Development: Knowledge specifications
According to the Geography curriculum KS3 pupils should... (under construction).
Students will need to learn about the following at KS3:
Students will need to learn about the following at KS3:
- What development means.
- What the social and economic development indicators are; health, jobs, wealth, education, equality.
- Different ways to measure development e.g. literacy rate, GDP, life expectancy, HDI, industry types, birth rate, death rate, infant mortality, freedom of speech, equal opportunities for women.
- The distribution of more and less developed countries around the world, including the idea of the 'Brandt Line'.
- The difference between MEDCs and LEDCs including definition of both with examples.
- That an NIC is a developing country e.g. China, Brazil.
- How and why do NICs grow/develop.
- What an 'emerging country' is, with examples e.g. India.
- The physical, political and social factors that can affect development e.g. weather, war and the population.
- What the United Nations is and what its millennium goals are.
- Asia makes a useful case study to represent the diverse economic states of countries and physical/topographical influences.
- What poverty means and why slums are created with examples.
- Why the gap in inequality is growing.
Students will need to learn the following at KS4, based on the AQA specification:
- The limitations of the different ways you can measure development.
- Ways of classifying different parts of the world.
- The relationship between quality of life and the standard of living.
- The differences in what is considered to be an acceptable quality of life in different counties.
- How people living in poorer parts of the world try to improve their quality of life.
- Case studies of global inequalities under the following headings; political (unstable governments), physical (hazards), social (water availability/accessibility) and economic (trade).
- Solutions to issues of inequality including fair trade, international aid and sustainability projects.
- A development project case study.
- Differences in development levels within EU countries and the EU's attempts to reduce this gap.
Please click on the following link to find a detailed specification for GCSE on 'The Development Gap' based on AQA paper A: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-9030-W-SP-14.PDF.
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