Kerboodle

All GCSE Geographers now have access to Kerboodle. This is an excellent resource full of interactive revision exercises and exam practice.  Your teachers will be setting you practise tests on Kerboodle as well.  Make sure you are using this site to help you with your revision.

Year 10s get to grips with maps in Japanese!

On Monday 26th September all year 10 GCSE geographers took part in a workshop run by the British Cartographic Society.  The challenge was to make a map to be used in the rescue effort after the Japanese earthquake in March 2011.  This was made that little bit harder by the maps being in Japanese and there being no Japanese speakers in the hall!

The workshop was a part of the London Mapping Festival which was launched in June 2011 and runs all year. The workshop team was made up of professional cartographers, who gave up a day's work to come and work with Lampton geographers.  All of the workshop facilitators were really impressed with students - commenting on how engaged they were with the tasks and how well they tackled the challenge.  The results will come through in the next couple of weeks.  Watch this space!

GCSE Geography

At GCSE we follow the AQA A syllabus.  This means students will study Physical Geography in Year 10 and Human Geography in Year 11. 

In Year 10 students will study 3 of the following topics:
1) The Restless Earth
2) Challenge of Weather and Climate
3) Water on the Land
4) The Coastal Zone
5) Ice on the Land

In Year 11 students will study 3 of the following topics:
1) Population Change
2) Globalisation
3) Tourism
4) The Development Gap
5) Changing Urban Environments

Both Physical and Human units will end in an exam worth 37.5% of the Geography GCSE.

Students will also be required to complete a controlled assessment worth 25% of the Geography GCSE, content of which will vary each year.