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GCSE Geography Information evening for parents
Which course?
• AQA Geography specification ‘A’ http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-a-9030
• Two exams (37.5% each) + Controlled Assessment (25%)
Course structure
• Paper 1 Physical Geography – Restless Earth (Qn 1)– Water on the Land (Qn
5)– Ice on the Land (Qn 6)
• Exam length 1 hour 30 minutes– Each question 30
minutes
• Paper 2 Human Geography – Population change (Qn
1)– Changing urban
environments (Qn 2)– Tourism (Qn 6)
• Exam length 1 hour 30 minutes– Each question 30
minutes
What does your child have?• Physical geography exercise book(s)• Human geography exercise book(s)• Text book
Unit 1 – Physical GeographyUnit 2 – Human Geography
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What else might you be persuaded to buy to support their revision?
The Cone of Learning
Now what?
• Encouraging your child to make use of the text book; • Creating flash cards with key terms in the text book and testing
these; • Creating flow diagrams of physical landforms (to help with
sequencing); • Drawing diagrams with annotations to explain processes;• Identifying land forms / features from photographs• Encouraging your child to talk about their case studies and
asking 'so what?' to help them develop/clarify their ideas/understanding;
• Developing map skills - using maps generated from digimap
Digimap
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What did last year’s students say?