Getting creative with your (geography) curriculum
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Getting creative with your curriculum discusses ways to make the curriculum more creative and engaging for students. It provides quotes about creativity, collaboration, and embracing new ideas. Teachers are encouraged to abandon silos and allow for floating topicality to make lessons more relevant and help students understand the world.
Getting creative with your (geography) curriculum
- 1. Getting creative with your curriculum David Rogers @davidErogers davidrogers.org
- 2. What is weather and how does it affect people? Do now: Using the shapes below, create a sketch map of the UK. You can rotate them and resize. You can use any type of triangle Mark on the location of: London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast
- 5. ‘Our Priory days were akin to working in Area 51 compared to most places’
- 6. Creativity?
- 8. ‘…contact between groups, which accelerated the speed of innovative ideas from one mind to another, creating a kind of collective brain.’ National Geographical Jan 2015
- 9. ‘When populations again fell below critical mass, groups became isolated, leaving new ideas nowhere to go. What innovations had been established withered and died.’ National Geographical Jan 2015
- 10. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
- 13. “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down” Ray Bradbury
- 15. 4. Plan and teach well structured lessons promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity
- 16. A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the framework and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. Purpose of study
- 17. A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the framework and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. Purpose of study
- 18. Photo credit via flickr Geographers should embrace new content as an opportunity to develop our subject.
- 19. Chat: What are your biggest content fears in the new curriculum? Photo credit via Flickr
- 20. Africa Russia Asia (Including China and India) Middle East Environmental regions Polar and hot deserts Key human and physical characteristics Countries and major cities Geological timescales Rocks, weathering, soils Climate change: Ice Age to the present Glaciation Maths Linking to KS4
- 21. Is your curriculum full of JONK?
- 22. ‘Enquiry is not something to be defined once and for all on paper. It is something to be developed in the classroom in particular school and curriculum contexts.’ Margaret Roberts, Learning through enquiry, p25
- 23. 1. What is the point of school if it doesn't help you understand the world around you? 2. Teachers are in the ideal position to challenge media bias and editorial decisions. 3. Topical issues are an opportunity to reinforce and help revisit prior learning. Floating topicality
- 25. Glaciation Iceland and big subglacial volcanoes Geological Timescale Continental Drift – Mid Atlantic ridge Everest: access, avalanche, honeypot Is tourism in Iceland sustainable? Asia Water supply and climate change Ban silos – creative curriculum design How did the Himalayas form? Climate Change
- 26. Everest: access, avalanche, honeypot Cosy clothes manufactured in Nepal Made in Nepal, just like us…. Weaving together ancient wisdom and modern technology. We create 80% of our products right here in Nepal. This means the world to us socially, economically, environmentally. This labour of love supports the livelihood of a Nepali family and helps us to keep alive a centuries-old craft.
- 27. Interleaving and desirable difficulties Bjork and Bjork, 2011 Coe et al, 2014 Brown, Roediger III, McDaniel, 2014 Allison Blog
- 31. Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine.
- 32. Non-statutory
- 34. 24 January, 2015 What is geological time and why is it important to geographers? How old is the Earth? How long have animals been around on Earth? How long have people been around on Earth?
- 35. 24 January 2015 Has the world always looked the way it has? Has the Earth always looked the same? Think about this images from NASA and write an 80 word response. Try to give reasons why it has changed and why it is the same. Use work from last lesson.
- 36. Map from memory
- 37. Think, Pair, Share. What’s this? Why doesn’t the earth look like this today? How do we know? Pangea
- 39. Continental drift: how would you prove it?
- 44. 24 January, 2015 What is the climate like on the African continent? Starter challenges: 1. Approximately, how many times can you fit the UK into the African continent? UK Land area: 83,698 sq mi African continent land area: 11.7 million sq mi 2. How many miles, north to south, is the African continent?
- 45. 139 times.
- 49. Where?
- 52. Even makes oxbow lakes look cool?
- 54. Photos hyperlink to original source.
- 55. Photos hyperlink to original source.
- 56. If this mountain is so dangerous why then is climbing it so important for Nepal’s economy?
- 59. So why are these people so important?
- 60. So if they are so important why did this happen? And what do you think the impact of this could be on Nepal?
- 61. Surprised? Where is this person? What are they walking into? Beat the teacher! You have 10 questions. Can you figure out what happened?
- 62. Map detectives! • Order the maps on your table into order • In your exercise book: • Describe what has happened? • Why do you think this has happened?
- 63. Pirates and Social Networking In 2009…..
- 64. Lesson 1 • Background and research into 21st Century piracy. Include Bing web, maps and image search Lesson 2 • Using Twitter and Facebook to gather ‘Real’ data for students to engage with. Using blogs to collaborate and action plan Lesson 3 • Using Twitter live within the lesson to provide a ‘real’ task, deadlines and feedback.
- 65. List 5 words that you associate with Pirates
- 66. Produced using wordle.net and used under creative commons license Wordle.net
- 70. Gather data via Twitter before the lesson Present the information – analysis Link the data to the topic being studied Get pupils to interact with the information, song, poem, presentation, news report….. Using Social Networking to provide data
- 71. Using Social Networking in real time Use through teacher account, visible to the class via a data projector. Get class to interact with Twitter network by asking questions, responding to questions Pupils work collaboratively to react to questions
- 75. “Your are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” Woodrow Wilson.
- 76. ‘What gets you out of bed in the morning and in to school?’ @davidErogers