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Curriculum Opportunities

Author: RGS-IBG

In this section we explore different approaches to providing curriculum opportunities in the following areas:

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According to the QCA Programme of Study, during the key stage pupils should be offered the following opportunities that are integral to their learning and enhance their engagement with the concepts, processes and content of the subject.

The curriculum should provide opportunities for pupils to:

 

  • use a range of enquiry approaches
  • use varied resources, including maps, visual media and geographical information systems
  • participate in informed responsible action in relation to geographical issues that affect them and those around them
  • examine geographical issues in the news
  • investigate important issues of relevance to the UK and globally, using a range of skills including ICT
  • undertake fieldwork investigations in different locations outside the classroom, individually and as part of a team
  • make links between geography and work in other subjects and areas of the curriculum.
Glossary:  

Geographical information systems
GIS is valuable for mapping and visualising information as well as linking and analysing different spatial datasets. There should be opportunities to learn with GIS and to learn about GIS.
Participate in informed responsible action
This enhances pupils’ understanding of how geography has meaning and relevance to their own lives. It can also help them make informed and independent decisions and take action both at a personal level and as citizens in society.
Fieldwork investigations
Fieldwork provides opportunities analyse issues in real contexts. Fieldwork also links study to pupils’ personal experience of places and environments.
Different locations outside the classroom

Fieldwork should relate directly to the topics studied, making the most of the local area as well as contrasting localities.

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