Prepared for the PGQM writing days - 9th & 14th Oct 08

1. Learn to think geogra phically

3. “ What’s in the News?” has been successfully introduced this year as a homework activity. Each week a different class of children take it in turns to prepare a presentation on an item of news.

4. Think about the future What do I already know?

5. Geographical Imagination DEVELOP I learnt that we need more materials like peat and soil that absorb water and less materials like concrete. Visit to Kelham Island Museum Investigating flooding - The River Don in 2007

7. Place Space Scale Geography’s big ideas CONNECTEDNESS

8. How am I connected to the world through food? PLACE – World SCALE – Global SPACE – Worldmap The World in a Supermarket Bag Bananas From Windward Islands Cocoa from Ghana Kenyan Beans CONNECTEDNESS Kiwi Fruit Italy www.quikmaps.com

9. Planning learning … Making comparisons 1. Start with - my enthusiasms and the interests of the children … this starting point provides a shared experience to build on and a basis for common understanding 3. Make the learning of geography accessible to children? Asking questions Using pictures/ photographs/maps Drama, role-play, enactment 2. Decide on the geography Fieldwork STARTING POINTS GEOGRAPHY BIG IDEAS ENQUIRY & SKILLS Place Scale Interconnectedness Space

10. Use a mix of given and children’s own questions as a starting point - some prompts may be: As a class, choose the most relevant questions to investigate. What have we found out? Do we all share the same point of view? How does this affect our lives? What does it mean to us? What has this experience taught us? How do we know? Has it changed our thinking and if so, how? What new questions do we have? How will we analyse and present information? Starting Point and Focus What do we do with this knowledge? Who can we share it with? And how? For example: An Enquiry Framework

13. Identity Place