PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — OCR GCSE Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — & Answers

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — OCR GCSE Geography — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give your class a rigorous thinking workout while ensuring complete specification coverage. This printable booklet turns every part of the spec into clear, student-friendly tasks with built-in Grade 9 extensions. You also get a full answer set to support self-marking, quick feedback, and targeted intervention. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics, sub-topics, must-know content, misconceptions and key vocabulary mapped across the entire specification in detail.

PIXL strategies: Odd One Out • Always / Sometimes / Never True • Why? Why? Why? (5-deep) • Spot the Mistake • Diamond 9 / Ranking • Link It Up / Connections • Convince Me • What If? • Mini Retrieval (plus optional extras: If This Is the Answer…, Reduce It 30–3–2–1, Causation vs Correlation, Assumption Hunt).

Answers included: model points, sample justifications and marking guidance to make self-assessment easy.

Grade 9 stretch: every section has an Extension Task for analysis, evaluation and comparison.

Student-friendly layout: concise prompts, minimal prep, black-and-white printer-friendly.

UK Landscapes & Issues: Covers the physical landscapes of the UK, focusing on geomorphic processes and the formation of river and coastal landforms. It also explores key human and environmental issues in the UK, including population change, urban trends, trade, and managing climate and energy resources.

Global Ecosystems & Development: Examines the interdependence of ecosystems and the global distribution of major biomes like tropical rainforests and coral reefs. It explores the causes and consequences of uneven global development, rapid urbanisation, and urban growth in low- and middle-income countries.

Global Environmental Challenges: Focuses on the causes and consequences of climate change and natural hazards like droughts. It also covers global atmospheric circulation.

Geographical Skills: This section details essential practical skills, including cartographic, graphical, numerical, statistical, and fieldwork enquiry skills.