Five Steps for Teaching the Geo-Inquiry Process in an ELA …
Sep 17, 2020 · The Geo-Inquiry Process, National Geographic Education’s hallmark approach to exploring our world, applies to curricula and lesson-planning in any scholastic discipline. When viewed through an ELA lens, the Geo-Inquiry Process follows the same creative process and iterations as writing.
What is geographical enquiry - Geographical Association
Geographical enquiry is a ‘student-centred’ approach to learning that involves students in making sense of new information and constructing geographical knowledge. It expects students to think and study like a geographer, and to: Be actively engaged in investigating geographical questions and …
Curriculum making through enquiry - Geographical Association
Margaret Roberts has shown how this approach contains four central aspects: the creation of a ‘need to know’ through the use of an engaging stimulus; the collection and use of data; processing and making sense of that data and finally reflecting on learning in order to apply it to future enquiries.
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Geographical enquiry (menu) - Geographical Association
Students actively enquire into geographical questions and issues, building their geographical understanding and using sources of geographical information as evidence. Engaging with enquiry requires students to make sense of information, think geographically and draw conclusions.
Geographical inquiry - GeogSpace
By the end of Year 10: Students use initial research to identify, develop and modify geographically significant questions to frame an inquiry. They identify and collect a range of primary and secondary sources using ethical protocols, and evaluate sources for …
Geographical inquiry - NSW Department of Education
The stages of inquiry are acquiring geographical information by identifying an issue or problem, developing geographical questions to investigate the issue or problem, collecting primary geographical data, gather geographical information from …
Illustration 1: Developing an inquiry in Years 9-10 Geography
A geographical inquiry uses a logical sequence of more and more specific questions to investigate an issue. There is a recognised structure that is built around four key questions: What and where are the issues being studied? How and why does this issue work?
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Geographical enquiry
Geographical enquiry. Research has revealed different views on the meaning of ‘geographical enquiry’, and why it is important. This article suggests that its meaning is related to why it is important.
Knowing where something is, how its location influences its characteristics, and how its location influences relationships with other phenomena are the foundation of geographic thinking. This mode of investigation asks you to see the world and all that is in it in spatial terms.