Geography for 4th Class

The class finds the catchment as one connected system: the high ground, the water that leaves it, and the living things that depend on each place along the way. Two field lessons survey the high point and the watercourse, and the module closes on one stewardship action the class chooses and can genuinely carry out.

1. Finding Our Catchment
2. 1 Everything Runs Downhill
3. 2 From the High Point
4. 3 The Map Wall, Layered
5. Water, Life and One Action
6. 4 Following the Water
7. 5 Two Places, Two Communities
8. 6 One Thing We Will Actually Do

The class follows water, land, food and transport to real decisions somebody makes about them, measures its own use rather than assuming it, and tests one real local proposal against the module's data, learning that data can support an argument without settling it.

1. Water and Land Use
2. 7 Where Our Water Comes from, and Who Decides
3. 8 The Land-use Transect
4. 9 Reading the Transect
5. Food, Travel and a Real Proposal
6. 10 Where the Food in One Shop Comes From
7. 11 How We Get About Sample lesson
8. 12 Testing a Real Proposal

The class builds a proper count of local employment, walks the services and workplaces, sets the profile against a contrasting Irish place, traces stopped work in the landscape, weighs why it changed, and proposes one kind of work that could realistically happen here from the map layers alone.

1. Work Counted and Compared
2. 13 What This Place Works at Now
3. 14 The Services and Workplaces Walk
4. 15 Somewhere Quite Different
5. What Changed, and What Could Work
6. 16 What the Landscape Remembers
7. 17 Why It Changed
8. 18 What Could Work Here

The class places its catchment inside Ireland's, weighs different answers to the bog, records a local response to a real environmental challenge, reads the national transport and electricity networks against the land, accounts for one route's course, and audits what of those networks actually reaches its own place.

1. Landscape and Local Response
2. 19 Our Catchment Inside Ireland's
3. 20 The Bog
4. 21 The Challenge This Place Has
5. Networks Over the Land
6. 22 The Networks, Layered
7. 23 Why the Line Goes That Way
8. 24 What Actually Reaches Us

The class measures shadows and weather carefully, checks the Earth model against its own numbers, proves the seasons by taking the tilt away, compares Ireland with places at very different latitudes, and links the moon and (where coastal) the tide to the working year.

1. Shadows and the Tilt
2. 25 Shadows, Measured Properly
3. 26 What the Shadows Prove
4. 27 Long Days and Short Days
5. Weather, Latitude and the Working Year
6. 28 A Longer Weather Record
7. 29 Somewhere with a Very Different Sun
8. 30 The Moon, the Tide and the Working Year

At the widest scale the class steps the map out to the continent, compares major features on what made them and on felt scale, maps places in Ireland that traditions attach to, practises locating on Ireland and Europe maps, and closes on children's daily lives elsewhere connected to the geography of each place.

1. Borders, Origins and Scale
2. 31 Ireland in Europe, and Where the Lines Are
3. 32 What Made These Features
4. 33 Scale, Felt Properly
5. Places, Names and Children Elsewhere
6. 34 Places That Hold a Tradition
7. 35 Holding the Map
8. 36 Children Somewhere Else