Bridging the Gap: GCSE to A Level Geography
The transition to A Level can be challenging, especially if students didn't study some topics at GCSE. This independent 'knowledge-booster' will help students to "bridge the gap!"
Student-led workbook for A Level geographers, introducing the core topics central to all specifications. A wide range of engaging activities and comprehension tasks to help students to:
- Consolidate and develop existing knowledge
- Gain confidence in new or unfamiliar topic areas, from fundamentals to technical terms
GCSE Teacher?
- Great for G&T students towards the end of the GCSE to continue to push them
- A fantastic parting gift to GCSE students going on to do A Level to use over the summer holidays!
A Level Teacher?
- Identify your pupils' areas of weakness early using student self-diagnostic overviews
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Prepare your students for the higher demands of A Level
– for all students or just those looking for support in particular topic areas
- Water and Carbon Cycles
- Landscape systems
- Drylands / Coasts / Glacial
- Global Systems & Global Governance
- Changing Place; Changing Places
Includes:
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Self-diagnostic topic overviews
- Assess existing knowledge and understanding from GCSE…
- … and identify any 'gaps' in A Level subject content
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Topic-by-topic Activity Chapters
- Linked comprehension tasks to develop deeper understanding of topic content
- Data and image interpretation to introduce key geographical patterns and processes
- Statistical questioning to revise and build upon key areas of the Skills Checklist
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Fieldwork Section
- Bridging the gap from GCSE 1-day class trips to multi-day trips and extended individual research at A Level
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Extended Writing Support
- Transitioning from extended GCSE questions to the more challenging essays of A Level!
Perfect support for those students looking to catch up over (or after!) the long summer break!
What do teachers say about this resource? (10760)
This is a resource that would be helpful for the transition from GCSE to A level, particularly an introduction to the depth of content and concepts at A level.
A wide variety of activities that would develop graphical and statistical skills in addition to understanding new concepts [students] would not have covered during GCSE.
The resource provides an introduction to the extensive content and concepts to be studied at A level. Pupils may have a better understanding of the expectations and be better prepared. For pupils taking A level Geography for the first time, this seems to be a useful resource.
Keywords
- A Level AQA Geography (7037)
- A Level Edexcel Geography (9GE0)
- A Level OCR Geography (H481)
- Bridging the Gap: GCSE to A Level Geography
- Changing Place; Changing Places
- Coasts
- Drylands
- GCSE AQA Geography (8035)
- GCSE Edexcel A Geography (1GA0)
- GCSE Edexcel B Geography (1GB0)
- GCSE Eduqas A Geography (C111)
- GCSE OCR B Geography (J384)
- Geographical Skills
- Geography Fieldwork
- Geography Independent Investigation
- Glacial
- Global Systems & Global Governance
- Landscape systems
- Tectonic Hazards
- Water and Carbon Cycles