Geography coursework makes up 20% of your overall A Level grade, so its important and it can be a way to boost your grade up if you are not great at exams. And choosing the topic can definitely be hard! Initially, don’t worry about coming up with an exact title, come up with an idea, make a mind map of what sub-questions you would have and how you would collect data. When this is done decide on a title. You should also check with your teachers if the topic you have chosen is appropriate and fits within your specification - I know it’s the summer holidays but most teachers probably won’t mind, mine have all said they wouldn’t mind if we emailed them over the summer. What you need to think about: · Your NEA must link to the specification of your exam board. · Can you link your other subjects into your coursework? For example; if you do media can you do a topic about the repr...
Disclaimer: Changing places is a topic which very closely relies on case studies. As each school will be covering different case studies (apart from case studies on large urban centres e.g. Liverpool) I will not be including case studies apart from when it is vital to understanding a concept, and if the case study is on a large urban centre e.g. Liverpool. Task: create a list of these definitions and chose an example of each one for close to where you live. Key terms for different kinds of settlements: · Built-up area – areas of built-up land joined together, where the gap between developed land is less than 200m. · City – a large settlement that depends mainly on the service and knowledge industries, along with manufacturing: it is an aggregation of places. UK cities have to be granted city status by the Royal Charter; the UK currently has 69 cities. · ...