Our landscapes

Schools work in collaboration to understand landscapes by examining their own locality. They produce a leaflet for their partner school on their local landscape and prepare mini-lessons to explain what they have learned on the subject using chats, forums or video conference facilities. Finally they gather all the material from both schools in a PowerPoint presentation, a webpage or a classroom display.

Age group: any
Duration: long term
ICT tools: email, presentation tools, photos, video, chat, video conference, etc.
Subject: Geography, Geographical Science
Theme: Landscapes

Pedagogical value:

Understanding the formation, role and value of landscapes is a fundamental geographical approach. Teachers must be able to use local features to explain the origins and activities of people and places in their local region. So, the investigation of topics such as water, rocks, land features, weather and ecology are essential to enhance geographical understanding and awareness. This can be further enriched by sharing or comparing contrasting localities. The locality study is thus the basis of many excellent geographical lessons. Working actively to gather and collect scientific information on landscapes and features can provide a lot of data to work with so that pupils are able to examine scientifically relevant results.

Teachers and pupils can examine their own locality and compare it with those of other places, so international collaboration can be encouraged.

Objectives:

Pupils learn how to:

• Explore physical landscapes.
• Recognise and understand the formation of features.
• Gather and investigate information.
• Measure and collect information (scientific data, landscape sketches or photographs).
• Describe landscapes, carry out an analysis of information and draw inferences about the physical landscape and impact of people on the environment.
• Compare landscapes and lifestyles use different ways of presenting information.
• Analyse and evaluate data.

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	Web Editor:	Nuria de Salvador

	Published :	19/12/2005

	Last changed :	15/02/2007

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