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Place Based Learning within Primary Education
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Place Based Learning within Primary Education Geographical Association, 2011 Louise Francis Co-founder Mapping for Change [email protected] Maggie Hewitt Freelance Education Consultant
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Place Based Learning within Primary Education
Geographical Association, 2011 Louise Francis Co-founder Mapping for Change [email protected]
Maggie Hewitt Freelance Education Consultant
• Project pilot • Method • Outcomes • Opportunities
Putting Ourselves on the Map
Putting Ourselves on the Map
Placed based education: A traditional approach using new tools in an urban community
• To connect the local to global
• Maps as grids and stories
• Putting Google Maps into the hands of pupils
• Links between fact and personal knowledge/experience
• London borough of Tower Hamlets
• Three schools
• Majority of students working in English as a second language
• Year 4 (8-9 years old)
• Mixed group (year 4-6)
Context
“What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it, before being asked to heal its wounds.” Sobel
“ I hope the project will really capture the pupil voice and help us to see where we are in the world.” Headteacher of John Scurr School
My World
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My World
My World
On My Way to School Diaries
The Orange Lamborghini
The orange Lamborgini is mysterious because it is always in the same place on Wednesdays near Bonner School.
He looks like black glasses, brown hair, black shoes, red lips, cream leather seats, a black and orange boot, a silver engine, silver and black rim tyres and orange body, eyebrows are black, a yellow and white number plate and always near Cyprus Street and it looks like this.
Fraser
Perception Mapping
The students’
ideas across
different ‘layers’
were first written
onto large paper
maps using post-
it notes
Walk around the school area
Pupils identified landmarks important to them during a perception mapping exercise in class
Mixture of Themes
Online mapping: Mapping For Change
www.communitymaps.org.uk
Putting Ourselves on the Map
Environmental themes
• Litter
• Dogpoo
• Parks & spaces (non recorded ‘green space’)
Social behaviour
Oral history
The current
library was an
asylum in 1914
Barmy park
Behaviour
“They are beginning to understand that they are entitled to an opinion about their environment and that their ideas are valid.”
Teacher at Columbia School
