Geography Aims To understand change, conflict and the key issues which impact on our lives today and will affect our futures tomorrow. Edexcel Specification AS - Unit 1: Global Challenges World at Risk Trends, patterns, challenge of hazards in the future. Climate change: the causes, global impacts and options for the future. Going Global The challenge of the Globalizing World Assessment – 1 ½ hour exam
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Unit 2: Geographical Investigations (fieldwork) Crowded Coasts and Rebranding are contempory issues that are studied in the classroom and on two fieldtrips. A residential fieldtrip to Iceland and a day trip to East London Olympic site. leading to a 1 ¼ hour exam. Assessment – 1 ¼ hour exam Edexcel Specification A2 - Unit 3: Contested Planet 6 compulsory mini topics are covered – energy security, water conflicts, biodiversity under threat, superpower geography, bridging the development gap, the technological fix. Assessment – 2 ½ hour exam - Unit 4: Geographical Research students complete an in depth research about a contemporary issue. Assessment – 1 ½ hour exam