PiXL Geography Conference David Holmes and Bob Digby

PiXL Geography Conference

David Holmes and Bob Digby

Aims and objectives

• Reviewing your initial teaching of the course and looking forward

• Understanding how to manage the content requirements in the time available

• Understanding the assessment requirements including the extended response questions

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Future proofing our young people

• Our aim is to support your students in becoming confident, capable and successful geographers.

• These tools and materials will nurture your students’ abilities to:

ask geographical questions,

learn about places, patterns and processes,

use, interpret and analyse geographical data,

and use geographical terminology confidently in their

writing.

Encouraging high quality geography

Two specifications – a comparison

Same Different

• Three components

• A UK paper

• Fieldwork in one paper

• Integrated geographical skills

• Assessment weighting, marks and exam time

• Fieldwork environments

• Specification A organised by domain; B organised by scale

• Specification B has integrated fieldwork questions

• Specification B with a synoptic DME; A with a mini UK synoptic

• Content: Glaciated landscapes in specification A, Tectonics in specification B

Overview of GCSE Geography A

Overview of GCSE Geography B

Assessment objectives

Command words and marks

Our assessment

guide is available to download from the Pearson

qualifications website.

Command words and LBMS in extended writing

A01 AO2 AO3 AO4 Marks

Geography A and B:

Assess (fieldwork) 4 4 8

Evaluate (fieldwork) 4 4 8

Assess (DME) 4 4 8

Evaluate (DME) 4 4 8

Assess 4 4 8

Evaluate 4 4 8

Resource + Assess 4 4 8

Resource + Evaluate 4 4 8

Geography A only:

Examine 4 4 8

UK Challenges - Discuss 4 4 4 12

Geography B only:

DME Justify 4 4 4 12

Distilling content (1)

How do you teach this in 3 lessons!

Distilling content (2)

In the Specification A SAMs there isn’t an 8 mark question about key idea 1.3 on its own.

In the SAMs parts a, b and c are assessed by

short open response

questions with a maximum

mark tariff of 2 marks

Tackling the 8 mark AO3/AO4 questions

Activity 1A - A04 skills practice

Delegate activity: Can you tease the AO4 information from this resource?

Source: David Holmes / Making Geography Matter

Activity 1bDeveloping AO3 & AO4

Analysis ‘Pick the information apart’

Interpretation ‘Come up with some explanations’

Evaluation ‘Make evidenced judgements’

Tackling the 8 mark AO2/AO3 questions

Split into specification

A and B as there are different questions

Activity 1c – Reviewing student responses

Paper 2, Question 2f

GCSE Geography A

GCSE Geography B

Paper 1, Question 1f

Paper 1, Question 2f

Mark scheme for 8 markAO2/AO3 questions

Please visit the Pearson qualifications website where we have over

70 support materials written specifically for Edexcel GCSE

Geography A and B.

● Specimen papers

● Maths for Geographers guide

● Examiner marked student exemplars

● Detailed topic booklets and schemes of work for every topic

● Fieldwork guides

Find out more about the published resources available to support

teaching Edexcel GCSE Geography A and B.

Supporting your teaching

Published resources

Expert support every step of the way from our Geography

Subject Advisor, Jon Wolton

• E-mail teachinggeography@pearson.com

• Phone Jon on 020 7010 2185

• Follow Jon on Twitter @GeogAdvisor

Geography Subject Advisor