| Inspiration and Interpretation |
| To provide experiences by which children can begin to understand how peoples' relationship with nature can influence all aspects of their lives. To show the 'value' of nature to personal development, encouraging students to develop their own ideas, beliefs and values relating to the environment. To record and analyse first hand observations and to provide evidence on which students can express opinions on complex issues. To encourage students to use their imagination to create and develop ideas using words, images and music to convey aesthetic and spiritual moods and feelings.
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Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3, years 7 & 8
Age 11-13 years |
Geography QCA Unit 1 Making Connections.
Art and Design: Unit 7c 'Recreating landscape'; Unit 8c 'Shared view'.
Also supports the curriculum in English, Music and Religious Education.
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| Resistant Materials in our Environment |
| To understand the importance of the
sustainable use of resistant materials in ways which protect
and safeguard the environment whilst still allowing for future
development. |
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Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3 Year 7 & 9
Age 12 - 14 years |
QCA D&T Unit 7A(ii)
‘Understanding
Materials’ (Focus ‘Resistant Materials’).
Also,
Year 9 Units 9aii ‘Selecting Materials - Focus Resistant
Materials’ and
96i and 96ii ‘Designing for Clients’. |
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| Wildness and Wet - Hardwick
Estate Case Study |
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To understand that feeding relationships within a habitat are interrelated.
To appreciate that environmental factors affect the development of food webs, which in turn affects animal and plant diversity and abundance.
To appreciate that levels of bio-diversity vary between eco-systems.
To apply their knowledge of the interrelated factors within a habitat to an environmental issue concerned with habitat protection.
To promote an understanding of the interconnectedness of natural processes taking place in eco-systems.
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Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3
Age 11 - 13 years |
Curriculum links: QCA Science: Unit 8d 'Ecological relationships', Unit 7c 'Environment and feeding relationships', Unit 7d 'Variation and classification' Citizenship: Case study material for 'People and the environment'. |
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| Rocks and Weathering - The
Rock Cycle |
| To promote an understanding of Earth
Science and the role geology plays in shaping the landscape
and our everyday lives. To encourage students to work collaboratively
and in a systematic manner to gain information through observation
of a variety of rocks and minerals. To carry out laboratory
and field investigations safely. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
| Year 8, 12-13 year |
Science: QCA Units 8G and 8H ‘Rocks &
Weathering’, ‘The Rock Cycle’. Geography:
‘Limestone landscapes of England’ |
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| Our Ever Changing Coastal Environment |
| To provide an understanding of the
structure of the British coastline and its environments and
the large scale forces that are constantly operating to change
them. Our management of coastlines must be harmonised with these
forces if we are both to live and work safely and conserve our
coastline’s rich biological and cultural heritage. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3 Year 8
Age 12 - 13 yrs |
Geography QCA Unit -‘Coastal Environments’ |
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| Sustainable Development and Shopping |
| To develop an understanding of Sustainable
Development through the theme of shopping |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3 - Year 8/9
Ages 12 - 13 years |
QCA Unit 9 Geography, ‘Shopping -
past, present and future’ and
Unit 14e, ‘Can the earth cope? Ecosystems, population
and resources.’ |
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| Recreation and Tourism |
| To promote an understanding of tourism
and leisure activities in relationship to the environment in
general, and biodiversity and earth heritage conservation in
particular. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3 - Years 7- 9
Age 11-14 yrs |
KS3/Yrs 7 -9 Citizenship - Leisure and sport
in the local community
KS3/Yr9, Geography - Tourism - good or bad? |
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| Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries |
| To provide a basic understanding
of the structure and dynamics of marine ecosystems, and to show
how human activity disrupts them with particular reference to
the sustainable management of marine fisheries. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
| Key Stage 3 Age 11-14 yrs |
Yr9 Geography QCA unit 16 'Local action, globabl
effects', Science QCA unit 9c 'Plants and photosynthesis' and
Design and Technology QCA unit 9ai 'Selecting materials - focus:food'.
Yr 7 - 9 Citizenship QCA units 20 'What's in the public interest'
and 21 'People and the environment' and Science QCA unit 8d
'Ecological relationships' |
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| Agriculture and the Environment
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| To introduce pupils to the science
of agriculture and its impacts on the environment. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
| Key Stage 3 Year 9 |
Mainly based on QCA Science Unit 9D ‘Plants
for food’, with links to QCA units 9A Inheritance and
Selection, 9G Environmental Chemistry and 9C Plants and Photosynthesis.
The unit also links to Education for Sustainable Development,
Design and Technology Unit 9a Selecting Materials-Focus: food
and the Geography Year 9 unit 23 Local Action, Global Effects. |
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| Sustainable Development and Quality
of Life |
| To develop an understanding of environmental
choices and consequences. |
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| Age group |
Curriculum links |
Key Stage 3 - Years 8/9,
Age 13-14 years |
Geography ‘Can the Earth cope?’ ‘Images
of a country’, ‘Local Action, Global Effects.’ |
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