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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.
Start the CPD Unit Places People Want >>>
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| Sustainable Communities: Places People Want? |
Encouraging students to investigate their own communities is a key element of the new geography curriculum. This DVD package has been produced by Pumpkin TV in association with the GA and Academy for Sustainable Communities to serve an enquiry approach to 'My community' by showing everyday people in unexceptional circumstances.
The case studies featured are Hamstreet, Kent, Cornwall and the Dearne Valley, Yorkshire. The DVD comprises: and introductory video, three 15-minute programmes, Q&A cameos about careers, a PowerPoint presentation, teachers' guidance and student worksheets.
Price: £45.99 (£39.99 GA members)
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This project asks two questions:
What is meant by 'sustainable communities'?
How do geographical skills lead to engagement?
It arises from two linked ideas...
This is living geography: at home and outside the front door.
It is about participation now and for the future.
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Four teacher-groups are working in:
- Kent and Medway
- Milton Keynes and South Midlands
- Humberside
- Plymouth and South Devon
Find out more >>>
CPD
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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| Architecture Centre Network |
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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