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Building Sustainable Communities
Have you refreshed your scheme of work on 'settlement' or 'my place'? The new online CPD Unit entitled 'Places People Want' will support this process working on your own or with colleagues. It explores the skills required to enable place-making and sustainable communities.
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This project asks two questions:
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Four teacher-groups are working in:
- Kent and Medway
- Milton Keynes and South Midlands
- Humberside
- Plymouth and South Devon
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There will also be workshops in different locations.
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| Teaching and Learning Resource |
'ASC about... place making' contains four copies of a pop-out and make pyramid and a CD-ROM photo-set. The pyramids serve a dual-purpose as an activity on settlement hierarchy and as an introduction to the eight components of sustainable communities. The 80 indexed photographs are easily accessible for inclusion in digital presentations.
To request a copy, without charge, contact the ASC.
Copies of the pyramid can be made from the template provided below:
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Young People's Geographies |
Roger Firth and Mary Biddulph, teacher-educators at Nottingham University, have been supported in working with the YPG project, led by Di Swift, which also relates to aspects of the Action Plan for Geography and GCSE Geography 21 (pilot).
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A Sounding Board of academics and educators has been established with an Evaluator in place.
See the related documents list for further reading.
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This project has taken forward 'Where Will I Live?'.
Building sustainable communities has a focus on Key Stage 4 and GCSE. What about Key Stage 1 and 2? Have a look at Changing Places in the EY and Primary section - a project about involving schools in the regeneration of communities.
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