At the end of this unit
most pupils will: describe and explain how physical and human processes interact to produce distinctive characteristics of places and environments; recognise how conflicting demands on different types of environment may arise and describe and compare different approaches to managing these environments sustainably; appreciate that different values and attitudes, including their own, result in different approaches that have different effects on people and places; suggest relevant geographical questions and appropriate sequences of investigation of environmental issues; select and use effectively a range of skills and sources of evidence; present their findings in a coherent way and reach conclusions that are consistent with the evidence
some pupils will not have made so much progress and will: describe and begin to explain how physical and human processes can lead to similarities and differences in the environments of different places and in the lives of people who live there; suggest explanations for the ways in which human activities cause changes to different types of environment and the different views people hold about them; recognise how people try to manage environments sustainably; begin to suggest relevant questions to investigate environmental issues; select and use appropriate skills and sources of evidence; suggest plausible conclusions to their investigations and present their findings both graphically and in writing
some pupils will have progressed further and will: describe interactions within and between physical and human processes and explain how these interactions help change different types of environments; begin to explain that human actions, including their own, may have unintended environmental consequences and that change sometimes leads to conflict; appreciate that consideration of sustainable development can affect their own lives as well as the planning and management of all environments and resources; identify geographical questions and establish their own sequence of investigation of environmental issues; select and use accurately and effectively a wide range of skills; evaluate critically sources of evidence; present full and coherently argued summaries of their investigations and reach substantiated conclusions
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