Use of Concept Map in
Teaching S4-5
Geography Curriculum
Presented by Linda Lam
Buddhist Tai Hung College
What are our new
focuses?
3-I Approaches
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Inductive teaching (think critically
and logically through interactive
activities, make value clarification
and judgment)
Issue-based approach (problem
solving skills)
Integrated approach (concepts with
tight lessons linkage)
Constructive
Plate
Boundary
Macro-concept map:
Plate
Tectonic
Endogenetic
Processes
Destructive Plate
Boundary
Global
Warning
Conservative
Plate
Boundary
Natural
Hazards
Land
Climate
Temperate Maritime
Continental Climate
(Xinjiang)
Agriculture
Tropical Arid
Climate
(Somalia)
Nomadic Herding
in Sahel
Technology
Tsunamis
Tropical
Humid
Climate
Urban Encroachment
City
Sustainable
City
Irrigation farming
in
Southern
California
Urban Renewal
Choice of
Power
Coal
Exogenetic Processes
And Landform
Nuclea
r
Industry
Oil
Information
Technology
Industry
Volcanic Eruptions,
Earthquakes
Temperate Maritime
Climate (Shandong)
Food and
Hunger
H.E.P.
Iron and Steel
Industry
The Trouble of
Water
Key:
Issues
Erosion, Transportation
and Deposition
Themes
Our focus
Lesson Plan
Key Question for the topic:
Is Famine in Ethiopia incurable?
Lesson 1:
How does famine affect the people in the world?
Lesson 2 and 3:
Why are famines frequently happening in developing countries but not in developed countries?
Lesson 4:
Why does famine happen in Ethiopia?
Lesson 8:
How do the factors in the farming
system affecting the farming activities?
Lesson 5:
How do climatic factors affect Ethiopia?
Lesson 6 and 7:
Why there is a surplus
energy budget in Ethiopia?
Lesson 9 and 10:
What’s wrong with the farming in Sahel?
Lesson 11:
How can we help to solve famine in Sahel, especially in Ethiopia?
Key:
Lesson sequence
Concept related
Lesson 1
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How does famine affect the people in the
world?
Organizing idea: Famine is a severe kind of
food shortage that causes the deaths of
many people in less developed countries,
especially in central and southern Africa.
Activities: Photos interpretation, video
interpretation, newspaper clips
interpretation
Lesson 2 and 3
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Why are famines frequently happening in
less developed countries but not in developed
countries?
Organizing idea: The world now grows enough
food for everyone, so the famine and hunger
problems are more a result of the uneven
distribution of food. People’s ability to obtain
food in the world is determined by the level of
development of their country.
Activities: Simulation game (Millionaire VS.
Hunger), locate countries on the “Model of
African Map”
Lesson 4
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Why does famine happen in Ethiopia?
Organizing idea: Taking Ethiopia as a
case study, causes of famine in this
country can be examined and these
factors are divided into two categories -- physical and human-induced
Activities: Newspaper interpretation,
data interpretation and analysis
Lesson 5
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How do climatic factors affect Ethiopia?
Organizing ideas: The global climate
changes with latitude and it explain the
role of tropical arid climate catalyzing the
problem of famine in Ethiopia
Activities: video and pictures
interpretation, simulation game, locate
countries on the map, data analysis
Lesson 6 and 7
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Why there is a surplus energy budget in
Ethiopia? (Experiment: Which location on
earth is warmer?)
Organizing idea: The insolation on the
earth’s surface is unevenly distributed that
causes a surplus and deficit energy budget
in different locations
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Activities: Experiment, data analysis
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Lesson 8
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How do the factors in the farming system affecting the
farming activities?
Organizing idea: Both positive and negative impacts of the
physical factors (Solar energy, temperature, rainfall, soil
and relief) and human factors (labour, capital, transport,
technology, institution, perception) in the farming system
will affect the outputs of the farming activities and
eventually leads to different types of farming activities
being performed in different locations in the world
Activities: Sorting Cards Game (Playing cards!), Identifying
photographs of different types of farming
Lesson 9 and 10
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What’s wrong with the farming in Sahel?
Organizing idea: Most people in Sahel is
practicing nomadic herding and both the
constraints in physical factors and human factors
in the farming systems has lead to poor
productive and failure of harvest in Sahel and
eventually lead to famine.
Activities: locate countries on the “Model of
African Map”, Draw a farming system (What’s the
farming system in Sahel?)
Lesson 11
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How can we help to solve famine in Sahel,
especially in Ethiopia?
Organizing idea: International food aid
cannot effectively help ease famine in the
long-term, while the self-help programmes
that help the poor to increase food
production and income as well as birth
control can be claimed as a better method
for ease famine
Activities: Simulation game (Helping the
poor~)
Concept Map in Classroom Activities
for Stimulations
Experience sharing – F.4 Debate
Contact: lindalam_@hotmail.com