

AQA Paper 3 geographical application

Students undertake fieldwork and complete a write up of activities and explore the notion of data in the field.

Autumn/ Spring

Summer

Urbanisation

AQA Human geography – Paper 2 challenges in the human environment

Students explore global changes in our cities and tows before contrasting a city in the UK with a city in an emerging economy

Changing Economic World

AQA Human geography – Paper 2 challenges in the human environment

Students explore the changing political and economic world around us before comparing the UK with an NEE assessing global balances in development and sustainability

Pre-release/ Revision

N/A