wales
Geography
The Skills Space resources link to Key Stage 3 Geography:
Geography in the National Curriculum for Wales
Skills:
Locating places, environments and patterns
1. Locate places and environments using globes, atlases, and maps
2. Use maps, imagery and ICT to find and present locational information
Understanding places, environments and processes
1. Describe and explain physical and human features
2. Explain the causes and effects of physical and human processes and how the processes interrelate
3. Explain how and why places and environments change and identify trends and future implications
Investigating
1. Identify and establish sequences of questions for investigation
3. Analyse and evaluate ideas and evidence, answer questions and justify conclusions
Communicating
3. Communicate findings, ideas and information using geographyical terminology, maps, visual images, a range of graphical techniques and ICT
Range:
Pupils should be given opportunities to study:
- the rich and poor world: economic development in different locations / countries
- threatened environments: characteristics of, and possibilities for, their sustainable development
Pupils should be given opportunities to ask and answer questions:
- What are the features, the processes and patterns of this place / environment and why do they occur?
- How and why is this place / environment changing? What might happen next, in the short / long term and why?
- How and why is this place / environment feature connected to and interdependent with other places / environment / features?
- How can changes be sustainable and why is it important for this place / environment?
PSE
The Skills Space resources link to Key Stage 3 PSE:
Range:
Active citizenship
Pupils should be given opportunities to understand:
- topical local and global issues
Sustainable development and global citizenship
Pupils should be given opportunities to:
- develop a sense of personal responsibility towards local and global issues
- understand the key issues of stainable development and global citizenship