Use of Concept Map in Teaching S45 Geography Curriculum

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Use of Concept Map in Teaching S4-5 Geography
Curriculum

• Presented by Linda Lam
• Buddhist Tai Hung College

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• What are our new
• focuses?

3-I Approaches
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• Inductive teaching (think critically and
  logically through interactive activities, make
  value clarification and judgment)
• Issue-based approach (problem solving skills)
• Integrated approach (concepts with tight lessons
  linkage)

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Macro-concept map
Key
Issues
Themes
Our focus
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Lesson Plan
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Lesson 1

• How does famine affect the people in the world?
• Organizing idea Famine is a severe kind of food
  shortage that causes the deaths of many people in
  less developed countries, especially in central
  and southern Africa.
• Activities Photos interpretation, video
  interpretation, newspaper clips interpretation

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Lesson 2 and 3

• Why are famines frequently happening in less
  developed countries but not in developed
  countries?
• Organizing idea The world now grows enough food
  for everyone, so the famine and hunger problems
  are more a result of the uneven distribution of
  food. Peoples ability to obtain food in the
  world is determined by the level of development
  of their country.
• Activities Simulation game (Millionaire VS.
  Hunger), locate countries on the Model of
  African Map

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Lesson 4

• Why does famine happen in Ethiopia?
• Organizing idea Taking Ethiopia as a case study,
  causes of famine in this country can be examined
  and these factors are divided into two categories
  --- physical and human-induced
• Activities Newspaper interpretation, data
  interpretation and analysis

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Lesson 5

• How do climatic factors affect Ethiopia?
• Organizing ideas The global climate changes with
  latitude and it explain the role of tropical arid
  climate catalyzing the problem of famine in
  Ethiopia
• Activities video and pictures interpretation,
  simulation game, locate countries on the map,
  data analysis

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Lesson 6 and 7

• Why there is a surplus energy budget in Ethiopia?
  (Experiment Which location on earth is warmer?)
• Organizing idea The insolation on the earths
  surface is unevenly distributed that causes a
  surplus and deficit energy budget in different
  locations
• Activities Experiment, data analysis

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Lesson 8

• How do the factors in the farming system
  affecting the farming activities?
• Organizing idea Both positive and negative
  impacts of the physical factors (Solar energy,
  temperature, rainfall, soil and relief) and human
  factors (labour, capital, transport, technology,
  institution, perception) in the farming system
  will affect the outputs of the farming activities
  and eventually leads to different types of
  farming activities being performed in different
  locations in the world
• Activities Sorting Cards Game (Playing cards!),
  Identifying photographs of different types of
  farming

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Lesson 9 and 10

• Whats wrong with the farming in Sahel?
• Organizing idea Most people in Sahel is
  practicing nomadic herding and both the
  constraints in physical factors and human factors
  in the farming systems has lead to poor
  productive and failure of harvest in Sahel and
  eventually lead to famine.
• Activities locate countries on the Model of
  African Map, Draw a farming system (Whats the
  farming system in Sahel?)

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Lesson 11

• How can we help to solve famine in Sahel,
  especially in Ethiopia?
• Organizing idea International food aid cannot
  effectively help ease famine in the long-term,
  while the self-help programmes that help the poor
  to increase food production and income as well as
  birth control can be claimed as a better method
  for ease famine
• Activities Simulation game (Helping the poor)

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Concept Map in Classroom Activities for
Stimulations
Experience sharing F.4 Debate
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