What can help us find out more about the place?

What differences do you notice?

Annotate the image with differences (colour code according to type of difference – residential, leisure, environment, transport etc)

Find three obvious differences/changes and think about why they might have occurred

What questions do you want to ask about these photos? (P4C)

2000-2003 Get Mapping ….

2000-2003

1999

1944

Google Map it….

Multimap it…..

And the future….?

If things have changed so much between 1999 and 2006 – what might happen in the next 7 years?

In the next 20 years?In the next 40 years?

David HicksPreferred and probable futures – scenarios Transition Towns

EDPVisioning the future

2050?

• Place tracing paper over your map and draw on some of the changes that you would like to see happen (your preferred changes)

• Repeat for those changes that you think will happen (probable changes)

• How can we encourage children to think that their preferred changes might occur and discuss which would be most socially and environmentally beneficial

“If we are not to overwhelm pupils with the world’s problems, we should teach in a spirit of optimism. We should build success stories into our curriculum and develop awareness of sources of hope in the world”

Huckle J (1990) Environmental Education: Teaching for a sustainable future” in Dufour, D (Ed) The New Social Curriculum, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

“No problem, environmental or otherwise, should be taught about at any level in education without concomitant emphasis on positive strategies for its resolution”

Hicks, D (1998) ‘Stories of Hope: A Response to the ‘Psychology of Despair’’ in Environmental Education Research Vol 4 No 2 pp165-176