Curriculum Making
Primary Handbook Extension Project - Maps and Stories (4-7)
Everyday Lives
This section extends the content of Primary Geography Handbook Chapter 6
Understanding and Developing Primary Geography
by Simon Catling (pp.74-91)
'... Geography is part and parcel of our personal survival kit. It is a way of looking at the world that focuses our learning on what places and the environment are like, why they are important to us, how they are changing and how they might develop in the future. To make sense of the features and layout of our immediate and the wider world, we map it, both to see where things are and to help us understand... ...the variety of natural and human processes at work.' Catling (2004) p.75
This chapter is an excellent foundation base of knowledge for effective primary geography and includes a rationale and a clear sense of progression and purpose from Foundation to Key Stage 2 in which distinctive skills such as enquiry and mapwork are clearly explained.
Everyday Lives is the theme chosen for this section and it focuses on walks in everyday localities. Children should be encouraged and supported to be active explorers of their locality, developing both a sense of place and the spatial skills to represent this growing knowledge. Everyday we travel through our local area yet do we really look closely and think about what we see?
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