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Overall the series aims to increase the pupil's awareness of and interest in their local environment. The programmes will provide a stimulus for study inside and outside the classroom. It will expand their awareness of people and places and how people use the earth's natural resources close to home.

About the Programme
Programme 3 - Mournes
Broadcast: 9th May 2006 BBC 2 NI 10.30 -10.50am

ARCHIVE - SELB programme code :TD 0053

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MournesThis programme looks at the natural environment of the Mournes and finds out about some of the human activities connected with the Mournes.


Learning Outcomes

This unit will support the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum for Geography at KS2. It will expand their awareness of people and places and how people use the earth's natural resources close to home. By the end of the programme the pupils will have learned about:

  • Enquiry skills - encouraging observing, recording, presenting and discussing. Map work skills - using plans, photographs and maps at different scales and for different purposes;
    - Using a key of O.S. symbols to identify some familiar features;
    - Using the contents and index in an atlas to locate places - e.g. within the six counties of Northern Ireland .
  • The importance of natural resources;
    - The effect of the use of a natural resource and the steps which can be taken to conserve the environment;
    - How the use or demand for a resource in one place can harm the environment in another place.


Teaching Resources

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3: Mournes
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3-4: Mournes, Lough Neagh
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Unit Programmes
Programme 3:
Mournes
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Programme 4:
Lough Neagh
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