Curriculum Relevance


Programme 1 GCSE

  • Car manufacturing location - the factors involved.
  • Principles of economic development in disadvantaged regions.
  • The unfavourable physical and social factors which can lead to emigration and economic decline.
  • The 'multiplier effect' of large-scale projects.
Scottish Standard Grade
  • Schemes for economic development.
  • The viability of manufacturing industry.
  • The effects of harsh physical environments.
Programme 2 GCSE
  • Hi-tech industrial growth in MEDCs.
  • Flexibility of labour within the EU.
  • The shifting regional pattern of economic development within Italy - an MEDC.

Scottish Standard Grade

  • Factors affecting viability of manufacturing.
  • Consequences of economic change.
Programme 3 GCSE
  • Coverage of a European country.
GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade
  • Physical characteristics of high mountains - distinctive relief and climate in the Alps.
  • Importance of glacial landforms and snow cover to winter sports activities.
  • The significance of isolation and accessibility in economic development.
  • Tourism based on winter sports: the social and environmental costs of success.
Programme 4 GCSE
  • Coverage of an EU country.
GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade
  • Influence of climate and relief on agricultural development.
  • Importance of access to markets and transport costs.
  • Traditional life and economic activity in remote regions, and the influence of forces for change.
  • Physical and human contrasts between two regions in the same country.
Programme 5 GCSE
  • Factors influencing industrial growth, decline and regeneration.
  • Regional characteristics within a country.
  • Causes and effects of migration.
Scottish Standard Grade
  • The viability of manufacturing industry.
  • Social and environmental consequences of economic change.
  • Population structure.
  • Trade as a link with other countries.

Scotland

Standard Grade Geography

May support the Study Themes: The Physical Environment; The Human Environment; International Issues in the UK/ Western Europe Areal Context.

Higher Still Geography

May support:

  • Intermediate 1 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
  • Intermediate 2 Geography Mandatory Unit: People and the Environment: Europe.
  • Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Physical.
  • Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 1: Geography: Core (H) – Human: (a) Population geography; (b) Rural geography; (c) Industrial geography; (d) Urban geography.
  • Higher Geography Mandatory Unit 2: Geography: Applications (H), in particular: Group 2 Application (d) Urban change and its management – areal context – two urban concentrations – one from a developed country; (e) European regional inequalities – aerial context – European Union with particular reference to two of its member states, one of which must be the United Kingdom.



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