Geography in EE 2009-10
Teacher Dave Plowright

Aims
to prepare the students for the IGCSE examination in Geography. Thus the scheme of work is based on the recommended syllabus and is taught as a 2 year rotating scheme of work.

Students will learn to:
-Describe and explain the growth of the world’s population and associated problems.
- Identify and explain the different patterns of pop.growth in the world and the consequences of these patterns.
-Show an understanding of the causes and consequences of over and underpopulation.
-Recognise the causes and effects of shortages of food and describe solutions to this problem.
-Describe and explain the factors that influence the size, growth and function of urban and rural settlements.
-Describe the problems associated with this growth through fieldwork in CPH and suggest solutions to the problems of urban sprawl.
-Describe weathering, river and marine processes (including the formation of coral) and explain how they create landscapes.
-Demonstrate that the natural environment presents hazards and offers opportunities for human activities….using contemporary examples
-Describe and explain how the proportions employed in Primary Industry differ in LEDCs and MEDCs and may change with time and levels of development.
-Define development.
-Investigate world poverty its causes and suggest what governments and individuals can do to support development.
-Understand the importance of sustainable development and how everyone from themselves to isolated communites to multinational companies must work to-gether .

Students will investigate how human activities cause constant changes to the planet and how they, to secure their future, must think in terms of all developments being sustainable.
They will continually identify areas at risk and describe attempts to maintain conserve and improve the quality of the environment. They will focus on soil erosion, global warming and water, air, noise and visual pollution.

Textbooks: The Wider World by Waugh, Longman Geog. For IGCSE