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GCE 2008 Geography
GCE 2008
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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• 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
Why choose Edexcel?
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• Evidence of assessment overload, especially at AS
• Declining numbers/competition from newer subjects
• Evidence of a repeated curriculum
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• Changing global geography, not reflected by old specifications
• A need for renewal, recognised in the Geography Action Plan
• The ‘stretch and challenge’ agenda
Guiding issues
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• 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
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• 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
Guiding principles
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Who was involved?
Student surveys and focus groups
Centre surveys and teacher focus
groups
Extensive survey of HE
views
Expert input:Dr Rita Gardiner (RGS)
David Lambert (GA)Eleanor RawlingVivien Pointon
Chief examiners and Principal
examiners from both Spec A and B
Edexcel Geography support team
(revisers, subject officers)
The FSC’s Juniper Hall: new spec. birthplace
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• 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
GCE 2008 Geography What are the key changes?
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WORLD at RISK
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
GOING GLOBAL
Globalisation, global groupings, global networks
Population and roots, on the move, world cities
The challenge of a globalising world
AS Unit 1 – Global Challenges
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GCE 2008 Geography 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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Using Figure 4(a):
(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 boxPeople forced to leave a country to escape from
famineThose who arrive claiming to be victims of
persecutionPeople travelling abroad to find work elsewherePeople entering a country unofficiallyThose 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)(11 marks)
Figure 4(a)
Migrations to and from the EU
GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 1: data responseFigure 4(b)
GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 1: guided essays
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10. Study Figure 10.
(a) 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)
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UK customers are generally happy but some businesses and workers are less pleased
Millions of Chinese people and their government support this ventureMaersk 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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PHYSICAL
EXTREME WEATHER: extreme weather watch, extreme impacts,
increasing risks, managementOR
CROWDED COASTS: competition for coasts, coping with pressure, increasing
risks, management
HUMAN
UNEQUAL SPACES: Recognising inequality, inequality for whom?,
managing urban and rural inequalityOR
REBRANDING PLACES: time to rebrand, rebranding strategies,
managing rural and urban rebranding
AS Unit 2 – Geographical Investigations
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GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 2 – Geographical Investigations
1 hour examination including resource booklet
2 longer response questionsQuestions in three parts:
• data response• investigation skills• impacts/management issues
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GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 2 – data response
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(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 marksSlide 14
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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?
A2 Unit 3 – Contested Planet
Over-arching themes
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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.
GCE 2008 Geography Organisation of Unit 3
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FUTURES ACTIONS
PLAYERS
Synoptic
Themes
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A2 Unit 3 – Contested Planet
Energy demand, supply, impacts of energy security, the future of energy supply
Energy Security
Water Conflicts Geography of water supply, risks of water insecurity, water conflicts and the future
Biodiversity under ThreatDefining biodiversity, what threatens biodiversity, management of threats
Superpower GeographiesSuperpowers and geopolitics, impacts and influence of superpower economies, superpower change and futures
Causes, implications at different scales, reducing the development gap
Inequalities in access to technology, technology and development, technology and the planet’s future
Bridging the Development Gap
The Technological Fix
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GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 3 – Contested Planet
2½ hour 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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A2 Unit 3 – Contested Planet
Paper overview
Q5 Development
Q4 Superpowers Q3 Biodiversity
Q2 Energy
Q1 Water
Q6 a-cSynoptic
TECHNOLOGICAL FIX
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Assessment for Unit 3: extended essays
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(a) 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
Health risks, complex causes, pollution and health risk links, managing health risks
Pollution and Human Health at Risk
Consuming the rural landscape
Growth of leisure and tourism landscapes, fragility of rural landscapes, impact on rural landscapes, management
Definition and value of culture, spatial cultural variations, impact of globalization, cultural attitudes and the environment
Feast or famine, causes of food supply inequalities, desertification and life at the margins, management and security
Location, climatic processes and their causes, landforms and landscapes, glaciation, challenges, opportunities and management
Hazards and causes, physical impacts, human impacts, hazard response and the future
Tectonic activity and hazards
Cold Environments
Life on the margins and food supply
The world of cultural diversity
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GCE 2008 Geography Assessment for Unit 4 – Geographical Research
1½ hour 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 5: Pollution and Human health at risk
The need for international action
OPTION 1: Tectonic activity and hazards
Question 1Discuss the relationship between the nature of tectonic hazards and human responses to them.
(70)
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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GCE 2008 – e-Spec
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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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