RGS Network Meeting, Weds 28th Sept 2011

Robert Anstey

Beechen Cliff School, Bath

1.Geography in the News

2.Using Micro Clips to enhance Learning

3.Pupil Engagement in Geography

Do you ever bring

in to your lessons?

If so, how often and how? If not – why not? Discuss in pairs

At KS3 and GCSE

The KS3 and GCSE GITN Walls

At A-Level

The A-Level GITN Walls

Synopticity

This was

brought in by

an A2 student

to support the

work we were

doing on the

Monsoon and

how people

adapt to it.

This story was picked up on by another student which led to…

…and it’s now an A2 case study for the World Cities unit to illustrate urban decline

Reading the news intelligently

Skim Reading

Geography Hats

2. Using the

To enhance learning

Do you ever use

In your lessons?If so, how and how often? What are its strengths?

What are its weaknesses? Discuss in pairs

Uses of the micro clip

• As a break in the lesson to re-engage students

• To illustrate a point in an engaging way

• Sometimes there isn’t time for a 20/30 minute video but you want to get something visual in to the lesson

• Sometimes students switch off in 20/30 min videos

• Keeping things up to date e.g. case studies/Geography in the news

How?http://www.zamzar.com/

1. Paste the ULR from youtube in to here

3. Select AVI from drop down menu

2. Select ‘Download videos’

4. Type in e-mail address

5. Click convert

6. They then e-mail you a link and when you click on it it will start downloading to you computer as a windows media file

Globalisation

What’s this got to do with trading blocs?

Pros and Cons of TNCs

Population change: Contrasting approaches to advocating the use of contraception

Used as a platform for discussing development and social taboos in LEDCs and materialism/ consumerism in the West

Hydraulic Action

Pros and cons of tourism

Introduction to Farming

Liquefaction

Development Data

3. Pupil Engagement

in Geography

reducing the need to…

1. Is it important to actively engage students in Geography lessons? Why?2. How do you engage students?3. What barriers do you face? Discuss in pairs

1. What’s the point? Give tasks a skills focus.

2. Practical Work

Stolen from Ben

3. Making a mess

4. Movement/Demonstrations

5. Think outside the box…this might mean throwing out the rule book every now and again…especially of what they think a teacher should do!

6. The way we present tasks/info

7. Humour

Obviously professional judgement of your kids is needed

8. Using images to enquire

Each on it’s own slide

And I’ll leave you with this…