Thinking Skills - Geography and Sustainable Development
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Thinking Skills Geography and Sustainable Development provides lesson plans on how to use the thinking skills outlined in the National Curriculum to address the geography objectives and sustainable development concepts for KS1 and KS2.
Lessons include:
* The seaside
* Land use
* Waste and recycling
* Traffic issues
* River pollution
* Coastal erosion
* Tourism
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Thinking Skills - Geography and Sustainable Development - Patricia Kendell
Title page
Thinking Skills
Geography and Sustainable Development
Patricia Kendell
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Introduction
Thinking skills and geography
Aim of this book
The aim of this publication is to make more explicit the place of thinking skills in the teaching and learning of geography and sustainable development for children aged 5 to 11 years, and to demonstrate how this relates to the achievement of the aims of the school curricula in all the
countries of the UK.
Thinking skills underpin good primary practice in all subject areas. Promoting these skills helps to empower young children to become independent learners and to prepare them for taking up their role as well informed, constructively critical citizens. They are essential to education for sustainable development (ESD), which in the last few years has been integrated into the curricula of all UK countries in varying ways, as awareness of our global links and responsibilities has permeated our collective consciousness.
‘...[the school curriculum] should develop their awareness and understanding of, and respect for, the environments in which they live, and secure their commitment to sustainable development at a personal, local and global level.’
The National Curriculum: Handbook for primary teachers in England, 2000
Thinking skills
Information processing skills
Locating and collecting relevant information
Sorting
Classifying
Sequencing
Comparing and contrasting
Analysing relationships
Reasoning skills
Giving reasons for opinions and actions
Drawing inferences
Making deductions
Explaining what they think
Making judgements, informed by reasons and evidence
Enquiry skills
Asking relevant questions
Posing and defining problems
Planning what to do
How to research
Predicting outcomes
Anticipating consequences
Testing conclusions
Improving ideas
Creative thinking skills
Generating and extending ideas
Suggesting hypotheses
Applying imagination
Looking for innovative outcomes
Evaluation skills
Evaluating information
Judging the value of what the learner reads, hears and does
Developing criteria for judging the value of their own and others’ work or ideas
The study of geography enables children to develop a range of thinking skills, particularly those needed to develop an understanding of sustainable development. Children can be encouraged to use their thinking skills to:
study places from local to global to explore the interdependence of society, economy and the natural environment;
study how people are influenced by, and affect environments;
develop a sense of responsibility for personal and group action;
develop an appreciation of the need for sustainable use and management of resources for present and future generations;
be able to listen carefully to arguments from different viewpoints.
Reference: Lessons in Life: Resources for primary school teachers
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