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Sarah Watts T&L consultant, HIAS [email protected]

‘Make geography a challenge to the mind, not a burden on the memory’

Sue LomasPresidential AddressGA Annual Conference 2006


Geography Room 101


They Are Our Today and Our Tomorrows

Reece and Lexy – May

Their geographical future is in our hands.

What is geography?


Defining Geography

• Geography provokes and answers questions about the world. It uses different scales of enquiry to view natural and human environments from different perspectives. It develops appreciation of places and environments throughout the world, an understanding of maps and a range of investigative and problem-solving skills both inside and outside the classroom. Geography is a focus for understanding and resolving issues about the environment and sustainable development.


Importance of Geography

The study of geography stimulates an interest in and a sense of wonder about places. It helps young people make sense of a complex and dynamically changing world. It explains where places are, how places and landscapes are and how people and their environment interact, and how a diverse range of economies, societies and environments are interconnected. It builds on pupils’ own experiences to investigate places at all scales, from the personal to the global.


is the rationale?are the special characteristics?

will students gain?Is significant about the students?

is distinctive about the schoolspecific resources do we have as a school

can we learn from past experience?

How might geography change pupils’ lives for the better?

What…


Significant Geography…..It’s the world that must be Geography!


Water and other resource pressures.

Energy supply

Enviro- taxation – Recycling.

My local area / region Health issues

A place to live Local food supply – no more air miles.

Travel chaos What when the Tigers rule the world!

The importance of the sea. Climatic change-rising sea levels.

Multi-cultural society. Core position within the EU.

Glass ball gazing


NC Programme of Study common frameworkImportance Statement

Key Concepts

Key processes

Range and content

Curriculum opportunities


Place: what are man made and natural places like

Space: how do man made and natural places fit together in the ‘world jigsaw’Scale: understanding the big picture as well has what we experience day to day

Interdependence: we all have an impact on each other

Physical and human processes: events can change the physical and human worldEnvironmental interaction: people use the natural world and have the ability to change itCultural understanding and diversity: people from around the world lead different ways of life.


Acknowledgments to Christine Staples



Our local area

Conservation

Extreme weather

How Rivers Work

Brazil Football

Place

Space

Scale

Interdependence

Physical and Human Processes

Environmental Interaction

Cultural understanding and diversity

Sarah Watts T&L consultant, HIAS [email protected] to Ian Dixson of High Arkell School Dudley


Who said..

“You can travel the seas, poles and deserts, and see nothing. To really understand the world, you need to get under the skin of the people and places. In other words learn about geography. I can’t imagine a subject more relevant in schools. We’d al be lost without it… Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future”

Technology

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