year 7 learning challenge: summer 2014

YEAR 7Learning

Challenge:Summer 2014

RGS Young Geographer of the Year Competition

From the Royal Geographical Society

Your task is to answer this question

“HOW CAN GEOGRAPHY HELP YOU?”

You need to answer this question fulfilling the criteria on the next slides:

Describe and explain the differences between at least two settings in which Geography helps you

This can be• At school• At home with your family• When you travel and go on holidays• Whether it will help you with further study

or a future career you’d like to go into

Show accurate use of scale and symbols in any diagrams used

Think back to the map skills work we did at the beginning of the year in Geography!

Use a range of visual data sources

• Maps• Graphs• Diagrams• Charts• Pictures• Symbols

Describe whether each of your data sets is economic, social, environmental, political

For example if you are talking about how Geography helped you understand more about the World Cup and the lives of people in Brazil, this would be social. If you were to talk about the money Brazil made during the World Cup this would be economic.

What are they looking for?• The FUN and SERIOUS sides of

Geography• How you can relate the value of

Geography to different settings• Recognition of the value of both

human and physical Geography• USE GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS

How will I present it?• Your work needs to be presented as

an annotated diagram or map (Maximum size A3)

Previous entries…(Remember these students had a different

question)

• You need to bring your Learning Challenge in on Monday 8th September and hand it to your tutor .

• We will short list the entries and send them to the YGOTY panel. Winners will be announced in November