Learning Strategies
Goals
- To offer quality education, which enables students to master knowledge, concepts and skills of Humanities within the context of PSHE key stages 3.
- To enable students to apply the above knowledge and skills to daily experience.
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To enable students to develop the following generic skills :
- collaboration skills
- communication skills
- creativity
- critical thinking skills
- information technology skills
- numeracy skills
- problem-solving skills
- self-management skills
- study skills, and
- To develop students' multiple intelligence.
- To develop students' attitude conducive to full participation in adult life and citizenship.
Teaching strategies
- Using concepts, issues or problems as organizing centre of curriculum
- Helping students master basic concepts, skills and develop values and attitudes
- Catering for students' learning diversity with group work, project work and on-line supplementary materials
- Making learning relevant to students' everyday life
- Organizing a variety of extra-curricular activities
Curriculum
Secondary 1 Integrated Humanities
- Using Urban Space Wisely
- Unit 1 Urban land use
- Unit 2 Residential and industrial land uses
- Unit 3 Central Business District
- Unit 4 Urban problems
- Unit 5 Solutions to urban problems
- Rights and Responsibilities of Citizen
- Rights, duties and the rule of law
- Topic 2 The development of European civilization
- I Classical civilization: overview of ancient Greek and ancient Roman civilizations
- II Medieval Europe and the making of Christendom
- Topic 4 History, culture and heritage of early Hong Kong region
- I Major groups and great clans in Hong Kong
- II Understanding the life of local residents through Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage
Secondary 2 Integrated Humanities
- Tourists Friends or Foes?
- Unit 1 Tourism and the travel pattern of Hong Kong people
- Unit 2 Impacts of Tourism
- Unit 3 Tourism in Hong Kong
- Global Shift of Manufacturing Industry. Opportunities and threats
- Unit 1 Industry and manufacturing
- Unit 2 Relocation of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry
- Unit 3 Global shift of manufacturing
- Topic 5 The rise of modern Europe
- I From God-centred to human-centred: the Renaissance and Reformation
- II The Age of Reason: the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- III Technological advancement: the Industrial Revolution
- IV Pursuit of liberty and democracy: the French Revolution and its historical significance