Geography Teaching Today

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A Journey Down the River Ouse (KS2-3) View
Approach: Hide & Reveal activity, photos, maps
Concepts: Scale, interdependence, place, space
Keywords: River Ouse, assessment, map reading

A postcard from Japan (Year 9) View
Approach: Investigating and selecting images, Movie Maker
Concepts: Place, cultural understanding and diversity
Keywords: Global connections, Japan, culture, diversity, peer assessment

An Island Home (Year 2) View
Approach: Use of story, maps, plans and ICT to find out about a distant locality; use of Roamer (floor turtle)
Concepts: Place, space, environment
Keywords: Island, village, Coll, Scotland, local area, map, key, journey

Chembakolli: A village in India (KS2, Y3-6) View
Approach: Using photographs, maps, Local Studies digital mapping software
Concepts: Place, space, scale, culture & diversity 
Keywords: Chembakolli, village, India, city, contrast, map, homes, weather, food, shopping

Does your shopping measure up? (KS3-4) View
Approach: Questioning, enquiry, problem solving, mysteries, identification of bias, map-reading, ICT
Concepts: Environmental interactions, space, scale, interdependence
Keywords: Sustainable development, location, sphere of influence

Eco-schools Project (Primary - whole school) View
Approach: Working with the Eco Action Team which was made up of all age groups except Foundation Stage
Concepts: Environmental action and sustainability, place
Keywords: Water, environment, litter, community, review, local sources, food, Eco Action Team

Environmental problems in your local area (Year 8) View
Approach: Fieldwork, investigation & enquiry, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Movie Maker
Concepts: Environmental interactions, place
Keywords: Environmental quality, pollution, concerns, local, fieldwork, out of classroom learning, investigation, analysis

Fairy Stories and Bawburgh Village Study (Reception and Upper KS2) View
Approach: Reception children map the story of the Three Little Pigs using the IWB and the software programme 'Local Studies'.
Concepts: Place, space, scale
Keywords: House, village, three little pigs, map, journey, route

The Global Challenge: Will we destroy the planet? (KS3) View

Globalisation - Winners or Losers? (KS3-4) View
Approach: Questioning, thinking and reasoning skills, kinaesthetic learning
Concepts: Globalisation, interdependence, ethics
Keywords: Globalisation

Housing Estates - Building Sustainable Communities (KS3) View
Approach: Fieldwork, Investigation and enquiry, making a model housing estate
Concepts: Sustainable development, place
Keywords: Housing estates, sustainability, communities, 

Investigating our Local Area (KS2, Y3) View
Approach: Cross-curricular learning, fieldwork, creating maps and plans, using Local Studies software and online mapping
Concepts: Space, place, local scale
Keywords: Investigating, maps, locality, fieldwork, journey-sticks, country park, changing places

Making and Using Maps (Reception and Year 5) View
Approach: Reception: starting from story, 'The Gingerbread Man' and Year 5: using dry/wipe outline maps.
Concepts: space, place, scale
Keywords: Local Studies, story, route, Gingerbread Man, river, geographical features, Capital, countries, British Isles, Continents, World

Me and My Mobile (KS3) View
Approach: Questioning, enquiry, problem solving, ICT
Concepts: Interconnectedness, environmental interactions, sustainability, responsibility
Keywords: Consumer behaviour, commodities, sustainability, technology, e-waste, interconnectedness  

Minibeasts: ESD in the Foundation stage (Foundation) View
Approach: Interdisciplinary, enquiry, active fieldwork, first hand experience, talking and making. Photographs and posters.
Concepts: Diversity and Interdependence. Sustainable Schools - links to buildings and grounds.
Key words: ESD, enquiry, environment, vocabulary, care and wonder, first hand experience, fieldwork, interdisciplinary

Music - an Indian journey (KS2, Y4) View
Approach: Unit based upon a story, developed to combine ICT, Music, Geography, Literacy and Art
Concepts: place, space, culture & diversity
Keywords: sketch-map, Local Studies, map, story, India

Place, Space and Scale (KS3, Year 7) View
Approach: To provide Year 7s with a great introduction to the world of geography and some of the integral concepts of the subject area.
Concepts: Place, space, scale, interdependence and others...

Rivers and Wildlife (KS2) View
Approach: Interdisciplinary (through use of literacy texts), fieldwork, mapwork skills
Concepts: Place, changing human and physical processes, environmental interaction
Keywords: Human impacts, maps, rivers, imaginary settings, fieldwork, water

Using our Playground (Year 2) View
Approach: Familiarisation walk, observation, using a digital camera, Hide & Reveal activity, PowerPoint
Concepts: Place, space, location
Keywords: Local, environment, place, space, location, senses, map, symbol, key

Water and Life (KS2 - Year 6) View
Approach: Interdisciplinary, enquiry approach, linking global to local, action orientated
Concepts: Scale, changing human and physical processes, environmental interaction
Keywords: Active citizenship, enquiry, visual literacy, water

Water around us (KS2) View
Approach: Interdisciplinary, active fieldwork, using the locality
Concepts: Interdependence, place, environmental interaction
Keywords: Fieldwork, locality study, active citizenship, water

Who do we think we are? (Years 3 and 4) View
Approach: Links geography, history and citizenship. Asks, who lives in the local area, what brought them here and what might their locality be like?
Concepts: Place, identity, change, citizenship  
Keywords: Place, identity, change over time, citizenship