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Projects Front Page
The Geographical Association has led, and continues to lead, a number of innovative curriculum development projects. A portion of your membership subscription goes towards project funding, and we receive additional financial support from a number of external organisations. If you find these materials useful we would urge you to join the GA to support us in developing existing projects and initiating new ones.
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The Geography Trainers' Induction Programme is a project funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools to support and inspire geography teacher trainers. This ever-expanding area contains the GeogEd online journal, a bank of Think Pieces and Orientation Pieces, background information, resources from the last four GTE Conferences, a section on GIS, free samples from the Theory Into Practice series, a comprehensive bibliography and information on ITT Standards and Ofsted Inspections.
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| Primary Handbook Extension Project |
An Action Plan for Geography Project
This new Project section contains material which builds on the excellent resources and ideas in the Primary Geography Handbook - a must have book for all subject leaders and teachers from Foundation to KS2. The three strands are 'Maps and Stories', 'Fieldwork' and 'Distance Places' and each is divided into separate activities for different age groups.
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This new project for primary schools focuses on four key areas: engaging in practical curriculum making, 'living geography', Learning Outside the Classroom and Education for Sustainable Development. The first teacher-created materials have just been added to the website (11.04.08)
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| Building Sustainable Communities |
This GA project received funding from the Academy for Sustainable Communities to explore the skills required to enable sustainable communities. It contains a range of resources and features an online CPD Unit, 'Places People Want'.
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CABE and the Geographical Association worked in partnership with teachers in East Lancashire and South Cambridgeshire to make 'Where Will I Live?' a unique curriculum development project. This area was updated in Summer 2006 to include a wealth of resources created by project participants.
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During 2005, primary schools in Castleford and Airedale were invited to take part in a local geography project part funded by the GA/DfES and Wakefield District Council. The project aimed to involve children in the regeneration of their local areas. This page contains background and outcome materials and a selection of links to externally hosted resources.
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The GA funded this CPD-led curriculum development project which sought to explore how our teaching about places within Key Stages 2 and 3 can develop students' understanding of global interconnections. This area contains background information about the project and four CPD units.
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'Living Geography' aims to meet the challenge of engaging students with innovative and enjoyable learning that embraces their own perceptions of change in the local environment and that is current and future oriented; is local but set in wider (global) contexts; investigates change processes; evaluates change and questions sustainability. This is an ongoing project and the area currently contains three units of work developed by schools in Rotherham and Marston Vale.
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Funded by the BECTA ICT Fund and ESRI(UK), this project aims to develop the use of GIS in the curriculum through sharing and communicating GIS work carried out in schools. This section contains background information and reports from participating schools and the project evaluator.
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There is much geographical potential in this type of ICT, and three schools set out in 2006-07 to investigate webcam uses and their impact on learners. Their findings are shared on this project area and will continue to be added as their classroom research brings further results.
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DfES funding allowed us to run this project which helped teachers set up and maintain a website for their geography department. Six schools participated in the project and this area contains their reports, links to the websites they created, tips, terminology and an evaluation report.
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| Primary Interactive Whiteboard Project |
The accounts and materials on this page are the outcomes of a GA/DfES funded Local Project which took place in 2005. The teachers involved created a range of interactive whiteboard resources based around maps and photos to investigate their own locality and contrasting seaside localities.
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The Global Dimension project was funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the National Lottery Community Fund and aimed to encourage teachers and pupils to think about the interconnections between people and places on a global scale. This area features a variety of resources, ideas and activities which support and supplement the booklet Geography: The Global Dimension which can be downloaded free. Although this section received its last update in 2005, the ideas and materials remain relevant.
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The Geographical Association and Durham University are collaborating on this Wellcome Trust funded project which aims to enhance students’ ability to reason with numerical data and make better-informed decisions about disease spread and risk-taking behaviour. The project is still underway but more information and resources will be added soon.
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The GA has worked on developing curriculum materials appropriate to the ideas and approaches promoted by the OCR Pilot GCSE Geography course. This section therefore contains background information, details on the specification and teaching resources. Initially supported by the Geography Development Fund, the Action Plan for Geography has taken Pilot GCSE support further.
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| Lead Geography Departments |
Funded through the Excellence in Cities initiative, this project provides the opportunity to celebrate innovative leadership in geography education. It also enables geography departments to discover ways to share experience and encourage good subject leadership across secondary schools.
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'GeoVisions' describes all of the GA's creative professional development opportunities that lead to new developments in school geography. Opportunities, such as Why Argue? and Where Will I Live? sought funding support for local solutions for curriculum innovation.
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The GA worked with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and the Earth Science Teachers' Association (ESTA) to explore the concepts of identity, citizenship and sustainability. This area contains background information about the project and evaluation reports.
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