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Revealing the importance of geography

Why involve students in making the curriculum?

Why involve students in exploring the curriculum document?

There is a need to identify as a starting point what students think and feel about the geography as presented to them through teachers and other adults' interpretation of the new curriculum documentation.

One approach is to plan for joint exploration of the document as a starting point to your geography course.

 

Here are two KS3 classroom scenarios to think about in relation to your own practice to date:

In scenario 1 - the geography team of teachers has thoroughly examined the new documentation. They have attended Action Plan for Geography ‘curriculum-making' and KS3 Resources courses, regional conferences and have set about adapting their current schemes of work so that they reflect the new curriculum, including its emphasis on key concepts. This re-presentation of geography is then delivered to students. Students however, may have played only a passive role in the curriculum making process.

In scenario 2 - the geography team has thought about their shared interpretation of the new curriculum and invited students of all ages to interact with the document as well. A shared sense of ownership will hopefully engage students and allow them to see the significance of geography in their everyday and future lives. Here the co-construction of a meaningful geography for all is the goal of the department.

 

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Download the full modules as a .zip file

Below are links to each of the RGS-IBG's KS3 resources modules as .zip files. These contain all the module plans, worksheets and resources for each module, and also any interactives. Please be aware that they are extremely large files and may take some time to download. You will need to download winzip to view them.

  1. Revealing the importance of geography
  2. London 2012
  3. New India
  4. Adventure Landscapes
  5. Who wants to be a billionaire
  6. Africa
  7. Paradise Lost
  8. Risky World
  9. Fantastic Places
  10. Impossible Places
  11. China Today
  12. Changing Climates
  13. Who wants to live forever
  14. The Geography of my Stuff
  15. Are you flood ready?
  16. Who do we think we are?
  17. The Geography of Conflict
  18. Glacial Environments
  19. Mapping Festivals
  20. Our place in history
  21. Changing faces, shaping places
  22. Geography: The language of Europe
  23. The Geography of Science
  24. You are what you eat

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