Geographical Issues

Your Geographical Issue will take the form of a critical essay in which you summarise and evaluate differing viewpoints on a contemporary geographical topic. To support your preparation, you will engage with a range of sources throughout the year, including web articles, academic journals, podcasts, videos, and blog posts.

These materials will also help to deepen and extend your understanding beyond the Higher Geography course content.

For this week, you are required to read an article titled “Mapping the World’s Glaciers.”

To develop your skills in summarising and critical analysis, you should complete a Geographical Reading Sheet (available on Docs) to help structure your response.

If you require support with referencing, you can consult the Open University guide.

Geographical Study

Over the course of the year, you’ll work your way through different techniques to present, describe and interpret geographical data. These skills will be used in your Geography Study and will also be questioned in the AH Geography exam. 

The materials to learn about these are online and consist of a description of the technique, a challenge question, a worked example and an activity to complete.  Some of this will be completed at home but we will be used to go through the activity and check you have done it correctly. 

For this week, please complete the work on Systems Diagrams and Bipolar Analysis which can be accessed here.