Geography: what makes a geographer?
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Why this why now
This unit introduces pupils to different aspects of being a geographer and develops a greater understanding of what studying the subject entails at secondary school. The unit builds on knowledge pupils gained at primary school and encourages them to consider how much knowledge they have of places, processes and geographical skills. The unit provides a foundation that underpins the rest of the secondary curriculum as it develops a range of key geographical skills such as mapwork and GIS and helps gives pupils a framework of the subject, which allows them to contextualise their learning.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should know where the UK is in the world.
- Pupils know that there are seven continents and five oceans.
- Pupils know that maps and atlases can be used to locate places.
- Pupils know that geography is the study of the world.
- Pupils know that fieldwork is used by geographers to find out about the world.
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Why this why now
This unit introduces pupils to different aspects of being a geographer and develops a greater understanding of what studying the subject entails at secondary school. The unit builds on knowledge pupils gained at primary school and encourages them to consider how much knowledge they have of places, processes and geographical skills. The unit provides a foundation that underpins the rest of the secondary curriculum as it develops a range of key geographical skills such as mapwork and GIS and helps gives pupils a framework of the subject, which allows them to contextualise their learning.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should know where the UK is in the world.
- Pupils know that there are seven continents and five oceans.
- Pupils know that maps and atlases can be used to locate places.
- Pupils know that geography is the study of the world.
- Pupils know that fieldwork is used by geographers to find out about the world.
Geography: what makes a geographer?
Pupils will use atlases, maps and globes to develop their locational knowledge of the world. Pupils will focus in on specific places to develop an awareness of how geographers examine place. OS maps and GIS will be used alongside fieldwork to build pupils' procedural knowledge.
12 lessons in unit
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