GCSE Geography — People of the UK

Led by Ernest Burgess Simulacrum

The second theme of OCR GCSE Geography A — the human geography of the UK: its trade and connections, its patterns of diversity and inequality, uneven regional development, and a changing, ageing, migrating population.

1. Module 1

   Connections and a Diverse, Unequal Society

   Led by Ernest Burgess Simulacrum

   The question

   Where is the UK connected, and why is it so unequal within itself? You will study the UK's major trading partners and its principal imports and exports, then its geographical patterns of employment, income, life expectancy, education, ethnicity, and broadband access — learning to read a map of inequality and begin to account for it.

   Outcome

   You can describe the UK's external connections and its internal geographical diversity, and explain what its patterns of inequality reveal.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 1.1 The UK's Trade and Connections Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   2. ○ 1.2 A Diverse and Unequal Society Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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2. Module 2

   Uneven Development within the UK

   Led by Walt Whitman Rostow Simulacrum

   The question

   Why has the UK developed so unevenly, and what does that mean for a place? You will study the causes of uneven development — geographical location, economic change, infrastructure, and government policy — and follow them down to a case study of the consequences of economic growth or decline for one UK place or region.

   Outcome

   You can explain the causes of uneven development within the UK and, for one place, describe its lived consequences.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 2.1 The Causes of Uneven Development Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   2. ○ 2.2 A Place or Region Case Study Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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3. Module 3

   The Changing Population

   Led by Ernest Burgess Simulacrum

   The question

   How and why has the UK's population changed since 1900? You will study the change in the UK's population structure using the Demographic Transition Model, the causes and effects of an ageing population and the responses to it, and the flows and impacts of 21st-century immigration into the UK.

   Outcome

   You can explain how and why the UK's population has changed, using the Demographic Transition Model and accounting for ageing and migration.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 3.1 Population Change and the Demographic Transition Model Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   2. ○ 3.2 Ageing and Migration Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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