HKCEE Geography Details 2008 - 2009
AIMS OF STUDYING CE GEOGRAPHY:
1.
 Understand the arrangement of phenomena and features on Earth, and also the inter-relationship and interaction among people, places and environment.
2.
 Develop geographical skills and basic competencies for further studies and life situations.
3.
 Apply geographical knowledge and skills required for the betterment of individuals, society and the world.
OBJECTIVE of Studying CE Geography:
1.
 Understand the spatial concepts like location, distribution and pattern in order to analyze the spatial organization of natural and human phenomena and features within a geographical framework.
2.
 Identify and explain the characteristics of the major natural systems of the Earth, and to analyze the interactions within and between these systems.
3.
 Explain how human activities alter natural environments, and how natural systems influence human systems.
4.
 Apply geographical knowledge to interpret the past and the present as well as to plan for the future
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
1.
 Understand landforms on earth are created by endogenetic preocess and modified by exogentics process. Land forms are further changed by human activities like industrial and urban landscape.
2.
 Students acquire mapping skills and data analysis skills to understand geographical phenomena and use those skills to represent geographical phenomena accordingly.
3.
 Understand, give opinions and evaluate the impact of government urban planning on the environment.
4.
 Understand the interaction among the topics climate, river and agriculture and the role of human being in modifying climate, river and agricultural land.
5.
 Acquire skills of reading global climatic maps and apply them in answering climatic map-related structured questions and in their daily life.
6.
 Understand the causes of famine in the world and know the ways to control the worsening of cases in the future.
ASSESSMENT:
   To consolidate of what students have learnt in lesson and to cultivate further their interest in those areas, the following assessment methods will be used.
1.
  - Individual Homework
  Homework will be checked and assessed.
2.
  - Common Exercise
  Assessed standardized homework across the form.
Homework and common exercises will together account for approximately 10 of 20 CA marks)
3.
  - Form Test
  A summative assessment of student learning in both terms, weighting 10 CA marks in the first and second term.
4.
  - Field Trip Project
  Experiential learning during field trip (5-6 students in a group) on topics including hydrology, urban problems and agriculture.
5.
 (Form tests and projects will account for 10 of 20 CA marks in the term they are set in)