Analyse a significant contemporary event from a geographic perspective
You need to pick a real, recent event that happened in the world (within the last 5 years) and analyse it using geography — which means looking at where it happened, why it happened there, and how people and the environment were involved. You'll explain what the event was, who made decisions about it and how, and what effects it had on society, the economy, or the environment.
You describe the event, explain some of the planning and decisions behind it, and identify social, economic, or environmental impacts.
You provide detailed explanations of the planning and decision-making involved, and you explore the impacts on multiple dimensions (social, economic, and environmental) in depth.
You evaluate and judge the quality of the planning and decision-making, assess the impacts with nuance and insight, and show sophisticated geographic thinking about how location and people-environment interaction shaped the event and its consequences.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.