How to Infiltrate Local Geography in Junior Middle School Geography Teaching

I. Importance of Local Geography The Geography Curriculum Standard for Full-time Compulsory Education has the following requirements and suggestions for local geography learning: 1. Local geography is a compulsory content; 2. Local geography helps students understand the living environment in the area where the school is located, guides students to apply what they have learned, cultivates students' practical ability, establishes the concept of sustainable development, and strengthens the feelings of patriotism and love for their hometown; Advocate comprehensive learning with local geography as the carrier. How to carry out comprehensive study with local geography as the carrier and carry out effective and innovative inquiry and practice activities! Diversification of curriculum forms is a new concept, and there are two models of curriculum forms for reference. First, the local geography course is set up separately, and the special materials are selected. There are many knowledge growth points in the teaching materials, which can be connected with other disciplines horizontally, and the research-oriented courses can be deepened vertically to construct an open curriculum form; The second is to integrate with related disciplines and set up local comprehensive practice courses. This can concentrate limited teaching hours and fragmented teachers, optimize the organizational form of extracurricular activities, embody the principle of simplicity and efficiency, and improve the comprehensive benefits of teaching and learning. At the same time, it also contributes to the formation of local cultural atmosphere on campus and the re-promotion of school characteristics. Therefore, we should understand the design and implementation of local comprehensive practical activity class from the height of school-based curriculum development. Related issues such as discipline integration, construction of comprehensive practice base, and research guidance of students' small projects need to be deeply considered. Second, the combination of geography teaching and local geography research activities. Local geography learning practice is for all students, which is not only a way to cultivate students' interest in learning geography, but also a practical requirement of local geography teaching. Local research activities are special research activities in the form of groups or individuals. Our investigation on the local geography of the third grade students in our school shows that some students have a strong interest in the origin of hometown place names, historical figures, environmental protection and other research topics. We can guide them to do some in-depth inquiry learning in teaching. Or provide students with practical and exploratory topics, such as folk proverbs, weather conditions, famous tourism resources (Biyun Cave, Panxian Cave, etc. ), agricultural industrial structure (animal husbandry, changing slope to ladder, returning farmland to forest, etc.). ), major natural disasters (heavy rains, flash floods, mudslides, etc.). ), project construction (Xiangshui Coal Mine, Long Reservoir, Song He Coal Mine, red fruit circular economy briquette coking, etc. To guide students in-depth investigation and study of practical activities, the process should generally follow the following steps. Establish the specific implementation plan of the stage investigation and study, including the personnel, objects, time, place, specific objectives or indicators, specific methods and steps of this investigation and study. The implementation of investigation is the key link of the whole investigation and study, and it is the necessary way to collect information and obtain first-hand information. Understand the local geography, history, economy and cultural construction through organized research activities. Research activities can further strengthen students' love for their hometown and develop their innovative ability in practice. Third, the combination of local geography and students' comprehensive quality training "local geography" teaching is the carrier of comprehensive learning and quality training. By studying Land and Map, World Geography and China Geography, students have mastered some basic geographical knowledge and skills, so it is possible to apply the geographical methods they have learned to the study of local geography. At the same time, because "local geography" belongs to students and is closer to their life practice, it is more conducive to students to carry out geographical practice activities such as field trips or social surveys. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate students' practical ability as one of the goals of local geography learning to improve students' comprehensive national quality. For example, China is still in the primary stage of socialism, and the face of poverty and backwardness has not completely changed. When introducing the national conditions to students, we should analyze the advantages and disadvantages of our hometown in a realistic way, place ardent expectations on students, and ask them to face up to reality, study hard, work hard for the development of the motherland, and enhance their feelings of patriotism and love for their hometown. Another example is the requirement in the curriculum standard: "Local geography should combine the reality of natural, economic and social development in the region, highlight the regional geographical characteristics, and embody the concept of coordinated and sustainable development of the relationship between man and land." Sustainable development refers to meeting the needs of modern people without damaging the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainable development is formed by people's reflection on the practice of human transformation and utilization of nature. Therefore, it is difficult to really establish it from book to book and from theory to theory; Through the study of local geography, combined with the practice of observation, investigation and investigation, this paper analyzes the influence of natural conditions on the society, economy, environment, ecology, culture and life of hometown, integrates theory with practice, and gradually establishes the influence of local production and life on the natural environment of hometown. In other words, the establishment of the concept of sustainable development has a strong practicality, and the study of local geography better embodies this practice. In short, the teaching content of local geography can be closely linked with the reality of local economic construction, so that education can better serve local economic construction, enable students to better learn and master geographical knowledge and practice, and lay a good foundation for further study and further study in the future. Today, with the vigorous promotion of quality education and the full implementation of the new curriculum reform, local geography deserves our frontline educators' attention and practice.