...a context for geography....

1. “ Having a snow day ” Image: Alan Parkinson

3. On Tuesday 3 rd of February, 1 in 5 of the working population took the day off work....

4. Image: Flickr user Kevan Creative Commons Parts of the country came to a virtual standstill

9. There was some criticism about school closures

10. Boris Johnson defended the lack of London buses, and suggested this was not a day to ‘skive’...

13. Enquiry question Is snow lovely or evil ?

14. A YPG curriculum will : – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers – draw from young people's everyday experiences – extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum – emphasise dialogic pedagogies – enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world

15. TASK Produce a lesson which includes a range of resources to explore the enquiry question. The activities need to match the description of a Young People’s Geographies curriculum on the previous slide. Use a range of web tools to produce creative resources. Wordle produced at http://wordle.net Remember CREATIVE COMMONS labelling.