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Good Geography always starts with… Who? What? Where? Why? When?

Good Geography always starts with… Who? What? Where? Why? When?. Please note most images have been taken out from this presentation. Anthony Barlow, GA EY and PP Committee. Special places are sensory places. What are our sensory memories of school?

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Good Geography always starts with… Who? What? Where? Why? When?

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  1. Good Geography always starts with…Who?What?Where?Why?When? Please note most images have been taken out from this presentation Anthony Barlow, GA EY and PP Committee

  2. Special places are sensory places • What are our sensory memories of school? • How do we as Geographers try to build these ‘sensory stores’ up for our learners the future? • Can we do more to encourage the use of children’s senses? • My contention is …yes, through fieldwork!

  3. My objectives • Over the past 3 summers I have wanted to explore with our year 3 + year 5 children:- what they know, where they go; getting them to stand and stop and stare and sense say.- to have a ‘sense of’ pride in their area, its history, what it’s like today, where it’s going… it’s c. cohesion in action!- give them the idea that Geography lets them off the leash, gives them a say, is exciting!

  4. How? Through new cross-curricular themes or topics ‘My Favourite Place’ and Super Senses’ • Place: Holidays, local, national, global knowledge • Space: journeys, getting around • Scale: understanding and making maps • Skills: how to investigate the world for themselves – fieldwork

  5. Summer holiday ‘home learning’ and a make ‘a journey stick’ idea

  6. See: www.qca.org.uk/geography/innovating/examples/PDF6r.pdf Primary Geographer, Journey Sticks and Affective Mapping, Spring 2006, Jane Whittle Journey sticks Opportunity to retrace a journey Promotes discussion about a place Challenges youngsters to stand, stop, stare and say At 4 metres long… it is a touch, smell, sight-filling feast

  7. Your task… • Look at the big books of places • What senses do the pictures evoke?(write round the middle) • What do you like… hate… want to know about … like to know more (wonder) about these places… I would do this with the children to try and build vocabulary, especially for writing!

  8. Final challenge: Zoom by Istvan Banyai • How could we use this to create a sense of place, space and scale? • Is this a way we can start to discuss the interconnected world from the personal>local>national>global with the youngest children? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPeFJJF73k

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