'Challenge moments' in geography lessons: promoting critical thinking

摘要

One of my favourite year 7 lesson sequences is teaching about settlement site and situation. It aligns the core geographical concepts of place and the natural environment (Lambert, 2011), and understanding the factors that determine settlement situation is vital if students are to understand the relationship between the human and natural worlds. This article takes the settlement theme as an example to demonstrate a teaching and learning tool which I have called 'challenge moments', and which I have found invaluable to encourage geography students to think critically.