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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 – wnorth@wakefield.gov.ukCreated by Wendy North – wnorth@wakefield.gov.ukWakefield 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 – wnorth@geography.org.uk

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 – wnorth@geography.org.uk

What?

Why?

How?

Where?

When?

Who?

5 W’s and How

From a slide by Wendy North – wnorth@geography.org.ukFrom a slide by Wendy North – wnorth@geography.org.uk

From a slide by Wendy North – wnorth@geography.org.ukFrom a slide by Wendy North – wnorth@geography.org.uk

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 (guilinphototours@gmail.com).

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 (meaglin2000@yahoo.com).

 Climbers on Wapta ice fields below Mount St Nicholas, British Columbia, Canada, March 2006. Altitude: 2972m. © Tristan Clements (http://morealtitude.wordpress.com, morealtitude@hotmail.com).

Koh Kut island, Trat Province, eastern Thailand, during the rainy season, August 2008. © Ben Visbeek (visbeek@dds.nl). (More info about this picture at www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/2753356609.)

Machu Picchu, Huánuco, Peru, February 2006. © Glenn Davis (crashdavis49@hotmail.com).

Small canyon leading into the Grand Canyon, Arizona, June 2004. © Philip Shane (philipshane@mac.com).

Connell Canyon, Antarctica, November/December 2007. Taken during the Fuchs Foundation scientific research expedition. © Ruth Hollinger, reproduced by permission of the Fuchs Foundation (peter@fuchsfoundation.org).

 Oahu Pipeline, Hawaii, 2008. © Seth Johnson (hisurfshots@yahoo.com).

West Vigne Glacier, Baltistan District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, August 2006. Altitude: 5000m+. © Ahmad Abdul-Karim (ahmadak@gmail.com).

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 (davisonjack@gmail.com).

Rush hour at Grand Central Station, New York City, June 2008. © Esther Tange (esther_tange@yahoo.com).

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 (philippe.leroyer@gmail.com).

 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 (visbeek@dds.nl).

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 (idmurray@totalise.co.uk).

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 (mail@greenalan.fsnet.co.uk).

Coastal erosion at Happisburgh, July 2005. © Val Vannet (valvannet@greycroft10.freeserve.co.uk).