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Galahs on the cliff top at Soldiers Beach, New South Wales,

Australia

http://www.amonline.net.au/factSheets/galah.htm

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Soldiers Beach

Norah Head

New South Wales

Australia

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How important is it to include maps when helping children locate places around theHow important is it to include maps when helping children locate places around the

world?world?

PSMA Ltd.; Reproduced by permission of Public Sector Mapping

Agencies Australia Ltd. & Multimap.com

2002 Global Insight; Reproduced bypermission

of Global Insight & Multimap.com

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Oyster Catchers on the beach in Northumberland

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Embleton Bay,

Northumberland, UK

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How important is it to include maps when helping children locate places around theHow important is it to include maps when helping children locate places around the

world?world?

Collins Bartholomew; Reproduced by Permission of Collins Bartholomew & Multimap.com

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Taking the thinking furtherTaking the thinking further

Our perception of place is clearly influenced by ourpersonal experience of the world. I know what it feelslike to walk along a sea-shore I have experienced thesounds, know what the wind feels like on my skin, I can

see the pattern of the waves along the beach and knowfrom the dunes that this sea must carry sand that isbeing deposited on the beach and then blown by thewind to form these dunes. I have visited coastlines in avariety of places round the world where sand dunes are

found, so my personal expectations are that this imagecould have been taken in any one of a number ofdifferent locations.

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This will not be true for the majority of childrenwho bring much more limited experiences of theworld with them. By presenting images in theform of a puzzle to be solved, we create an

opportunity to hook children in, to compare whatthey think they see when part of the image ishidden, with what they actually see when all isrevealed. Challenging their perceptions of placein this way actively engages at both the

emotional and intellectual level, widensperceptions of the world in which they live andleads to a growing `sense of place.

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For further practical ideas about exploring

`A sense of place see Fran Martin

(2006), Teaching Geography in Primary

Schools, Chapter 2, Knowledge &understanding of places, Chris Kington

Publishing ISBN 1 8998 857 83 4

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Taking it further

Additional images of part of the New South Walescoastline can be found at:

http://www.gowilder.org.uk/Coast-Landscape-NSW/index.htm These images were all taken within afew miles of Norah Head search for The Entrance onMulti-map (Australia & Central Coast, NSW).

Explore the Uluru Research frame:

http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/visualgeography/r To develop these ideas and to explore how you cancustomise these `frames for use with you own class go to`Taking it Further on the Geography Teaching Todaywebsite

http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/visualgeography/researchframes/http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/visualgeography/researchframes/