This document provides an overview of resources from the Geographical Association related to teaching geography to young people. It includes quotes about making geography relevant to students' lives and interests. Images and links are provided on topics like social media use in the classroom, creative writing exercises, and using mobile apps to explore landscape concepts. The goal is to engage students by connecting geographic concepts to their daily lives and interests through interactive lessons and activities.

1. “Everyday Geography” Image by Flickr user duncan under Creative Commons

3. Alan Parkinson Born 1963 Students in Year 7 – born 1998 Students in Year 13 – born 1992

4. Children of the “Noughties”

5. Image by disco~stu (Flickr)

6. Tweet (first day after recent snow) One aim So that students say: “I get to do geography today” rather than “I have to do geography today”...

7. Young People : say hello to Martin He has geography with you tomorrow…

8. Young People’s GeographiesAction Plan Funded project2006 – presentStudents having agencyhttp://youngpeoplesgeographies.co.uk/

9. GA: Curriculum Making & Young People“..we want students to realise that geography can be ‘about them’, growing up in the world...”

10. Geography = writing the earthOpportunities for writing and story telling ?

11. Students Teachers The Subject

12. creativity

14. NINTENDO DS GAME

15. “This game is very good but anyone looking to become a teacher and thinking this may help is wrong, simply because you don’t learn very much and the lessons are very short....”Comment on Amazon website

16. Teachers as “curriculum makers”

17. Margaret Roberts “cycle”...

18. Starter : Jim Kosek

20. What matters to young people ? What interests young people ? What excites young people ?

21. Research into Young People... A beta life….

22. “To work out how to operate a TV set you practically have to make love to the thing."

23. consumptionculturecommunity

24. Hot or cold ? Winners and losers in the big freeze... A starter

25. http://www.lovelylingfield.com/images/sledge_minibob.gif

26. Flickr CC: ECOSOSLOG

27. “Teacher talk dominates classrooms and controls the process by which communication takes place, by deciding what kind of talk is permissible, by whom and for how long.”Margaret Roberts

29. Courtesy: Learning Teaching Scotland

30. Persuasive writing

33. Why is this house so cheap ?

34. Where else might you try to sell a house ?Activity: estate agents writing

35. Other possible locations that might be hard to sell.... ??

36. place & space

37. food

40. Gracenote Mapshttp://www.gracenote.com/map/

41. interdependence connections IMAGE: Flickr User DrJohn_2005 Creative Commons

42. “Age of Plastic” Image: FLICKR user: ncr23 – Creative Commons licensed

43. sustainability PETS “2 German shepherd dogs use more resources per year than the average Bangladeshi...” lifestyles...

44. “The Language of Landscape”

45. Tony Cassidy’s iPhone app

46. Environment Agency

47. What other contexts could this be used for ?

48. Crime and Globalisation

49. Social mediaFacebook templatehttp://slideshare.net/tonycassidy

50. Q Search Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Beachy Head Seven Sisters…I love you  Info Photos Boxes Wall Ads Loving the sunny weather  I am getting a tan! Share View photos View videos Recent activity- Beachy Head commented on Seven Sisters wall post. Information Hello, I am Beachy Head, Britain’s highest chalk cliff. I live near Eastbourne in East Sussex. I’m married to one of the Seven Sisters in Seaford and I love the sun x Hello neighbour. The tide is high  Groups Friends Yes, those waves are eroding my side x Seven sisters Older posts River Cuckmere re Birling gap By Ben

51. Q Search Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Snowdon I’m feeling on top of the world!!! 10hrs ago Info Photos Boxes Wall Ads I'm being walked on again  Share View photos View videos Recent Activity Information I'm Snowdon, a mountain in North Wales. I’m 1,085 metres high. I’ve even got a nature reserve around me!!! Hey Snowdon, thanks for the add how's things going over there ?? Groups Friends The Snowdon Wildlife Reserve. Yeah, I know, I am fed up of seeing that train! Llyn Ogwen Glyders Tryfan Older posts By Zoe

52. Q Search Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Dr.Blue Lagoon says: I wish people would stop skinny dipping in me! 1 minute ago Info Photos Boxes Wall Ads Too many people splashing around. Share View photos View videos Recent Activity Information I just hurled some water 70 ft high. You should have seen their faces lol I am a large geothermal spa located in the south west of Iceland. I have an average temperature of 40 degrees and people are forever taking their clothes off to bathe in me! I’m fed up of being dormant. I fancy some action! Groups Friends I love Iceland Fans of the Blue Lagoon. I am flying to the Westmann Islands for some peace and quiet. Catch ya later ;) Geysir Eldfell Mr. Puffin Older posts By Dale M

53. Image by Flickr user Bu Yousef

54. The blog and the book

55. The Geographical Association “furthering the learning and teaching of geography”