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Physical Geography in the National Curriculum

Physical Geography in the National Curriculum . Knowledge and Understanding of places Identify and describe what places are like- landscapes Identify and describe where places are- in relation to physical features

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Physical Geography in the National Curriculum

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  1. Physical Geography in the National Curriculum Knowledge and Understanding of places • Identify and describe what places are like- landscapes • Identify and describe where places are- in relation to physical features • Recognise how places how places have become the way they are and how they change e.g. rivers, coastlines , mountains

  2. Physical Geography in the National Curriculum Knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes • Make observations about where things are located and about other features in the environment – physical landscape, landforms and features • Recognise change in physical features – vegetation, rivers and coasts • Recognise and explain patterns made by individual physical features in the environment (KS2) • Recognise some physical processes( KS2)

  3. Physical Geography in the National Curriculum Themes • Water and its effects on landscapes and people including the physical features ,rivers or coasts and the processes of erosion and deposition that affect them

  4. And… Opportunities to teach physical geography arise through the following topic areas: • Rivers, • Coasts, • Weather and climate, • Locality studies • Environmental geography.

  5. Suggested teaching strategies • Field sketches • Wordscapes • Painting • Poetry • Digital photographs • Fieldwork and data collection • Re- creation of landforms with sand, modelling clay or play dough • Playground reconstruction • Video • PowerPoint • Music • Flicker books • Links to literacy –descriptions of setting

  6. No fear! Remember Geography is essentially investigative “Physical Geography is less a series of facts to be learned than a series of questions about the processes shaping the environment. This is recognised in the national curriculum which advocates direct experience, practical work, exploration ,investigations based on fieldwork and , above all, the use of geographical questions.” Liz Lewis p.247 in Scoffham, S (2004), Primary Geography Handbook, Sheffield: Geographical Association.

  7. “We want them to investigate through their freshly enquiring eyes and not ours” “…essential that we undertake some work in the field” - Liz Lewis

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