Key Stage 3 Geography and Sustainable Development
Are you concerned to help young people:
- explore environmental, social and economic issues without offering simple solutions?
- clarify their understanding of what may underpin a more ‘sustainable’ future?
- explore the potential of GIS to look at alternative scenarios?
Then here's your chance to come and share curriculum resources and ideas to address these concerns. You may choose to work through the unit in a linear fashion or you may prefer to select only the parts that are most useful to you by using the course contents menu that you can find below and in the right hand column of each page.
Course Contents
Stimulus
Introducing Sustainable Development
Activity 1
Personal reflection - what is sustainable development?
Activity 2
Student Voices
Activity 3
Snakes and ladders
Taking it Further
Whose sustainable development?
Curriculum making with a focus on SD
Activity 4
Bringing SD into your curriculum making
Activity 5
Geography's contribution to sustainable schools
Activity 6
Evaluating activities with an SD focus
Activity 7
Skills and behaviours
Activity 8
Interconnections and spatial thinking
Activity 9
The web as a resource
Activity 10
Incorporating resources into a crowded curriculum
Activity 11
Global footprints: Measuring the size of your feet!
Developing Your Thinking
Living geography and sustainable development
The global dimension: the Millennium Development Goals
Curriculum making plans
Activity 12
Using the local area
Activity 13
Goals for the future
Activity 14
Empathy and understanding
Planning a sequence of lessons with a futures dimension
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Learning Outcomes
We will work together to:
- develop informed, relevant and enjoyable learning activities to help pupils succeed in geography
- think about current developments in geography education
- explore different resources and teaching approaches
- become more confident about the significance of geography to the wider education of young people
- exchange views and experiences
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Course Contents
Stimulus
Introducing Sustainable Development
Activity 1
Personal reflection - what is sustainable development?
Activity 2
Student Voices
Activity 3
Snakes and ladders
Taking it Further
Whose sustainable development?
Curriculum making with a focus on SD
Activity 4
Bringing SD into your curriculum making
Activity 5
Geography's contribution to sustainable schools
Activity 6
Evaluating activities with an SD focus
Activity 7
Skills and behaviours
Activity 8
Interconnections and spatial thinking
Activity 9
The web as a resource
Activity 10
Incorporating resources into a crowded curriculum
Activity 11
Global footprints: Measuring the size of your feet!
Developing Your Thinking
Living geography and sustainable development
The global dimension: the Millennium Development Goals
Curriculum making plans
Activity 12
Using the local area
Activity 13
Goals for the future
Activity 14
Empathy and understanding
Activity 15
Planning a sequence of lessons with a futures dimension