Geography CPD Autumn 2019

Practical strategies for the

classroom

Activity BookletActivity 1: What would your learners do?

Evaluate different strategies that can be used to protect coastlines in the future.

How would you hope learners approach this?

Activity 2: Thinking about different styles of questions (using the same content)

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Evaluate the success of strategies to reduce the risk of flooding in cities.

To what extent have strategies to reduce the risk of flooding in cities been successful?

‘Strategies to reduce the risk of flooding in cities are never successful.’ How far do you agree?

To what extent have initiatives to tackle issues associated with international refugee movements been successful?

 

Activity 3: Question the question

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Would you expect all candidates to unpack all elements of this question?

How would you expect a banded mark scheme for this question to look?

Band Descriptor

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Activity 4: Thinking like a Geographer

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Evaluative question:

Different scales of analysis

Physical and human geography

Short-term issues

Longer-term issues

Different contexts or perspectives

Interactions / links (between places, processes, effects…)

 

Active Revision: Low pressure hazard: Hurricane Dorian 2019

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Causes

Warm oceans >27⁰c Rapid rising air, low pressure Climate change – greater sea surface temperatures strengthens wind and increases rainfall

Consequences

People Environment Economy

1300 missing and feared in Bahamas Extensive flooding in Bahamas Shipping containers destroyed

45% home destroyed or damaged in Farmland and crops destroyed Hotels, farmland and crops destroyed

Active Revision Template

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Causes

Warm oceans >27⁰c Rapid rising air, low pressure Climate change – greater sea surface temperatures strengthens wind and increases rainfall

Consequences

People Environment Economy

1300 missing and feared in Bahamas Extensive flooding in Bahamas Shipping containers destroyed

45% home destroyed or damaged in Farmland and crops destroyed Hotels, farmland and crops destroyed

DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE

DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING

APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Active Revision Low pressure hazard: Hurricane Dorian 2019

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Causes

Warm oceans >27⁰c Rapid rising air, low pressure Climate change – greater sea surface temperatures strengthens wind and increases rainfall

Consequences

People Environment Economy

1300 missing and feared in Bahamas Extensive flooding in Bahamas Shipping containers destroyed

45% home destroyed or damaged in Bahamas

Farmland and crops destroyed Hotels, farmland and crops destroyed

15000 still needed aid two weeks after storm

The poorest communities in the Bahamas most effected

DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE

Describe two impacts of …

State two environmental impacts…

DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING

Explain why low-pressure systems have consequences for people…

Give two reasons why the economy was affected by a low-pressure system you have studied…

APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The impacts on people are always the most severe. To what extent do you

agree?

…………….. the impacts of a low-pressure system you have studied.

The hazards created by low pressure systems pose a greater risk to the

economy than to people. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

There were 1300 people missing so this caused grief and anxiety.Also crops and farms were destroyed so farmers lost their livelyhood.

|Low pressure systems result in heavy rainfall and flooding. This means that homes are destroyed, in the Bahamas this was as high as 45%, therefore people lose their possessions and may end up being displaced. The result of this is that people then may not have access to the essentials such as food, shelter and water/food.

I mostly agree with the statement as impacts from a storm are always worse if people are involved. However, it may depend on the size of the storm and where it hits. In the Bahamas 1300 people are missing and feared dead, this is the worse impact possible as their families will be grieving and still might not know what exactly happened to them. This would cause pressure in the family and community and levels of stress, anxiety and depression may increase. Economic impacts are also really bad as the cost for repairs may take money away from education and health care. However, these economic impacts are actually linked to people too so that makes it worse. Some storms though don’t kill anyone but have a huge cost for repair.

Active Revision: Opportunities and constraints of China’s physical environment

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Opportunities

Resource base Physical background Climate variability

Constraints

Resource base Physical background Climate variability

DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING

Explain how China’s physical environment provides opportunities for

economic development…

Describe two ways in which China’s physical background may constrain

economic development…..

Give two reasons why the vulnerability of the Chinese population to flood and

drought is increasing……

APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

‘China’s physical environment provides more opportunities than constraints to

economic development.’ Discuss

Opportunities

Range of natural minerals e.g. coal, iron ore, pertoleum and gas contributing to industrial development. Huge HEP potential.

Plains of northeast and northern China are fertile and support vast populations

Development of tourism due to varied landscape e.g Tibetan Plateau, Guilin Lakes

Seasonal pattern of rains bring multiple harvest opportunities to southern China (rice crop)

Constraints

Uneven resource distribution, soil erosion on Loess Plateau, desertification in NE, seismic threat (Sichuan), typhoon season, historic flooding, drought in northern basins, sand storms etc.

Introduction – physical environment varies greatly across this vast country → relief can be dividied into QT Plateau, Inner basins and plateaus, plains of east → provides both opportunities and constraints

These vary across space and time Opportunities are greater/more numerous in coastal

areas (flat land and transport links mean that eocnomic differences between coast and interior remain vast due to development of export zones and resources/transport links e.g. Pearl River Delta → (but shrinking)

Constraints are greater/more numerous in inland areas due to lack of transport links (Tibetan Plateau) → this is improving with dev. of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Silk Road etc. and dev. of tourism

Conclusion: Although Chinese government are able to overcome challenges e.g. South-North Water Project → more contraints than opportunities due to vastness and combination of uneven distribution of resources/nat. disasters.

Activity 5: Concept based questions

To what extent is …………………………….. either a sustainable or a globalised place?

Themes □ Economic □ Social/cultural □ Environmental/physical □ Other

Economic ideas

Social/cultural/ other ideas

Environmental or physical ideas

Shorter- or longer-term views

Different contexts or perspectives

Overview, including any linkages

 

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