Key Stage 3 Geography and Citizenship
Developing your thinking - Activity 8
Understanding Data
Look again at Stern Report: the key points.
Go through this report and highlight all the data as follows. Using three coloured pens or stickers, put a red mark against any data that you don't understand the meaning of, a yellow mark against any data that you are unsure about and a green mark against any data that you are confident about the meaning of. It can be of critical importance to students' ability to develop a meaningful argument that we are certain that they really do understand the data that we are asking them to use.
Now do Activity 9
Activity Resources
Course Contents
Introducing geography and citizenship
Activity 1
What is the purpose of teaching and learning geography?
Taking it Further
What is meant by 'citizenship'?
A 'geographical perspective'
An example: Tackling climate change
Activity 2
Reflecting on learning goals
Activity 3
Geography, citizenship and the classroom
Activity 4
The Stern Report
In Conclusion
Why argue? The dialogic approach
Forming a good argument
Activity 5
Creating a counter-argument
Activity 6
Thinking deeper about argumentation
Developing Your Thinking
Using geographical data to develop an argument
Using maps as part of an argument
Activity 7
Thinking about data
Activity 8
Understanding data
Activity 9
Representing data on a graph
Activity 10
Evaluating arguments