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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