Guide to the Shell Curriculum 2023 - 2024

Geography

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Geography is the study of the world around us and the ways in which people interact with it. This means that you can’t go anywhere or do anything without experiencing geography, whether it be the food that you eat, travelling on holiday, scrolling on the internet or even playing sport. Our mission as a department is to equip you with the skills to understand your daily experiences of geography and to inspire you to study it further.

57% (and growing!) of the world’s population live in cities - can we make their lives more sustainable? We will look at the people producing solutions to urban issues and you will have the challenge of designing your own sustainable city. Within a fast-changing world we face rapidly evolving geopolitical, economic and environmental risks, brought about through conflict, cybercrime, new technologies or the increasing frequency of natural

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Over the Shell year you will study several topics that will be divided up into termly or half termly units. You will explore the mixing of cultures and identities in the world today,

disasters. You will get to investigate some of these risks that people face today and to evaluate the solutions. Increasingly, we are appreciating the

investigating issues including diversity, privilege, politics and

importance of the oceans to us, economically, politically and environmentally. As we know more about the surface of Venus than we do about the floor of the ocean, as part of the Oceans unit you will have the chance to complete your own research project on an aspect of the oceans.

economics. We will move on to look at international issues including the displacement of people and stateless nations.

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GUIDE TO THE SHELL CURRICULUM 2023-2024