Key Learning Objectives

• To develop thinking skills (Sorting, Sequencing and Classification.)
• To understand the term interdependency.
• To understand that local decisions can have economical, social and environmental consequences on a global scale.

Who is it for?

Years 7-9 KS3

Years 10-11 KS4 (resources can be adapted for this group)

A wide range of mixed ability and age groups. Obviously each teacher knows its classes and their ability, any statements and PowerPoint questions can be modified for differentiation.

What are the key themes?

• Place
• The banana industry in the Windward Isles
• Fairtrade
• Interdependency and how local decisions in the UK (Ashbourne) can have Social/ Economic/ Environmental impacts on the Windward Isles (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
• Sustainable development
• Empathy

How does it address the curriculum?

KS3 – Geographical enquiry and skills

1a) Ask geographical questions and identify issues

c) Use of statistical information about countries

d) Analyse and evaluate evidence, draw and justify conclusions

e) Appreciate how people’s values and attitudes, including their own, affect contemporary social, environmental, economic and political issues, and to clarify and develop their own values and attitudes about such issues.

Geographical skills

2a) To use extended geographical vocabulary.

• To use atlases and maps.
• Decision-making skills.

Knowledge & understanding of places

3a) The location of places and environments studied.

• To explain how and why changes happen in places and that the issues that arise from these changes.
• To explain how places are interdependent and to explore the idea of global citizenship.

Knowledge & understanding of environmental change & sustainable development

• explore the idea of sustainable development and recognise its implications for people, places and environments and for their own links.

Breadth of study

6iii) Development

7b) Different parts of the world and different environments.