Learning and Teaching Sequence for the SS Geography Curriculum

Level Topics
S4 Opportunities and Risks – Is it rational to live in hazard-prone areas? Plate tectonics and related landforms
Tectonic hazards – Earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami
Managing River and Coastal Environments Fluvial and coastal processes and landform features

Human activities in river and coastal environments – Consequences and management

Changing Industrial Location Factors affecting industrial location

Case studies – Hong Kong, iron and steel in China, IT industry in the US

S5 Dynamic Earth Earth systems – Internal structure of the Earth and rock cycle

Geomorphology and geology of Hong Kong

Geological resources – Reclamation materials

Geological hazard – Landslides

Building a Sustainable City City: processes, problems and solutions
Concepts of sustainable development
Sustainable city : characteristics, strategies of achievements, cost and benefits
Combating Famine Famine – Spatial pattern, causes and solution
Case studies – Nomadic herding in the Sahel, irrigation farming in Southern California
Disappearing Green Canopy Tropical rainforest as an ecosystem

Deforestation – Causes, consequences and solution

S6 Global Warming Patterns of world temperature distribution

Global warming – Causes, consequences and solutions

Weather and Climate

 

Climatic systems – Temperature, pressure and wind, precipitation

Weather and climate of Hong Kong

Factors affecting the climate of China

Drought in northern China – Causes, consequences and solutions

 

Assessment

Component Outline Weighting Duration
Public examination Paper 1 Compulsory Part 75% 2 hours 45 minutes
Paper 2 Elective Part 25% 1 hour 15 minutes

There will be no School-Based Assessment (SBA). There will be a compulsory fieldwork-based question in Paper 1. Candidates are expected to have fieldwork experiences.

 

Relationship between Geography (S1 – 3) Syllabus and SS Geography Curriculum

Geography (S1 – 3) Geography (S4 – 6)
Topic Topic
S1
Using urban space wisely
Building a Sustainable City
S2
The trouble with water

Food problems

Managing River and Coastal Environments

Combating Famine

S3
Living with natural hazards

 

Global shift in manufacturing industry
Oceans in trouble

Opportunities and Risks – Is it rational to live in hazard-prone areas?
Dynamic Earth
Weather and Climate
Changing Industrial Location
Disappearing Green Canopy