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LC Geography: Running the Applied Geography Project

Run the Leaving Certificate Applied Geography Project with your fifth-year class, from the brief to the signed Form P.2.

2.5 hours
6 short lessons
Online, at your own pace
Certificate

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About this course

A two-and-a-half-hour course for Leaving Certificate Geography teachers whose fifth-year classes started the new specification in September 2026. The Applied Geography Project is worth 40% of the subject, on a common brief from the SEC, which expects to issue the live brief by Quarter 1 2027; until then the course uses the SEC's sample brief. It takes the NCCA guidelines' seven stages one by one, from considering the brief to finalising the report, and shows how to support inquiry questions and evidence that stay each student's own, with fieldwork and data protection under your school's policies. It sets out how to authenticate the work under the SEC's Coursework Rules and Procedures, including referencing and AI use. Every template is yours to download and adapt.

What you will be able to do

By the end you will be able to plan your class's project hours from the brief's release, support each of the seven stages in the ways the NCCA guidelines allow, guide each student's inquiry question and evidence without doing the work for them, authenticate the work under the SEC's rules on referencing and AI, and get every report finalised as the brief requires.

What's in the course

6 lessons, about 25 minutes each. Take them in order, whenever suits you.

How the Applied Geography Project runs under the new specification, how to support each of its seven stages with a whole class, and how to authenticate the work and take it to submission.

1 The Project and Its Brief Free preview 25 min
2 Considering the Brief and Formulating the Inquiry Question 25 min
3 Considering Evidence Collection 25 min
4 Collecting Evidence, Analysing and Communicating 25 min
5 Evaluating, Reflecting and Authenticating the Work 25 min
6 Finalising the Report 25 min

What you get

A certificateFor 2.5 hours of professional learning, when you finish.

Your own portfolioEverything you write in the course collects in one place to keep.

Templates to adaptEvery template in the course is yours to download and adapt.

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