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Teachers' area

Curriculum grid

Geography

Parks and gardens provide excellent opportunities for Geography fieldwork: they are safe and contained, and contain many examples of human geography and environmental issues. The main links here are with environmental management and changing land use.

	Geographical enquiry (NC Link)	Geographical skills (NC Link)	Knowledge & Under-standing: Places (NC Link)	Knowledge & Under-standing: Patterns (NC Link)	Knowledge & Under-standing: Change (NC Link)	Breadth of study & QCA schemes	Local studies (NC Link)	Links
De-railed!			*		*
Park stuff (W)	*	*				QCA units 6 and 19	Local fieldwork
I protest!		*			*	Environmental issue		PSHE
Grave questions	*	*	*				Local fieldwork and mapwork
About churches (W)		*					Local fieldwork and mapwork	RE
Grid walk		* maps					Local fieldwork and mapwork
Tree friends (Hillyfields Park)					*	Environmental management		PSHE
Past times	*	*	*				Local data collection
Changing landscape		* maps
Back to nature		*maps	*	*	*	Managing change
Grave decisions			*		*	Managing change	Local fieldwork
Tree friends (Wandsworth Common)					*	Environmental management		PSHE
Industrial parks			*	*	*	Managing change		English