Geography Teaching Today

Evaluating three activities that have a sustainable development focus

Outlined below are three activities that geography teachers have used with their students. For each activity evaluate the following:

1. What was the purpose of intended learning? What understandings does it appear that the teacher was trying to develop?
2. What was the geographical content that was being used to underpin the activity? Which concepts does this activity help to develop an understanding of?
3. What appears to lie behind the teacher's choice of activities?
4. For which geographical issues/themes/places might this activity be most appropriate?
5. Would you want to use this activity with your students? If so, how would you develop it to make it appropriate to your local circumstances?
6. How might each activity contribute to each of the eight doorways in the sustainable schools framework?

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