GEOGRAPHY

Geography is one of the most interesting and relevant courses you can study. Issues such as climate change, migration, the environment and social cohesion are at the forefront of the political agenda. Student Geographers develop a wide range of skills including data handling, problem solving, critical evaluation and field work skills.

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The geography curriculum at Leigh Academy Tonbridge holds the belief that there are few things more fundamental than learning about “the earth as our home.” For that reason our curriculum could be summarized as: “Geography is the study of the earth as a home to humankind” (Johnson, 1985). Our curriculum allows pupils to analyse our environment and human activity on earth, in order to draw their own conclusions about the state of the planet and its future.

Module 1: Becoming a Geographer
Module 2: Global Issues
Module 3: Population and Migration
Module 4: Weather and Climate
Module 5: What is the economy?
Module 6: Local place

Module 1: Tectonics
Module 2: Earth as a natural resource
Module 3: Biomes and Rainforests
Module 4: Urbanisation
Module 5: Rivers
Module 6: Polar regions and the Taiga

Module 1: Atmospheric Hazards
Module 2: Urbanisation
Module 3: Climate Change
Module 4: Development
Module 5: India Case Study
Module 6: Coasts

Module 1: Hazardous Earth
Module 2: Development
Module 3: Challenges of an urbanising world
Module 4: UK evolving physical landscape. Rivers & Coasts
Module 5: Geographical investigations – Coastal fieldwork.
Module 6: People and the biosphere

Module 1: UK evolving human landscapes
Module 2: Forests under threat
Module 3: Consuming energy resources
Module 4: Geographical investigations – Urban fieldwork (London)
Module 5: Revision
Module 6: Exams

Module 1: Tectonics and Globalisation
Module 2: Tectonics and Globalisation
Module 3: Diverse Places and Coasts
Module 4: Diverse Places and Coasts
Module 5: Diverse places and Water
Module 6: Carbon and Water

Module 1: Carbon and NEA
Module 2: Super powers and NEA
Module 3: Superpowers and Migration, identity and sovereignty
Module 4: Paper 3 and Migration, identity and sovereignty
Modules 5 & 6: Revision

Geography is a subject which holds the key to our future.
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