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Food for thought: curriculum making in geography (with ICT)

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#cheesefilmsThe Gouda, the Bad and the UglyHashtag to start the lesson#geography tribute bands#food bands# discount book titles

The Geographical Association“furthering the learning and teaching of geography”....

Blogginghttp://livinggeography.blogspot.com 2300 + posts

N(etwork)ing...http://geographical.ning.com/

Mission Explore Range of out of the box fieldwork ideas and activities. http://www.missionexplore.co.uk/missions

3 books and an iPhone appalso Cultural Olympiad project

Noel Castree “There are only ever choices.... When choices are made and accepted by a sufficient number of teachers, they tend to become 'common sense’”The choices YOU make are all important !

Textbooks – the first lessons with Year 7“The Honeymoon Period”....

First lessonsWhat did you do ?What would you change given the choice?

Daughter started in Year 7 this year...Born in 1999What does she need to ‘know’ ?

Subject vocabulary Subject grammar

“The curriculum is about the destination, the aims and goals, and is … a matter of serious moral deliberation. A skills-based curriculum leads us into believing we needn’t trouble with the knowledge question. But, what shall we teach and how do we justify this? These are the important questions: surely the starting point for teachers in schools.”

“enabling factual geographical knowledge”OFSTED ?

Teachers as curriculum makers Every teacher is a subject leader

Article in #pgcetips guide...Food analogy‘Chop One Red Onion’ articleNQT book in preparation... Over 20 000 downloads

This session will offer a range of potential ingredients for you to use...

Max Rayner – PGCE teacherPosterous Blogging + Scribd

http://www.zamzar.com – captures YouTube or strips off audio as mp3

“Last year, nearly one in four of the world’s six billion people lived in extreme poverty. A quarter of all human beings on the planet had no electricity. Nearly a third did not have reliable access to safe drinking water, and even larger numbers subsisted on wood and charcoal instead of modern fuels. Just under 800 million adults were not able to read or write last year. And, close to nine million children died before their fifth birthday.”

“Can we have a fun lesson ?”What does that question ‘mean’ ?

CreativityWhat do you understand by that term ?How can you assess it ?

“It's never the technology thatentertains an audience, it's what you do with it.”John Lasseter, Disney Pixar Head of Animation

Tony CassidyKirk Hallam Schoolhttp://www.sharegeography.co.uk

Imagine it, draw it… Read news reports/passages from books aloud, ask students to summarise the content as images – or play audio files.

Games Based Learning For another 101 games/simulations see http://goo.gl/qcjH6 CREATE games as well as play them Produce not just consume… http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html

Post it… Send us a postcard – can make one with applications / Flickr toys website.

News it… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/ Watch the news summary, annotate the countries and issues mentioned.

Graph it- emotionally Graph emotional responses to media.

Cook it… Global Warming Recipe. Cooking Instructions 1.Liberally burn fossil fuels from the industrial revolution to the present. Making sure none of the carbon is offset. 2. At the same time, cut down significant numbers of trees and replace with pastoral land. 3. Put significant numbers of cattle on the pastoral land, ensuring they are fed with high protein feed, allow them to pass huge volumes of methane. 4. Make sure you are growing significant amounts of rice as a side to the main dish. 5. Continue to cook for at least a hundred years and serve piping hot. Ingredients. ,[object Object]

RiceDesign a geographical recipe.

Create a lonely heart… Seeking Cold front. Looking for a partner into feeling low, enjoy spinning against the norm. Especially would like someone cold to raise me up to new heights. No time wasters. Old but not finished. Seeking the love of a good women after her depart. Enjoy staring out to sea and wondering what could have been. I’m hard, but with some weaknesses. Foreign Advance. Ex-secondary worker seeks hi-tech solution to my depression. Willing to accept foreign advances. Rich in culture, and looking for someone to give me a positive boost. Will thank my lucky stars. Animal lover. Lonely animal lover, seeking companion, into a diverse range of activities, particularly those that make money. Good with heights, but dislikes harsh weather. Will set-a-side time for anyone who wishes to support my less favoured life. Raise me. Londoner, looking for a surge to raise me quickly. Interested?

Dominoes… Produce large sets for a class round-robin exercise.

6x6 it 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1 Stimulating creative writing idea by Steve Bowkett. This template by Noel Jenkins.

What if they had a profile? Concept: Tony Cassidy – Examples: Liz Smith

Q Search Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Last status update here Name 10hrs ago Add a picture here Info Photos Boxes Wall Ads What would they be typing now? What’s on your mind? Share View photos View videos What have they been doing on Facebook? Recent Activity Add personal information here Information Two interactions with friends What ads would be targeted to them? Who would they be friends with? Groups Friends What groups are they in? Facebook it Older posts

Q Search Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Old Harry All calm today.........  10hrs ago Info Photos Boxes Wall Ads Ouch, that stung  Share View photos View videos Visit Dorset Recent Activity Information Old Harry and Spit are now friends. Chalk Headland, recently lost wife to the sea. Located in Dorset. Numerous weaknesses, enjoy being exposed. Old Harry joined stop photographing me! Really annoyed with corrasion at the moment- ripping me apart. Insurance Groups Friends I’ll be lapping around your base later ;) Cave Arch Sea Older posts Resistant Rock

App it Ask students to develop nine iPhone/Smartphone Apps for a character, feature, place or issue...

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out Name of Twitter user and image here. Most recent Tweet here. What are you doing? 140 Unknown 100 89 100 Following Followers Tweets Update Home Home @unknown Direct Messages Favourites Search Q Oldest Tweet here. RSS Feed More

What are you doing? Can you name the Twitter user from their tweets?

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out 140 What are you doing? Unknown 100 89 100 I’m a country in the Northern Hemisphere. Following Followers Tweets Home Update @unknown Home Direct Messages I’m a country in the Northern Hemisphere. Favourites Search Q RSS Feed

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out 140 What are you doing? Unknown 100 89 100 I have 77 active volcanoes. Following Followers Tweets Home Update @unknown Home Direct Messages I’m a country in the Northern Hemisphere. Favourites I have 77 active volcanoes. Search Q RSS Feed

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out 140 What are you doing? Unknown 100 89 100 My main island is Honshu. Following Followers Tweets Home Update @unknown Home Direct Messages I’m a country in the Northern Hemisphere. Favourites I have 77 active volcanoes. Search Q My main island is called Honshu. RSS Feed

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out 140 What are you doing? Unknown 100 89 100 My capital is Tokyo. Following Followers Tweets Home Update @unknown Home Direct Messages I’m a country in the Northern Hemisphere. Favourites I have 77 active volcanoes. Search Q My main island is called Honshu. RSS Feed My capital is Tokyo.

Landscape in a box by Alan Parkinson. Map on a plate by Wendy North.

Animate it… Ask students to produce stop motion animations related to concepts and topics.

Generate it… Andrew Field’s contengenerator games are a great starter, plenary and revision tool. Some are free, but individual programs and licenses are available to purchase. Also see http://www.games4geog.com/ http://www.contentgenerator.net/

On a day-to-day basis, young people participate in their own ‘lived’ or ‘everyday’ geographies. Geography in school can draw from these experiences, and help young people understand them, connecting them to the wider world of people.

Picture: Ewan McIntosh from Edublogs website

http://thematicmapping.org/engine/

Snowball fight..... Write x ‘things’ on a piece of paper... Screw the paper up into a ball... Throw the ball at someone else.. Unfold the ball – write or amend x things Screw it up and snowball fight again... Continue x times then open and read and share...

John Davitt’s LEG...Learning Event Generatorhttp://legwork.pbworks.com/w/page/16185296/FrontPage

Learning Score – free download

#cheese films The Gouda, the Bad and the Ugly The Baby-Bels of St. Trinians The Manchego from U.N.C.L.E The E-Dam Busters Barbaramozzarella East of Edam Du Boursin Identity Bridget Jones’ Dairylea

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