The following video clip shows the GA's then Curriculum Leadership Projects Manager Diane Swift talking to teachers about what school geography is about. She focuses on three relevant aspects:
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The next video clip shows part of a mixed ability Year 9 lesson (13 years old) where students take part in a role play. They developed the idea of trying to make a link between their own lives and climate change with help from the teacher.
The week before the lesson in 2007, Sheffield and other parts of Yorkshire experienced a major flood and so the students decided to use this local event in their presentations. They used an iPod as the basis, a few additional props and wrote a script for a TV programme.
Geography teachers will quite often use role play as a learning tool for students and the way they perform here is fairly typical. The teacher also contributed to ensure that all the learning points were covered.
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You will remember having geography lessons when you were at school. You, of course, experienced these from the perspective of a student - from the perspective of a teacher the view is quite different.
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This issue focuses on refreshing the primary curriculum, offering advice on planning for integrated learning and using the concept of place as a focus. It also includes examples of how three schools have successfully combined art with geography.
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The Summer issue, which focuses on young people’s geographies, discusses how we can use students’ personal experiences to help make a geography curriculum which is meaningful and relevant to their everyday lives.
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