This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Geography B 1GB0, Geography for Enquiring Minds. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
A course assessed on judgement, and activities shaped to match
Geography B asks students to reach conclusions more than it asks them to remember lists, and the activities here follow that.
Twenty-eight of the thirty-one involve extended writing. Twenty-eight put the student inside a scenario where a decision has to follow from the evidence in front of them. One involves a calculation.
That is a deliberate consequence of the specification rather than a house style. Component 3 Section D asks students to make a geographical decision from resources they have never seen, which is a process rather than a body of content. Nothing can rehearse the actual resources, so what these activities practise instead is the move from evidence to judgement, on content the exam will draw from.
The three topics with no case study
Three compulsory topics require no case study and no located example anywhere in them: people and the biosphere, forests under threat, and consuming energy resources.
That is worth knowing when you decide what to set as independent revision. Everywhere else, a student revising alone has to remember both the concept and whichever example your department chose, and they frequently remember only one. In these three there is no second thing to get wrong.
Fieldwork, including the conditional one
This specification needs four enquiries rather than two, and one of them is conditional: the river processes enquiry is required only if that option was taken at Topic 4. Worth checking against what your department actually ran before students revise the wrong one.
Fieldwork itself is examined on the enquiry your students carried out, so nobody outside your classroom can revise it. What generalises is the method, and that is what the fieldwork activities here cover.
What we have, topic by topic
Thirty-one live activities. The heaviest are the UK physical landscape at five and hazardous Earth at four, with most topics carrying two or three. The four fieldwork enquiries have one each, which reflects how little of fieldwork can usefully be pre-made rather than a gap we intend to fill.
Finding the right one
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. Homework is not a heading, because all thirty-one suit it and a heading holding everything separates nothing.
The three activities embedded below are playable here without an account.
Using them
Extended writing does not mark itself, and these activities do not pretend otherwise: what is checked automatically is the reasoning steps inside the scenario, not a written answer. For where that line sits and what it saves, see GCSE revision without a second marking load. For a short repeated cycle with a recheck, see revision intervention a department can sustain. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint.
Our past paper archive carries Edexcel's own Geography B papers and mark schemes, free and unaltered. For decision-making practice they are the only real source, because the resources are genuine ones.
What this page does not do
It does not mark extended writing.
It does not revise your fieldwork, and it cannot.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.