AWARD RECEIVED
National 3 Geography is an SVQF Level 3 course.
National 4 Geography is an SVQF Level 4 course. 

 

COURSE CONTENT –What will I learn?
There are three units (topics) for National 3 and 4:  

Unit 1 – Physical Geography

• Rivers – how rivers are formed, problems and management
• Weather – why Britain experiences such varied weather; weather circles

Unit 2 – Human Geography

• Population – why more people live in some parts of the world than others.
• Urban – shanty towns in developing countries, housing in the developing world.
• Rural – changes in farming in the UK; comparing farming in the UK and India.

Unit 3 – Global Geography

• Health – cholera: where it occurs, why you get it, how you feel when you have it, and how to prevent and treat it.

In all units, we cover key skills that are useful for Geography but also important for later life, like reading different kinds of maps, understanding diagrams and graphs, writing reports etc.