How will these resources help you?

The Geography National Curriculum aims to ‘develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places’ and ‘extend locational knowledge’ using maps to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India) and the Middle East. Students must develop this knowledge of Africa at KS3, particularly those that go on to GCSE, where they will need this knowledge (AO1/2) for units on the Living World, Resource Management, Natural Hazards and Urban Change. These resources come from the perspective of adventure travel and expeditions. Rather than providing descriptive summaries of the landscape, they build on the student’s geographical imagination as they share the experiences of the authors. Teachers can share extracts for students to develop the sense of place that the curriculum requires. Many students have in-built preconceptions of Africa, and these resources help to challenge those.