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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 [email protected]
• Phone Jon on 020 7010 2185
• Follow Jon on Twitter @GeogAdvisor
Geography Subject Advisor
