Food for thought...

Food for thought: curriculum planning in geography  

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Teacher choice is vital...

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Introduction to geography... First lessons What did you do ?

Daughter started in Year 7 this year... Born in 1999 What do you think of when you hear the word “grandparent”

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Subject vocabulary Subject grammar

The curriculum is about the destination, the aims and goals, and is therefore 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.

Teachers as curriculum makers Every teacher is a subject leader

Article in #pgcetips guide... Food analogy continued...

“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’ ?

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

#tags for lesson starters... #cheesefilms #geographytributebands

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 !

Young People’s Geographies

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.

‘pick & mix curriculum’

David Rogers

What do ‘EU’ think ?

Food Transport

Employment

5 4 3 2 1 Pedagogy

Media / Culture

Examples of curriculum-making

Your cultural objects ?

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

Migration...

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

Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search Q View photos Info Photos Boxes What’s on your mind? Share Name Information Friends 10hrs ago View videos Older posts Wall Recent Activity Ads Groups

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...

Making Geography Happen

All night long they journeyed, and I would lie in bed listening to the swish and the boom, the swish and the boom, as they came and they went, as they came and went. I loved that sound … it was like a cradle, endlessly rocking; it was like a lullaby, it was like a river pouring past, it was like the incessant movement of the Earth. You were a child in bed, trying to sleep, but the road was awake and alive with travellers, and therefore you were not alone, and life had not come to a grim halt. The blood coursed through the body, and the traffic along the road. Your heart would not seize up and stop if you fell asleep. It would beat on until the morning. Margaret Drabble

Geography “Writing the earth...” Mark Jones in next issue of Teaching Geography

#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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Hungry for more ? http://www.geography.org.uk Online CPD units on geographies of food New activities for ‘a different view’... Making Geography Happen project New GIS unit coming soon... http://www.youngpeoplesgeographies.co.uk