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Geography education: People, places, environments (Concepts: (Direction…
Geography education: People, places, environments
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Aspects like "people,places, and environment"
Asking geographic questions - Its natural that young learners ask questions, driven by curiosity of the world
Aquiring geographic info - Locate, collect, process info from different sources
Organising geographic info - this skill is learned in pre-school, lots of activities to support learning of this skill
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Answering geographic questions - Final stage in thinking/ problem solving process is reaching conclusions. Learners present findings
Observation skills - learners must explore and experience nature themselves, need to teach children to observe using all of their senses
Interdependency - One form of life is dependend on another, by observing they will become aware of their influence on another life.(classroom pet)
Aesthetic Awareness - Appreciate beauty of life around you. Learner become aware of chain of life and concern more to protect their environment
Social Consciousness - How to protect environment, Recycle Reduce, Reuse
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Force and time - limp, energetic, light, slow, quick
Space - where the body is in space, extension of body part in space
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Weight - body relationship to the ground, body momentum
Working with others - develop trust, work with other to solve problems
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Up and down - learned through games, role play, songs.
Left and right - develop gradually, learners have to mature, grow and move in space to develop this concept
Cardinal Directions - (N, E,S,W) learning should be informal, foundation phase are not able to understand this concept
Relative position - Where are object in relation to their position, in front, behind, left, right, above.
Location - develope during infancy. by pre-school learners have an understanding of spatial relationship between objects. (home addresses, locate class while outside, street signs that indicate location
Distance and measurement - teaching must be informal, use hands, feet or sticks to practice. near, far, deep, wide.
Introducing maps - abstraction of reality, learners in FP don't have sufficient skills, they still need to play with maps to form a foundation
Survey the learners - try to figure out what knowledge learners have of maps. Show them a map of their own city
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Develop concepts - to understand maps, learners need to know that maps represent something else
Geographers study how humans and environments relate, how people adapt to environments, pro's and con's of a human settlement
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Depend on others for food, clothes etc
Share info using phones, newspapers etc.
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ACTIVITIES: take trips to local supermarket, Study school communication system
Area that includes a number of places, they have something in common
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Define by climate, land form, vegetation
Intergrating study of regions with study of habits in science, learners wil se connection between regions and how life is affected by environment
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Defined by art, music, literature, social organization
learners teach each other their culture, listen to stories or folktales of other nations