Living Geography
What constitutes Living Geography?
School geography faces an opportunity for fundamental change. Students who study geography should be encouraged to seek explanations about how the world works and to consider alternative future scenarios.
School geography should give opportunities for students to apply knowledge and conceptual understanding to new settings, to 'think geographically' about the changing world around them. Students should be allowed to develop as true geographers - posing geographical questions about issues that are important to them.
View the presentation below to find out more about Living Geography.
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Activity 2: Living Geography
Choose one of the four lesson ideas shown in the PowerPoint (the cartoon wall, the energy audit, pen-friend links or the work on disease).
Critically analyse it and evaluate the extent to which it meets the definition of 'Living Geography' given above.
Now select one of your KS3 units of work. What changes would you need to make so that it fits with the ethos behind 'Living Geography'?
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