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QCA

Geography at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 12: Images of a country

QCA

Outcomes

Section 1: What are these places like?
Children:
  • apply the DCR prompts to analyse a photograph
  • identify accurately physical and human features in a photograph
  • describe an image well enough to enable another pupil to draw it

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Section 2: What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?
Children:
  • draw out positive and negative aspects of an image
  • communicate their own ideas and feelings about an image

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Section 3: What messages are given?
Children:
  • identify similarities and differences within and between places, tabulating their ideas into a writing frame
  • suggest a location for a photograph and justify their decision

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Section 4: Who has chosen these views? Why these views?
Children:
  • explain why a particular image is chosen, in relation to interest, bias and implicit values
  • select images of their own locality for a specific purpose

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Section 5: Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?
Children:
  • begin to challenge their own perceptions of a place, appreciating that perceptions can be misinformed
  • offer alternative images to challenge other people's perceptions of places
  • appreciate the power of the media in influencing people's views
  • appreciate how other people's lifestyles may be more sustainable than their own
  • identify ways in which their interpretation of images is improved

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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?