Sustainable development

Lesson plan 2

Cross-curricular links

Citizenship:
At KS3 students should develop a broad knowledge of their rights and responsibilities, and of the different organizations at local, national and international level that support fair and democratic government of people and places. Students should also be taking part in broader school and local community activities and be aware of their individual and collective responsibilities to themselves, and to other people locally, nationally and internationally.

In particular, this element requires understanding of national and international organizations, how international politics work, and how international agreements are made (e.g. UN).

QCA unit 8: Leisure and Sport in the local community.

Sections 1, 2 and 3: Which leisure facilities should be provided in the local community?
Section 4: How are local planning decisions made?
Section 5: Why does leisure and sport need regulations?

QCA unit 20: What is in the Public Interest?

Geography:
At KS3 Geography, students should be making links and connections between themselves and the world at different scales, they should understand causes and consequences of geographical events and human and natural activities, and consider the possible solutions or different ways of managing outcomes. In particular, there should be a focus on sustainable management of the earth’s resources and how they are managed at local, national and international levels. How local actions have impacts globally across time and space is a vital understanding for students.

QCA unit 1: Making Connections

QCA unit 14: Can the earth cope? Ecosystems, people, and resources

Section 5: What are the effects on the environment of this resource use?
Section 6: How can resources be planned and managed?
Section 7: Why should we study resource issues?

QCA unit 16: What is Development?

Section 3: What is development? Why are different perspectives important?

In particular, students should make links and connections between their knowledge of geography in relation to:

Work and employment issues
Environmental sustainable development
Globalisation, international trade and sharing experiences/cultures and ways forward. Future geographies: how local events have global consequences and global events have local consequences.

English
Students should work together to build up reasoned arguments supported by secondary resources and data. They should apply their written and oral persuasive skills by developing arguments that apply their understanding of links between people and places at different scales, and consider the consequences of events.