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QCA

Geography at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 12: Images of a country

QCA

Objectives

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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Sections in this unit

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1. What are these places like?
2. What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?
3. What messages are given?
4. Who has chosen these views? Why these views?
5. Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?