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GCE 2008 Geography. GCE 2008 Geography . Why choose Edexcel?. This new GCE Geography specification builds on the strengths of current specifications, namely Edexcel GCE Geography specification A (8214/9214) and Edexcel GCE Geography specification B (8215/9215).
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Why choose Edexcel?
- This new GCE Geography specification builds on the strengths of current specifications, namely Edexcel GCE Geography specification A (8214/9214) and Edexcel GCE Geography specification B (8215/9215).
- The Specification is brand new and exciting
- The content recognizes the need to engage with students and challenge them
- The geography is issues and enquiry based and expects students to research and question
- Fieldwork is integral, as are skills needed in higher education
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- Guiding issues
- Evidence of assessment overload, especially at AS
- Declining numbers/competition from newer subjects
- Evidence of a repeated curriculum
- Changing global geography, not reflected by old specifications
- A need for renewal, recognised in the Geography Action Plan
- The ‘stretch and challenge’ agenda
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- Guiding principles
- AS should be stimulating and inspiring
- A2 should be challenging and questioning
- The loss of coursework should not lead to a loss of fieldwork
- A balance of local, global and regional geographies
- Geography should be current and ‘real’, but set in historical and theoretical contexts
- Choice should be present at AS and A2
- Quality resources should be available to teachers at an early stage
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Who was involved?
Extensive survey of HE views
Student surveys and focus groups
Centre surveys and teacher focus groups
The FSC’s Juniper Hall: new spec. birthplace
Chief examiners and Principal examiners from both Spec A and B
Edexcel Geography support team (revisers, subject officers)
Expert input:
Dr Rita Gardiner (RGS)
David Lambert (GA)
Eleanor Rawling
Vivien Pointon
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What are the key changes?
- 1 new specification; not an amalgam of A and B
- 4 units, rather than 6
- No coursework – completely exam tested
- Reduction in assessment burden on candidates
- Refreshed content
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AS Unit 1 – Global Challenges
Global hazards, global hazard trends, global hazard patterns
Climate change and its causes, global warming impacts and options
The challenge of global hazards for the future
WORLDat RISK
Globalisation, global groupings, global networks
Population and roots, on the move, world cities
The challenge of a globalising world
GOING GLOBAL
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Assessment for Unit 1 – Global Challenges
- 1 ½ hour examination including resource booklet
- Combination of:
- data response / short questions
- objective items
- longer / guided essay questions
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(a) Which EU country was the source of most immigrants to the UK? (1)
(i) Suggest reasons for this flow. (2)
(b) Which EU country was the destination for most UK emigration? (1)
(i) Suggest reasons for this flow. (2)
(c) Which of the following population movements is best described as economic migration?
Tick the most appropriate box
People forced to leave a country to escape from famine
Those who arrive claiming to be victims of persecution
People travelling abroad to find work elsewhere
People entering a country unofficially
Those who retire to ‘a place in the sun’
(1)
Using Figure 4(b):
(d) Explain why the UK is a ‘global hub’ for the movement of people.
(4)
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Assessment for Unit 1: data response
Figure 4(b)
Figure 4(a)
Migrations to and from the EU
UK customers are generally happy but some businesses and workers are less pleased
Millions of Chinese people and their government support this venture
Maersk shipping lines has offices in 150 countries, and 500 large container ships
Critics of this world-wide commercial activity see this as ‘globalisation gone mad’
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- 10. Study Figure 10.
- Suggest why the various groups shown hold differing views about this global trade (10)
- (b) Explain how people can manage the environmental and social costs of globalisation for a better world. (15)
Assessment for Unit 1: guided essays
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AS Unit 2 – Geographical Investigations
EXTREME WEATHER: extreme weather watch, extreme impacts, increasing risks, management
OR
CROWDED COASTS: competition for coasts, coping with pressure, increasing risks, management
PHYSICAL
UNEQUAL SPACES: Recognising inequality, inequality for whom?, managing urban and rural inequality
OR
REBRANDING PLACES: time to rebrand, rebranding strategies, managing rural and urban rebranding
HUMAN
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Assessment for Unit 2 – Geographical Investigations
- 1 hour examination including resource booklet
- 2 longer response questions
- Questions in three parts:
- data response
- investigation skills
- impacts/management issues
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Assessment for Unit 2 –data response
- (a)Suggest some of the physical and economic factors that may have made Florida a crowded coast. (10)
- (b) Using named examples, examine some of the environmental costs of coastal developments such as those shown in Florida. (10)
- (c) Describe and explain a programme of fieldwork and research you would use to investigate the impacts of either coastal erosion or coastal flooding, along a stretch of coastline. (15)
- TOTAL 35 marks
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A2 Unit 3 – Contested Planet
Over-arching themes
The planet is ‘contested’ in a variety of ways, for example:
Increasing demands on a diminishing resource base.
Conflicting over the use of resources versus their protection.
Questions of economic development and inequality.
Should the aim be to make current patterns of consumption more sustainable, or are more radical actions needed?
Is technological development the solution to problems of resource depletion and environmental degradation, or it is part of the problem?
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Organisation of Unit 3
- Providing resources:
- the costs and problems of consumption; management options and challenges
- Unequal patterns of consumption:
- poverty – v - wealth
- The role of technology:
- In overcoming resource scarcity: inequality and resource management issues.
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A2 Unit 3 – Contested Planet
Energy demand, supply, impacts of energy security, the future of energy supply
Energy Security
Geography of water supply, risks of water insecurity, water conflicts and the future
Water Conflicts
Defining biodiversity, what threatens biodiversity, management of threats
Biodiversity under Threat
Superpowers and geopolitics, impacts and influence of superpower economies, superpower change and futures
Superpower Geographies
Causes, implications at different scales, reducing the development gap
Bridging the Development Gap
Inequalities in access to technology, technology and development, technology and the planet’s future
The Technological Fix
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Assessment for Unit 3 – Contested Planet
- 2½hour examination including resource booklet
- Pre-released synoptic materials
- Section A – 2 extended essay questions
- Section B – 3 synoptic short essay style questions
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Assessment for Unit 3: extended essays
- Explain the pattern of alien species invasions, and suggest the possible impacts of alien species on ecosystems
- (15)
- (b) Evaluate the relative importance of global and local threats to one named global ecosystem.
- (15)
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A2 Unit 4 – Geographical Research
Choice for centres and candidates
Physical and Human options, but not a physical and human divide
Some ‘old favourites’ renewed (tectonic hazards)
Some new topics (cultural diversity / glaciation)
Research
Flexibility in teaching and learning
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A2 Unit 4 – Geographical Research
Hazards and causes, physical impacts, human impacts, hazard response and the future
Tectonic activity and hazards
Location, climatic processes and their causes, landforms and landscapes, glaciation, challenges, opportunities and management
Cold Environments
Feast or famine, causes of food supply inequalities, desertification and life at the margins, management and security
Life on the margins and food supply
Definition and value of culture, spatial cultural variations, impact of globalization, cultural attitudes and the environment
The world of cultural diversity
Health risks, complex causes, pollution and health risk links, managing health risks
Pollution and Human Health at Risk
Growth of leisure and tourism landscapes, fragility of rural landscapes, impact on rural landscapes, management
Consuming the rural landscape
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Assessment for Unit 4 – Geographical Research
- 1½hour examination
- Pre-released materials
- (a research steer)
- 1 long report question relating to chosen option study
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A2 Unit 4 – Geographical Research
OPTION 1: Tectonic activity and hazards
The physical causes of tectonic hazards and responses to them
- OPTION 1: Tectonic activity and hazards
- Question 1
- Discuss the relationship between the nature of tectonic hazards and human responses to them.
- (70)
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human health at risk
The need for international action
OPTION 5: Pollution and Human health at risk
Question 5
Explain why international initiatives are increasingly needed to cope with the risks of disease and pollution. (70)
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Electronic, interactive
version of the specification
Content easy to evaluate
and discuss
Free inside the specification
in September 2007
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GCE 2008 – How do I Keep Up to Date?
- Keep informed – sign up for email alerts on:
- www.edexcel.org.uk/gce2008
- Regional Office and Team Support
- Keep in touch :
- GCE enquiries – telephone 0844 576 0025
- ‘Ask the Expert’ service www.edexcel.org.uk/about/ask
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