Denny High Geography

Staff:

Mrs C. Ditchfield

Miss G. Glen

Geography helps students make sense of the world around them. It helps students get to grips with some of the big questions which affect our world and understand the social, economic and physical forces and processes which shape and change our world.

There are many ways we learn in Geography. Since it is a practical subject it means there are opportunities lo learn new skills such as map skills, interpreting photographs, fieldwork skills, presenting, role playing and debating techniques. It helps improve students’ literacy through report writing and written work and make practical use of numeracy skills through the interpretation of data and the construction of graphs.

Geography helps students make sense of the world around them. It helps students get to grips with some of the big questions which affect our world and understand the social, economic and physical forces and processes which shape and change our world.

There are many ways we learn in Geography. Since it is a practical subject it means there are opportunities lo learn new skills such as map skills, interpreting photographs, fieldwork skills, presenting, role playing and debating techniques. It helps improve students’ literacy through report writing and written work and make practical use of numeracy skills through the interpretation of data and the construction of graphs.

At Denny High school we study the following topics in S1 and S2

S1                                                                                           S2

National Parks                                                                       Plate tectonics

Limestone landscapes                                                           Impacts of hazards

Map skills                                                                               Population  

Climate graphs                                                                      Development         

Weathering and erosion                                                        Contrasting climates

Land use and conflict