Curriculum Development Of High School Geography Activity Based On Local Resources

Currently, based on various reasons, many students in high school attach great importance to the results instead of process and think highly of achievements rather than moralities. Geography has regionalism and comprehensiveness naturally. Learning about the hometown first and then the world from the perspective of geography doesn’t only cultivate their personal abilities, but also help students understand and cope with college entrance examinations by deepening the exploration of geographical processes. In order to improve the above situations, it is proposed that geographical activities in light of local geography curriculum resources should be performed. Besides, this subject is a personal interest. To promote geography activities curriculum extensively, a systematic, complete and feasible development process should be established. Through literature reading, the curriculum development process from condition analysis, curriculum objectives, curriculum setting, curriculum implementation, curriculum evaluation to feedback and revision of curriculum objectives was proposed.The most important carrier of the curriculum is local geography curriculum resources. By literature reading, it is raised that local geography curriculum resources in a broad sense refer to the characteristics of the geographical environment of the school location (county or municipal area) and the conditions inside and outside of the school which serve the realization of the curriculum objectives. Local geography curriculum resources in a narrow sense refer to the concrete carriers of the teaching objectives of local geography curriculum. It is proposed creatively that subject systems and regional analysis framework should be integrated to select local curriculum resources in order to avoid simply listing regional characteristics and the inappropriate degree of specialization. The principles of selecting local geography curriculum are put forward: The degree of specialization should be appropriate. They should have typical regional characteristics and features and be in line with the school’s features. In the process of resource selection, the four-in-one dominant role of teachers, leaders, students and parents should be prominently expressed so as to avoid the situations where students’ opinions and parents’opinions are lacked.The activity curriculum based on local geography resources is divided into two parts. The in-class part is performed combined with geography teaching and the out-of-class part is accomplished relying on the research-study and school-based curriculum. The utilization of local geography curriculum resources in geography activity courses is divided into three situations, respectively--utilizing local geography curriculum resources to cultivate students’ability to acquire geographic information; regarding local geography curriculum resources as teaching cases, example materials and research topics; taking local geography course resources as the carrier for students to understand the local geography knowledge.