Strand: Human Environments, People living and working in the local area and People living and working in a contrasting part of Ireland.
Strand unit: people living and working in the local area and people living and working in a contrasting part of Ireland.
Settlement: homes and other buildings
Explore, investigate and come to appreciate the major features of the built environment in the locality and in a contrasting part of Ireland.
Objectives as listed in the geography curriculum
The child will be enabled to:
- Explore, investigate and come to appreciate the major features of the built environment in the locality and in a contrasting part of Ireland.
Location and uses of buildings
- Change, reconstruction and re-use of buildings.
- Shape/layout of features in the area.
Natural environmental features and people
The child will be enabled to:
- Become aware of the natural features in the locality and in a contrasting part of Ireland and their interrelationship with the lives of the people living in these places.
Major natural features, flora and fauna
- Interrelationships of these features and the lives and work of people.
- Changes to the natural environment and their causes.
Transport and communications
The child will be enabled to:
- Learn about the methods of transport and transport routes in the locality and in a contrasting part of Ireland.
- Become aware of the advantages, disadvantages and roles of these methods.