Description:
Encouraging students to investigate their own communities is a key element of the new geography curriculum. This DVD package has been produced with the Geographical Association 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:
- introductory video-short
- three fifteen-minute programmes
- Q&A cameos about careers
- PowerPoint presentation
- teachers’ guidance
- pupils’ worksheets
‘The Year 10s enjoyed getting a feel for the change over time in such villages and to see how the community was responding.’ PGCE student, Bristol.
To try before you buy, visit www.youtube.com/user/ChannelPumpkin, click on ‘educational geography’ and select this product.
