Geography at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 3/6)
Unit 16: What's in the news?
Section 8: What is happening in our local area? How and why is the place changing? How will people in the community respond?
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Objectives |
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- about recent or proposed changes in localities?
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Discuss with the children a local issue that they have heard about on the radio.
- Divide the children into small groups and ask each group to develop a radio news report about a local issue considering different arguments by interviewing each other in different roles.
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- understand that different people in the community may respond in different ways to a particular issue
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Points to note |
Speaking and listening: the issue may be explored through role-play.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
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