This document provides information about a GCSE geography course, including expectations, rules for presentation of work, unit outlines, assessment details, and homework. It introduces the difference between weather and climate. The course is divided into three units covering physical processes, challenges of the built environment, and uneven development. Assessment includes exams and a controlled assessment. Homework is due on September 11th involving a factfile on a weather event. Keywords, starter questions, and definitions are provided for a lesson on the difference between weather and climate.

2. Welcome to GCSE Geography

3. Name
Mr Rogers Geography
Unit 1
WJEC B 2016 Exam
Course Outline – Inside flap of folder
Banned word – back of folder

4. Write – What do you expect of me as a teacher? Write one thing I should know
about you.

5. Banned Words
• People
• Things
• It / It’s
• A lot
• Pollution
• Stuff
• Up, down, left, right
• Bottom, Top
Humanities presentation of work rules
You will need to use your exercise book to revise for tests and
exams.
Messy and unclear presentation will make it very difficult for you
to do this.
For a set of good revision notes you need to follow these
presentation rules every lesson:
1. Put the date of the lesson in the margin
2. Write the title, and underline it using a ruler.
3. Write in blue or black pen only
4. Diagrams and drawings should be in pencil
5. When drawing charts etc, use a ruler for straight lines.
6. Spelling corrections (‘SP’ in margin) should be correctly
written out x3

6. Year 10
Unit 1Challenges and Interaction in Geography
30% of final Mark
Theme 1 – Physical Processes and Relationship
between people and Environments (15%)
Theme 2 – Challenges of Living in a Built Environment

7. Year 11
Unit 2: Development and Problem Solving Geography
Theme 3: Uneven development snd Sustainable Environments (15%)
Problem Solving Geography (30%)
Unit 3: Controlled Assessment (25%)

8. Assessment:
Unit 1 – Written Paper : 1 hour worth 30%
Unit 2 – Written Paper: 2 hours worth 45%
Unit 3 – Controlled Assessment worth 25%

9. Help!
drogers@patchamschool.org.uk
www.classroomgeography.blogspot.com
http://pastpapers.download.wjec.co.uk/
Workshop Wednesday – my office in the Warmedene by S6

10. Homework Due Thursday 11th September
Produce a factfile of an interesting weather event. How
did the event affect people?
Email to drogers@patchamschool.org.uk

12. What is the difference between
weather and climate?
Aims
• To understand the difference between
weather and climate.
Keywords
• Weather
• Climate
• Atmosphere

13. Starter: What would be the challenges of
living at -35oC?

14. PEEL : holding it all together
POINT
EVIDENCE
EXPLAIN
LINK
e.g. Earthquakes
are mostly found
along tectonic
plate boundaries
e.g. Such as along
the western coast of
the USA where the
North American &
Pacific plates meet
e.g. This is because at
tectonic plate
boundaries, stress
and friction builds up
due to convergent &
divergent movement
e.g. Therefore you are
more likely to find
earthquakes when the
stress builds too much,
whereas in areas away
from plate boundaries
there are likely to be
fewer earthquakes.
Add evidence Add theory Use connectives
- -> Increasingly complex answers - ->

15. Define 'weather'
Write your own definition for weather.
The state of the atmosphere at a given
time and place, with respect to variables
such as temperature, moisture, wind
velocity, and barometric pressure.

16. Climate?
The average weather over long periods of
time

17. Climate is what we expect.
Weather is what we get.

18. ‘Generally speaking, polar travel would
be quite pleasant if one didn’t have to
breathe.’ Sir Ranulph Fiennes