It's not just in the UK that the curriculum is being reviewed. I have mentioned the Australian review before. The draft of the new Australian National Curriculum is now available. Plenty of work being done by ACARA and other Australian colleagues. Will be interesting to see what the comments are. The document is over 100 pages long, and there seems to be quite a lot of material there...
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Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and explaining the characteristics of the places that make up our world, through perspectives based on the concepts of place, space and environment.
A study of geography develops students’ curiosity and wonder about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. Students examine why places have their particular environmental and human characteristics, explore the similarities and differences between them, investigate their significance and meanings to people, explain how they change over time, and evaluate their futures.
Good to see some mention of the impact of technology too:
Geographical enquiry (or inquiry) featured in Y1 and 2
Also like the BIG IDEA that each Year has, although it means it's quite a lot to focus on...
These include
Year 5: Weather and activities
Year 6: Going Global
Heading into Secondary
Year 7: Environmental Resources
Starts with a unit on the importance of water (clearly an important issue for Australia)
Why people live where they do
Year 8: Landscapes - (always a good focus for work... I like the section on: "appreciating that some societies do not separate landscape and culture", which again is an important element of Australian culture)
Personal and Community Geographies
A major area for overlap with the work of the GA and the Geography Collective here - the title sounds good, but some of the content here is a little dry...
What it could do with is a bit of a MISSIONEXPLORE twist of course, although when my colleague Dan Ellison contacted members of the AGTA they weren't overly receptive...
Year 9: Biomes and Food Security
Again, food security a major world issue...
Navigating global connections
Year 10: Environmental Challenges and geography
Global well-being
Senior Secondary
1. The changing biophysical cover of the Earth
2. Sustaining places
3. Environmental risk management
4. A world in the making
Good to see a GA publication in the references by Fred Martin
Martin, F (2006), e-geography: Using ICT in quality geography, Geographical Association, Sheffield.
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Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and explaining the characteristics of the places that make up our world, through perspectives based on the concepts of place, space and environment.
A study of geography develops students’ curiosity and wonder about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. Students examine why places have their particular environmental and human characteristics, explore the similarities and differences between them, investigate their significance and meanings to people, explain how they change over time, and evaluate their futures.
Good to see some mention of the impact of technology too:
In addition, the draft Australian Curriculum: Geography provides opportunities for students to enhance their information and communication technology competence by exploring the effects of these technologies on places, on the location of economic activities and on people’s lives, and to understand the geographical changes produced by the increasing use of technology
Also like the BIG IDEA that each Year has, although it means it's quite a lot to focus on...
These include
Year 1: Not everywhere is the same
Year 2: Links to our world
Year 3&4: How we live
Year 5: Weather and activities
Year 6: Going Global
Heading into Secondary
Year 7: Environmental Resources
Starts with a unit on the importance of water (clearly an important issue for Australia)
Why people live where they do
Year 8: Landscapes - (always a good focus for work... I like the section on: "appreciating that some societies do not separate landscape and culture", which again is an important element of Australian culture)
Personal and Community Geographies
A major area for overlap with the work of the GA and the Geography Collective here - the title sounds good, but some of the content here is a little dry...
What it could do with is a bit of a MISSIONEXPLORE twist of course, although when my colleague Dan Ellison contacted members of the AGTA they weren't overly receptive...
Year 9: Biomes and Food Security
Again, food security a major world issue...
Navigating global connections
Year 10: Environmental Challenges and geography
Global well-being
Senior Secondary
1. The changing biophysical cover of the Earth
2. Sustaining places
3. Environmental risk management
4. A world in the making
Good to see a GA publication in the references by Fred Martin
Martin, F (2006), e-geography: Using ICT in quality geography, Geographical Association, Sheffield.
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