Curriculum Making
Teaching Ideas - Does your shopping measure up?
Elaine Lockwood and Sally Kelly
Colne Primet High School
AfL consultant for Lancashire and Geographer Elaine Lockwood and Sally Kelly from the Geography Department at Colne Primet High School in Lancashire show how the siting of a local supermarket, its produce and an investigation of shopping habits can be a rich source of material for geographical understanding.
They show how learning can develop understanding of environmental interactions, interdependence and place through a geographical enquiry that enables students to share opinions, identify bias and check out use and abuse of evidence.
How is Madonna's new craze for Goji berries - the 'miracle fruit' that promises 'eternal youth and vitality' threatening to put a poor farmer in Tibet out of business?
The sequence of lessons explores shopping habits through a proposed supermarket development identified in the local newspaper with Y9 students who were working on a module called 'Local actions Global effects'. The approach uses AfL practice and the series of activities show how quality geography and AfL combine to create rich learning experiences.
Although this work is centred around a particular supermarket development, much of it can be readily adapted to your own local area and used to deepen students' awareness of how their actions can have global effects.
Download: Lesson Introductions
Download: Lesson 1
Download: TASC Wheel
Download: Mind Map
Download: Lesson 2
Download: Sustainable Starter Lesson 2
Download: Sustainability Triangle
Download: Lesson 3
Download: Cartoon
Download: Mystery Cards
Download: Mystery Writing Frame
Download: Lesson 4
Download: Lesson 5
Download: Better Judgements
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