Starting AS level

[Stefan Langford]

Hello everyone - Our school is building a Sixth Form next summer and we are offering A level Geography so I am trying to start the course from scratch! Has anyone got AS schemes to share or ideas for fieldwork? I would really appreciate any help
Stefan

[Helen Nurton]

You are welcome to my population and Health schemes if you want. The SOW and all the resources are on the relevant threads (well, the links to them are - they are too big to post here)

[Stefan Langford]

That would be great Helen thank you - do you just attach them to your next reply?

[Stefan Langford]

Helen can you tell me where I can find your Population scheme?
thanks very much

[Catherine]

My rivers, health and energy issues stuff is all on here - see the relevant strands on the forum.

[Anne Logie]

You need to look in the Discussion named 'AS - Unit 1 (Physical and Human Geography)'

[Stefan Langford]

Thank you Anne I'm new!

[Helen Nurton]

Sorry Stefan - only just checked this thread again. Presume you've found them now but
can be found at
www.4shared.com/dir/2523168/ea791314/sharing.html
(when I say 'my' they aren't all produced by me!)
password SLN

Helen

[Stefan Langford]

Thanks Helen - can you just browse my AS outline that I'm planning for next Sept. It is pretty straightforward but I would appreciate another pair of eyes and any pointers
thanks
stefan

[Helen Nurton]

Stefan - seems fine to me. Couple of points (that you may already have thought of!)
1. How / where are you going to cover the skills? You don't need to do them separately of course but, for example, in our school, in AS one teacher had 4 lessons a fortnight and the other had 5 so the one who had 5 made sure he covered more of the skills.
Which leads me to point 2 - Last year we had a structure very much like yours - only I had 4 lessons a fortnight for human and the physical geog teacher had 5 lessons a fortnight so it was a squeeze for me to cover the course (particularly when you take other things into account that make them miss lessons - like House Drama, Inset days etc). Just a thought for the more detailed planning stage.
Helen

[Stefan Langford]

Thank you Helen - I will look carefully at that. I guess I was thinking the Rivers field work write up would cover some skills, and the rest would be incorporated within lessons - like pop density maps for pop unit and line graphs etc for disease spreading in Health unit - does this seem right?

[Helen Nurton]

Yes, that seems right- maybe just me but I sometimes think you've got to be a bit specific / explicit or the skills can get a bit lost in the content!