Our Geography curriculum aims: 

The Mosslands geography department believe that there are few things more fundamental than learning about ‘the earth as our home’. 

The key theme for our curriculum is: 

‘Geography is the study of the earth as a home to humankind’ (Johnson, 1985). 

Through their understanding of geography, we aim to: 

• Provide students with the means to think about the world in new ways - ’thinking like a geographer’. 

• Provide students with the geographical knowledge they need to understand contemporary challenges facing our planet and to live their lives as knowledgeable citizens - aware of their own communities in a global setting. 

• Provide students with the means to (and the necessary knowledge to) question and debate the knowledge: such as that they have the skills to be active participants and investigators - rather than passive recipients of knowledge. 

• Expose students to geographical enquiry - allowing them to deepen their conceptual understanding through reasoning, interpreting data, arguing their point and undertaking fieldwork. 

For that reason, our curriculum is built around rigorous, challenging and intriguing enquiry questions. 

“Questions open out a topic rather than closing it down” (Roberts, 2013) 

 

 

What will you study in geography?