Geography at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 12: Images of a country
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Section 1: What are these places like?
Children should learn:
- how to classify information using DCR
- to use secondary sources of evidence, including photographs
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Section 2: What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?
Children should learn:
- to use various strategies for analysing photographs
- to project themselves into a photo scene
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Section 3: What messages are given?
Children should learn:
- to use photographs to compare places at different states of economic development
- to apply their knowledge to locate a photograph of a place
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Section 4: Who has chosen these views? Why these views?
Children should learn:
- to clarify and develop their own values and attitudes
- how to examine carefully the material they use
- to apply new ideas in a familiar context
- to use fieldwork equipment
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Section 5: Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?
Children should learn:
- how to question initial perceptions
- to understand perceptions are often misinformed
- that media have the power to influence people's perceptions of places
- to examine images for evidence of sustainability
- to reflect on and evaluate their own performance
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