A planning framework that shows how questions can be used to develop geographical thinking in relation to the use of picture books.

1. Geographical activities that can be developed through the use of
Picture Books
Geography is about Geography is about the
SPACE relationship
Draw a map between people &
place
Is there enough Answer from the point
information in the book of view of the character
to: in the story
Identity
• Map a route that a • Who am I?
character in your • Where do I come
story walks ISBN - 1-905236-63-8
Barefoot Books from?
• Map the layout of • Who is my family?
the village, street • What is my ‘story’?
etc Geography is about • Who are the people
Place around me?
From the point of view • Where do they come
of the character in the from? What is their
Geography makes story can you answer the ‘story’?
Connections between following questions?
people and places • Where do I live?
• How does it look?
Geography is about
What connects us to the • How do I feel about
it? `real people’ who
people in your story?
• How is it changing? live in `real places’
• Do we have relatives • How do I want it to
change? Find images of people who
who live there?
live in a similar place to the
• Do we eat food that
characters in the story.
is grown there? www.flickr.com is a good
• Do we go on holiday source of quality
there? photographs.
• Do we have a school
link with the Can you match photographs
country? of real places to an image
that the artist has drawn?
Prompt sheet devised by developed by Wendy North, 23/01/2008
wendy.north@btinternet.com
wnorth@geography.org.uk