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Tony Richardson My Wonderful World - Being a global citizen Kids.Net.Au - What is globalisation? GlobalGang - Global issues. Time For Kid..
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At its simplest level the global dimension in geography means learning about places or themes at the global scale. But global understanding requires ..
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Geography: the Global Dimension was a Key Stage 3 project led by the GA and funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nat..
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The Unit of Work The new National Curriculum's emphasis on key geographical concepts inspired us to focus on the concept of uneven development. We t..
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Planning to enable progression The planning was broken down into stages: Stage 1 - Setting the Context and Shared Understanding Students were aske..
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Selected examples of student work are given below in the order they were completed. Students often worked in groups and all lessons allowed discussio..
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Dylan's thoughts Dylan was asked to write about 'My journey through this unit of work'. Examples of his work are included in this site. I have real..
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King Edward VI Five Ways School King Edward VI Five Ways School is a successful grammar school in the suburbs of Birmingham. In 2008 100% of student..
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Comments on the students' work Teacher response to student work was frequent and took varied formats. See the Students' Work page for downloadable e..
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Thoughts on the project I feel that geography did 'happen' in many of these lessons. We were able to focus on the geographical learning and mental p..
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Student voice Student voice was sought and valued throughout the unit. Students were asked to observe lessons and comment on the geographical learni..
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Feedback Feedback to students took place frequently and in a variety of formats. The following proved particularly useful: Group and one to one d..
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The approach to learning about a distant place taken in this unit, beginning in the children's here and now and then moving outwards, is infinitely ..
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'Every geography lesson, if it isn't a real field trip, is a virtual field trip' Chris Durbin An introduction from the author I am a writer. FS, K..
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Is there a relationship between the level of inequality in a country and its global footprint? The teaching ideas on this page are based around a Po..
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The Geographical Association has led, and continues to lead, a number of innovative curriculum development projects. A portion of your membership sub..
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Anna Disney Abstract This paper draws on the author's research into the contribution of school linking projects to the development of global educat..
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Geography plays a part in promoting development education in schools, but thinking about the global dimension implies a step change from stereotypica..
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There are a number of issues that geography teachers might like to consider in planning the global dimension in lessons: geographical thinking and va..
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Providing opportunities for students to explore their geographical imaginations can be done through affective mapping. This supports the development ..
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These activities focus on urban development in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. The stimulus material was sourced from Geography in the News and the aim is to ..
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This activity uses the concept of scale to reveal to students how connections may be seen differently at different scales. Scale is not discrete, and ..
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A considered sense of the future gives meaning to many activities that develop the global dimension. A futures frame can help generate higher level t..
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Using newspapers and other media is highly motivating for students. To balance sensational headlines on disasters, geography can challenge images of ..
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Partnerships between schools can extend students' views of our interdependent world and develop their capacity to make positive choices. Partnerships ..
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The main aim here is to show how the geography Key Stage 3 programme of study can be transformed. This is done through the use of eight global dimens..
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Action Aid One of the UK's largest development agencies, working in more than 30 countries. ActionAid has a network of visiting teachers and can prov..
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Valuing Places was a three year project which brought together a wide range of people from all areas of the country including GA volunteers, members, ..
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These CPD units share tasters of the 'big ideas' that the Valuing Places project explored. Many of these focus on images of China but can be applied ..
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Lindsay Burgin, a geography teacher from Aston Comprehensive School, has developed a mini-scheme of work focusing on Measles and AIDS here and in Afr..
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Teaching about 'global dimension' represents both an opportunity and a challenge for geography in initial teacher education and primary schools as Ar..
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The starting point for this e-article by Penny Sweasey (Manchester Metropolitan University) based on ITE session activities was Geography: The global ..
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Global Climate Change is certainly a 'hot topic' for geography educators. Alun Morgan (Institute of Education, University of London) considers some o..
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This material was contributed by Sue Parsons.
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