PLANNING FOR GEOGRAPHY AND GLOBAL LEARNING

Satellite image: NASA

How do we inform ourselves about

this area of learning?

What learning activities will our children engage

with?

What actions can we take?

What focus?Environmental Impact & Sustainability

Interdependence & Connectedness

People , Culture & Diversity

Hook - take a virtual journey, e.g. through a

rainforest environment

Find out more: Where? Why here and not

there?

What makes it special?

Issue: who gains and who

loses? Why might this

matter to me?

Take Action: What are

people doing about it? What

can I do?

What is it like here? (Use, story, picture books, sense impressions, drama to explore) [PLACE]

Ask & answer questions such as: What would it be like to live here/ visit?

Have a definite concluding activity for the project that can be shared with others.

Know that you are not alone in taking action – hundreds/ thousands of other people worldwide are trying to do something about this issue (MDG’s).

Use P4C/ Community of enquiry to explore this issue

Research

Explore & map (SPACE), use Google Earth

Explore through picture books/ video etc

TEACHING TOOLKIT

Sense impressions

5 W’s

Making pairs

Most Likely to ...

Living Graphs

Start with a photo

Using Artefacts

Google Maps (Earth)

Quikmaps/ Scribble Maps

Further research & new enquiry

Decide on your personal actions

Involve children in evaluation

What will we do? What will the children do?

Personal & prior

experience The

experience of

others - someone

who's been there

The work of an

influential NGO/

Charity

Story, picture books,

photos, video, sound,

artefacts, online

mapping

Education website, e.g. TES, online

subscription libraries, Teacher’s TV, BBC

Class Clips

How do we inform ourselves about this area of learning?

The Rainforest

How will I inform my thinking and find teaching resources about:

Photos: Simon Collis http://geographychampions.ning.com/photo/albums/costa-rica

Draw on Personal & Prior Experience

In 1994 I visited the Peruvian rainforest (part of a longer Peru trip)

Amazon rainforest catchment area. Puerto Maldonado, Tambopata Lodge.

http://www.tambopatalodge.com/

Photo Wendy North

Visit a rainforest environment in the UK or share the experience of

someone who's been there

Among others: Tropical World – Roundhay Park Leeds

http://www.roundhaypark.org.uk/tropical-world-leeds/index.html

Birmingham Botanical Garden The Living Rainforest (near J13 of M4) -

http://www.livingrainforest.org/ The Eden Project

Use the work of an influential NGO/ Charity

http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/working_with_schools/

World Wildlife Fund

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/penan the film is about logging and oil palm cultivation which is destroying the lands of the people of Sarawak – it links to the Borneo newspaper article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/borneo-indonesia-rainforest-illegal-logging

Explore the

news

Find Picture Books & Story

Access Video – search rainforest

Searching for video clips is a very time consuming activity.

WHAT YOU WANT THE VIDEO FOR? (What will it help children to feel/think?)

Look for recommendations from other people.

Access Video – search rainforest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ BBC Class Clips

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/images-of-a-tropical-rainforest-biome/3205.html

Access Video – search rainforest

Videos from the BBC are also available on Vimeo and You Tube

Search BBC rainforest

http://vimeo.com/4103904

Rainforest Animals and Plant life in the Amazon jungle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xN7bPTz7gw

Access Video on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/12765487

The opening minute is particularly useful for younger children

http://vimeo.com/14339525

Locate Images

Search for Creative Commons licensed content: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Locate Images

View the Earth Spatially

USE A MAP Google Earth –

needs downloading onto your computer

Google Maps – online Resource

Bing Maps

CREATE A MAP Quikmaps

Scribble Maps

Maps – Google Earth

Download from: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

Maps - Google Maps

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Manaus&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.970501,29.970703&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Manaus+-+Amazonas,+Brazil&t=h&z=8

BING Mapshttp://www.bing.com/maps/

Sue Waters Cairns Set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/suewaters/sets/72157622663070770/with/4047436751/

Search the Internet

Search the Internet

Guided tour through the rainforest

www.rainforestconcern.org/education_resources

http://www.rainforestconcern.org/tour/rfc_guide.htm

Photographs of the world’s rainforests – Nature Conservancy

www.nature.org/rainforests/explore/photos.html

Rainforest sounds www.christiananswers.n

et/kids/sounds.html#Christian%20Answers%20Sounds

An interactive site from the Rainforest Alliance - match animals and plants to the layers of the rainforest.

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/education/treehouse/jewelsoftheearth/index.html

Living in the Guatemalan Rainforest – feels a little dated

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/education/treehouse/myworld/index.html

Stories from the Rainforest http://www.rainforest-allia

nce.org/education.cfm?id=rainforest_stories

Internet Search

Free resources from world Land Trust (sponsored by Mall)

http://www.free-teaching-resources.co.uk/article45440820042009.shtml

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Teacher%20resources

ARKive www.arkive.org Videos, images and

fact files of the world’s plant and animal species.

Tropical rainforest animals

www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml

Internet

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.ne

t/ search Rain forest

Lots of very similar slideshows available – some by children. Generally very fact based presentations – possibly useful for images. Not the kinds of things I’d want to share with years 3 & 4 – at least initially – though you might ADAPT

TES Resources websitehttp://www.tes.co.uk/ SEARCH for `Rainforest’

then primary

Very popular as fellow teachers often provides ready made resources. But be prepared to ADAPT

Ask yourself: Is it clear what the teacher wants the children to learn? Is this what I’m looking for?

Hamilton Trust planning on the TES website – cross-curricular