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

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

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

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

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

Asia  

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

Skills: A01, A02, A03 & A04

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

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 projects in an NEE and LIC

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.

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

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

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

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