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NSS Geography Curriculum and Enquiry Learning - TRF as an example. Curriculum Development Officer. http://www.emb.gov.hk. Conventional Factual understanding (concepts or skills) Implications or application. Issues-based Issue/problem Factual understanding (concepts or skills)
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NSS Geography Curriculum and Enquiry Learning - TRF as an example Curriculum Development Officer
Conventional Factual understanding (concepts or skills) Implications or application Issues-based Issue/problem Factual understanding (concepts or skills) Explanation or interpretation of issue Comparison between a conventional lesson and a lesson using an issues-based approach(quoted from Stimpson, P. & Tao, P.K., (1994). Teaching in Hong Kong-Issues-based Teaching. P.16)
NSS Geography Curriculum -Compulsory Part Issues Problems
The learning & teaching of the issues/problems in the Compulsory Part • What is the issue/problem about? • What areas of geography will help us to interpret? • fieldwork & mapwork • generic skills • values & attitudes • …
Interior = What areas of Geography will help us to interpret? Exterior = What is the issue/problem about? • Surprise • = • Fieldwork investigation • Mapwork • Generic skills • …
What is the issue/problem about? Key geographical questions: • What? • Where? • How? • Why? • What if?
What areas of Geography will help us to interpret? • “Ecosystems” • components • characteristics • energy flow • nutrient cycle
What areas of Geography will help us to interpret? • Concepts & knowledge related to “Agriculture” • Concepts & knowledge related to “Population”
What is the issue/problem about? - What is the impact? Role play
What is the issue/problem about? – How? Information technology skills
What areas of Geographywill help us to interpret? • Concepts & knowledge related to “Development” e.g. Is ‘sustainable development of tropical rainforests’ a possible way out?
Suggested References • Stimpson, P. and Tao, P.K., (1994). Teaching in Hong Kong-Issues-based Teaching. Hong Kong: Longman Asia Limited. • Brooks, C., (2003). Investigating the geography behind the news, in Teaching Geography, Vol.28, No.2, P.70-73.
Geography in the News http://www.geographyinthenews.rgs.org