Curriculum Relevance

Programme 1

• GCSE: studying physical systems; valley landscapes; people and rivers (as part of the physical world).
• Scottish Standard Grade: physical landscapes as products of natural and constantly changing forces; physical environments and the opportunities and limits they pose for human activity.

Programme 2

• GCSE: the physical world — ice as a factor in the creation of landforms and the interaction between landforms and people.
• Scottish Standard Grade: physical landscapes and environments and the opportunities and problems they present to people.

Programme 3

• GCSE: coasts as a focus for studying physical systems and their interaction with people; the factors behind coastal landscapes; principles and examples of coastal management.
• Scottish Standard Grade: coasts as examples of physical landscapes; as environments with opportunities and constraints for people; as a resource to be managed.

Programme 4

• GCSE: studies of the factors influencing landforms and the environmental quality of different landscapes; managing the economic activity and its effects where rocks, e.g. slate and limestone, are commercially quarried.
• Scottish Standard Grade: the natural forces responsible for physical landscapes; the opportunities and limitations for human activity presented by elements of the physical environment.