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Curriculum
Any teacher being asked to consider the extractive industry and this website will ask the question “how does this fit into the curriculum?”
The extractive industry has perhaps the most obvious relevance to the subjects of geography and history, but it is a multidisciplinary industry that requires knowledge from many subject areas for its operation and can offer a wide range of learning opportunities across many subjects.
The extractive industry can provide learning opportunities such as: learning about species adaptations to survive in particular environmental conditions of extractive sites for biology; learning about land use in the British Isles and the resolution of land use conflicts for environmental science; and learning how trigonometry is applied in the engineering of extractive sites for mathematics.
These learning opportunities relate the theoretical approaches of schools and colleges to a real life industry and provide a better understanding of why individual subjects are important to a real life industry, with the effect of enhancing learning opportunities. It is also an important part of the education process to increase understanding of the role of the extractive industry and its contribution to society, and for each and every one of us to understand how we rely on the industry for our everyday lives.
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