GEOstories have been written to supplement the content for each Content Focus Area. These stories range in size from a couple to several pages and include supporting illustrative material. The stories go beyond the narrative to engage with geographical content, tools, skills, and concepts. Each is supported by activities that allow students to demonstrate understanding, develop skills and engage in critical thinking. There are several ways the GEOstories can be used as: - an introduction to a syllabus content area or option study - a conversation starter - an additional illustrative example for a case study - to differentiate the content for specific students - to develop skills using the maps, graphs, illustrations, and photographs - build critical thinking skills - to generate interest about places on that Friday afternoon lesson, between major topics, end of term or as homework or formative assessment activities. Following are examples from each content focus area. GEOstory 1.1 is about ‘Inspirational Wildlife Migrations’. This can be used in the overview of Earth’s natural Systems to discuss the wonder of the natural world. It could also be used as an illustrative example when covering Earth’s ecological systems and cycles or as an example of the importance of the ecological connections between the Arctic and the rest of the world during the case study of the Arctic Region in Focus Area Human Environment Interactions. A proportional circle map showing terrestrial wildlife migrations could be used to develop map reading skills. GEOstory 4.4 ‘Churchill: A story of human resilience’ can be used as an introduction for option Study 1: Human resilience in diverse environments for the Focus Area: People, Patterns and Processes. This would then be followed by the depth study ‘Venice: Human ingenuity and resilience’. It embeds important concepts such as climate change and permafrost and looks at human responses to change. Alternatively, for a student who needs a modified curriculum or is following the Life Skill Geography course this story has ample content and geographical tools such as a map, illustration and photographs to satisfy syllabus outcomes… and it involves polar bears. This is also a useful story to supplement the Arctic Region option study for Human – Environment Interactions.
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