Walk the World
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Walk the World is a new website that allows users to submit walking routes that connect their local area to at least 15 other countries. To submit a walk, users need: 1) Evidence of links to 15+ other countries along the route 2) A planned route between the points of interest and a map 3) An optional theme to tie the stories together 4) A commentary describing each point of interest and directions between them. The document then discusses how a school group could plan a walk around their area to document connections and submit it to the website. Various student roles are outlined to divide the work of researching links, route planning, photography, risk assessment, and more.
Walk the World
- 1. Walk the World http://www.walktheworld.org.uk/ Launched this week by Nick Crane Developed by RGS-IBG
- 4. Submitting a Walk To create a walk you need four ingredients: 1. You need evidence of good links to at least 15 other countries in an area that you can comfortably walk around; and to know the stories behind those links. The links become the points of interest on the walk. 2. You need to plan the route between the points of interest so that the walk is easy and fun to follow, and to make a map of that route. Ideally the walk starts and ends at the same place. We suggest using the free Ordnance Survey Get a Map service to create your route. It's free to register and use the site. 3. You need, ideally, a theme to the walk. This theme will tie together the stories at the points of interest and help you to create a more interesting walk for the user. 4. Finally, you will need to write a commentary for the walk, and this will include the stories at each point of interest, and the directions for how to get to the next point of interest on the walk. If you can attach some photos of points of interest that would be really good too.
- 5. Activity • Plan how we will use this website with students • Take a walk outside the school and see what connections we can document • Submit walk to the website
- 6. Pupil ‘roles’ • Researcher • ‘Spotter’ – looking for possible links • Cartographer – route planning and map making • Photographer • Risk assessor • Commentary author • Editor – pulls the walk together • IT support
- 7. Badges made with Big Huge Labs
- 10. Expansion
- 11. The Press release The school newsletter Parental involvement Include the school as a point of interest… Over to you… All images from site are copyright RGS-IBG and associated partners