a different view a manifesto for geography..a different view.....the power of visual images
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..A Different View.....A Different View...
....the power of visual the power of visual images...images...
..Fascinates and inspires
..engage young people’s fundamental curiosity
..content ..beyond immediate horizons..
..knowledgeable (global) citizens
What is he reading? Where did he get it? Why What is he reading? Where did he get it? Why is he reading it? Is he ‘allowed’? What is he is he reading it? Is he ‘allowed’? What is he supposed to be doing? supposed to be doing? Should he be working? Why? Where are his Should he be working? Why? Where are his parents? What happens to him next? parents? What happens to him next? Where does the rubbish come from? Where is Where does the rubbish come from? Where is this place? What will he be doing in 20 years’ this place? What will he be doing in 20 years’ time? time? Why do these images matter? and ‘What have Why do these images matter? and ‘What have these images got to do with us?these images got to do with us?
2 Which lyric?This is a possible focus for a ‘think, pair, share’ activity. Read and/or listen to the song lyrics:• Which version of Country Life fits your image of the picture, if any?• What different images do the two songs present?• Do all rural areas share the same issues of country living?• Does location matter?3 Yeah, but …The aim here is to encourage students to see two sides of a question. Take the Show of Hands version: this housemight be ‘the empty shell’ of a holiday home (‘Yeah, but at least it’s well-kept and maintained’); People have theright to live where they choose (‘Yeah, but this puts house prices up for local people’).Curriculum opportunitiesSustainable development: does second home ownership make for sustainable communities?Citizenship: belonging to, and contributing to, a community.Personal, learning and thinking skills: fosters critical thinking, independent enquirers.See also: http://www.geography.org.uk/gtip/thinkpieces/culturalgeography/Shaaron Sanderson, GA Secondary Phase Committee
A few new free resources on the
website
Some things to try with the images….
• What do you see, hear, smell and feel? • What can you work out?• 5w’s and a how• Conversations?• Picture reveals• Extend the photo• Dingbats• Photo to sketch• Bingo
Created by Wendy North – [email protected] by Wendy North – [email protected] Advisory ServiceWakefield Advisory Service
Putting Putting Yourself Yourself
in the in the PicturePictureWhat
do you see, hear, smell and feel?
From a slide by Wendy North – From a slide by Wendy North – [email protected]
What can you work out from this
picture?
Landscape/ streetscape?
Plants/ animals?
Where?
Colour/ shapesPeople?
Weather?
What do you know for certain? What reasonable guesses can you make?
What can you work out?
What questions would you like to ask?
From a slide by Wendy North – From a slide by Wendy North – [email protected]
What?
Why?
How?
Where?
When?
Who?
5 W’s and How
From a slide by Wendy North – [email protected] a slide by Wendy North – [email protected]
From a slide by Wendy North – [email protected] a slide by Wendy North – [email protected]
Conversation between CharactersConversation between Characters
From an idea by Kate Russell
Extend the Photograph
From an idea by Kate Russell
http://www.dumpr.net/
Images to Sketches using Dumpr
RetreatingCliff edge
LANDSCAPES BIN
LANDSCAPESBINGO
From an idea by Alan Parkinson
Fill in your bingo card !You need to choose 10 items from the list on
the next slide.These will be your
‘numbers’ so choose wisely. You must
choose 5 from each column.
COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2TREES VOLCANO
CLOUDS ROAD SIGN
HOUSING BRIDGE
ELECTRICITY PYLON DIGGER
RIVER OR STREAM MOUNTAINS
GROWING RICE CHIMNEY
FOREST CLEARANCE SMOKE
FENCES AN ANIMAL
CLIFFS CAFE
BEACH THE SEA
LIGHTNING SNOW
A ROAD CHURCH
EYES DOWN FOR A FULL HOUSE !!
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Some other ideas....Photo Scrabble Photo Scrabble This game uses A Different View’s images to identify connections between different photos and is designed to help develop synoptic ideas Each player has a pack of photos which they lay down in turn. The photo needs to have a connection with the previous photo which the player must explain. If they cant give a satisfactory answer they miss a turn.
Illustrating ConceptsIllustrating ConceptsChoose one of the concepts and ask the students to find three images that could visually represent their concept
From Fred Martin
Student Experiences
Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices
Underpinned by Key Concepts Thinking
Geographically
Learning Activity
How does this take the learner beyond what they already know?
Curriculum MakingCurriculum Making
Your Turn
• What the Photo shows• Lesson Idea• Other resources• Suggested Activity• Curriculum Opportunities
Feedback time....
A DIFFERENT VIEW; APPEARANCES CAN DECEIVEThese photographs are protected by copyright.
They are licensed for educational use in conjunction with A different view only.Anyone wishing to re-use or re-publish the photos for any other purpose,
whether in print or on a website, must apply to the copyright holder for permission.
Rice field ploughing, Yangshuo, Guangxi, China, April 2008. Water buffalos are used as draft and dairy animals and can be often seen in Yangshuo pulling ploughs through the paddy fields. © Pan Shijun ([email protected]).
Deforestation in the Philippines 1 (from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
Deforestation in the Philippines 2 (from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
Amazon deforestation, Peru, September 2008. © Jeanette Eaglin ([email protected]).
Climbers on Wapta ice fields below Mount St Nicholas, British Columbia, Canada, March 2006. Altitude: 2972m. © Tristan Clements (http://morealtitude.wordpress.com, [email protected]).
Koh Kut island, Trat Province, eastern Thailand, during the rainy season, August 2008. © Ben Visbeek ([email protected]). (More info about this picture at www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/2753356609.)
Machu Picchu, Huánuco, Peru, February 2006. © Glenn Davis ([email protected]).
Small canyon leading into the Grand Canyon, Arizona, June 2004. © Philip Shane ([email protected]).
Connell Canyon, Antarctica, November/December 2007. Taken during the Fuchs Foundation scientific research expedition. © Ruth Hollinger, reproduced by permission of the Fuchs Foundation ([email protected]).
Oahu Pipeline, Hawaii, 2008. © Seth Johnson ([email protected]).
West Vigne Glacier, Baltistan District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, August 2006. Altitude: 5000m+. © Ahmad Abdul-Karim ([email protected]).
Underground escalator, Ferenciek Square, Budapest, Hungary, March 2008. © Csaba Jekkel (http://eyevision.hu).
Stromboli, Piscità, Aeolian Islands, Italy, mid-1990s. © Carlo A G Tripodi (www.flickr.com/people/goldenpixel).
Niagara Falls, May 2007. © James Watkins, all rights reserved (www.flickr.com/photos/23737778@N00).
Concourse, Waterloo Station, 2007. © Jack Davison ([email protected]).
Rush hour at Grand Central Station, New York City, June 2008. © Esther Tange ([email protected]).
Contre parade, Paris, 14 July 2007. To counter the militaristic official commemoration of the storming of the Bastille, an ‘alternative’ parade was organised by pacifists, environmentalists, clowns … © Philippe Leroyer ([email protected]).
China produces 75% of the world’s toys. This photo is part of a 2004 installation called ‘The Real Toy Story’, by Michael Wolf, which can be seen at http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/the_real_toy_story. Photograph © Wolf/LAIF, Camera Press London (www.camerapress.com).
Sorting chillies, Bangkok Flower Market, April 2001. © Bryan Ledgard (www.bryanledgard.com).
Winter wheat ready for harvesting, Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt, near Harz National Park, Germany, April 2008. © Ben Visbeek ([email protected]).
Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire, May 2008 © Bryan Ledgard (www.bryanledgard.com).
A tractor-drawn cultivator preparing the soil, Rendlesham, Suffolk, December 2006. © Ian Murray ([email protected]).
Boys on the Payatas Garbage Dump, Quezon City, Philippines (two photos, both from copyright free CD; photographer unknown).
The Maldives, April 2006. The Maldives, with more than 80% of land less than a metre above sea level, are particularly at risk from rising sea levels. © Ahmed Zahid (www.ahmedzahid.mv).
Coastal erosion at Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, March 2007. © Alan Green ([email protected]).
Coastal erosion at Happisburgh, July 2005. © Val Vannet ([email protected]).