Living Geography

Living geography What’s the story? Wendy North January 2008

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Identity Place Where we grow up and the `everyday geography’ we experience shapes who we become and …

Identity Place … influences the choices that we make as adults.

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Identity is shaped by the geography that is all around us Oyster Park Junior School, Castleford http://www.gowilder.org.uk/Oyster-Park/index.htm

Changing Places The Green, Ferry Fryston Now Future http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/changingplaces/

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MAKING BETTER PLACES Our School Grounds Now Eight steps to CHANGING our school grounds

Is this a good or bad place for …? ☺ ☻ ☹ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Now Audit: how do we feel?

We invited family, friends and Mark from the local planning office to come and see our ideas. Future

ESD & Changing Places ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.gowilder.org.uk/Oyster-Park/index.htm

Factors that support our understanding of PLACE Representation Location Geographical Imagination

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… places that we visit first hand

… places that are represented to us in the news, on the web, in stories, from family accounts etc .. Toss the Globe

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],… places that we respond to through feelings

Why are our geographical imaginations relevant to sustainable development? Knowledge Inference Emotion

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First of all we did some focused activities in the classroom that helped us develop using four of our five senses. In this way we learnt that we could describe a place with lots of details and it helped us to bring the place to life through words.

We followed this by using `freeze framing’ to help us take on the role of a character in the photograph. See our photographs on the right. CAN YOU WORK OUT WHICH FREEZE FRAME SHOWS … ? friends village school writing sieving concrete the way home

I can feel the soft blue powder the rough and hard wood. my bracelet tickling my arm. I can smell the misty air that blocked my nose. the moss on the trees and the dead leaves. Leah Sieving concrete I can see some trees gently brushing against each other, my friends working hard. the muddy floor I can hear the slight breeze shaking and rattling the trees my friends talking to me, telling me some things they are going to have for their tea. Photograph from Action Aid http://www.chembakolli.com/

Everyday Geography ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Everyday Geography, Fran Martin Primary Geographer, Autumn 2006

Everyday Geography ,[object Object],[object Object],See `Everyday Geography’ an article by Fran Martin: http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/images/text/PGAut06Martin.pdf

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