Getting to grips with enquiry 2018 slideshare

Getting to grips with enquiry
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‘Our
Priory days
were akin to
working in
Area 51
compared
to most
places’
Founding
Fellow
Fellow
Fellow and
Chartered
Geographer

Enquiry learning and
Assessment of geographical enquiry
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1. What is enquiry and why is it
important?
2. A consideration of the research
evidence about enquiry.
3. Examples of what enquiry looks like
over sequences of lessons.
4. A chance to co-plan a floating
topicality sequence.

Your best teaching
moment so far….
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Great geography teachers change the world
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What is weather and how does it affect people?
Do now:
Using the shapes below, create a sketch map
of the UK. You may have to rotate them and
resize.
Mark on the location of: London, Cardiff,
Edinburgh, Belfast
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“Music excites when it is performed…”
Benjamin Britten
After Margaret Roberts, thanks to Alan Parkinson
A document is never going to be creative.
Teachers are.

“A curriculum, to be
truly educational, will
lead the students to
unanticipated, rather
than predicted,
outcomes”
John McKernanThanks to Alan Parkinson

Teachers as experts
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Draw:
What is enquiry?
Why is enquiry important?

‘Enquiry is not something to be defined once and for all on
paper. It is something to be developed in the classroom in
particular school and curriculum contexts.’
Margaret Roberts, Learning through enquiry, p25
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A high-quality geography education
should inspire in pupils a curiosity
and fascination about the world and
its people that will remain with them
for the rest of their lives.

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GCSE specifications for the discipline of
geography should provide the opportunity
for students to understand more about the
world, the challenges it faces and their
place within it. The GCSE course will
deepen understanding of geographical
processes, illuminate the impact of change
and of complex people-environment
interactions, highlight the dynamic links and
interrelationships between places and
environments at different scales, and
develop students’ competence in using a
wide range of geographical investigative
skills and approaches. Geography enables
young people to become globally and
environmentally informed and thoughtful,
enquiring citizens.

GCSE specifications in geography should
enable students to build on their key stage
3 knowledge and skills to:
- Think like a geographer
- Study like a geographer
Formulating enquiry and argument
The ability to identify questions and
sequences of enquiry to write
descriptively, analytically and
critically, to communicate their ideas
effectively, to develop an extended
written argument, and to draw well-
evidenced and informed conclusions
about geographical questions and
issues.@davidErogers

The independent investigation must: • be based on
a question or issue defined and developed by the
learner individually to address aims, questions
and/or hypotheses relating to any part of the
specification • incorporate data and/or evidence
from field investigations collected individually or in
groups
• draw on learner’s own field data and, if relevant,
secondary data sourced by the learner • require the
learner independently to contextualise, analyse
and summarise findings and data • involve the
individual drawing of conclusions and their
communication by means of extended writing and
the presentation of relevant data.

Thanks to Patcham High
School Art Department and Jo
Debens
High quality
teaching from
lesson one of
Year 7
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‘To promote intellectual curiosity and a love of learning’
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Enquiry means the excitement
of an unknown destination
picked from a multitude of possibilities.
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What are the ingredients of an enquiry?

How do I go about a geographical enquiry?
Publish
Produce
your work
Select
the best Information
Gather
Information
Ask questions
Evaluate
Questions
answered?
Criteria met?
NoYes
Start
Here
Who? Where? When?
Why? What? How?
What do you need to find out?
How will you present the information?
BIAS
For and Against
Audience
PowerPoint, Publisher, Poster, Oral,
Visual, Play, podcast, Video, Report..
Improve
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Come up with some
enquiry questions.
Should the retirement
age be raised to 80?
Is immigration vital to
the UK?
Does the UK exist?
Is it better to buy
local or support
LIDC
communities?

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Do now – How can using washing machines make a country more developed?
Using a washing machine means
Therefore, GDP
per capita
increases and the
country becomes
more developed
and has a higher
standard of living
(wealth)

Question Grid
?
Is?
Present
Did?
Past
Can?
Possibility
Would/could
?
Probability
Will?
Prediction
Might?
Imagination
What?
Event
Where?
Place
When?
Time
Which?
Choice
Who?
Person
Why?
Reason
How?
Meaning
Deeper Thinking 2nd
1st
Write at least three geographical questions about the image.
Banned Words
• People
•Things
•It / It’s
•A lot
•Pollution
•Stuff
•Up, Down, Left, Right
•Bottom, top
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Closed
Structured
Open
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Directinstruction
Studentled
An enquiry approach demands direct instruction.
Novice learners are not well placed to make good choices about what
and how to learn (Kirschner and van Merrienboer, 2013)
A blend is required based upon the stage and prior knowledge of young people

What do primary do?
By Year 1 – local area settlement patterns, tourism and use of beach, farming
system, making maps of local area, journey to school, fieldwork as homework

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Independent
Guided
Progression.
Increasing independence over time

We must move away from creating
situational interest.
Motivation needs:
- a focus on the geography
- strong teacher-student
relationships
Intrinsic
motivation
Geography
Achievement
Intrinsic
motivation
Geography
Achievement
Adapted from Garon-Carrier et al
Ashman (2018)

Enquiry is not about using Google
Knowledge Curriculum
Values
Right and wrong
Passion
Turning consumers into creators
Resilient independent learners
Critical evaluation
Image credit
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Teachers can consider
using the basic
elements of story
structure to organize
lessons and introduce
complicated material,
even if they don't plan to
tell a story in class.
Willingham, 2004
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How do we engage
young people with
the emotion of
place?
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Photo by Ugur Akdemir on Unsplash

The ashpocalypse?
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Imagine you are a journalist sent to
report on the eruption:
1. How do you pronounce
Eyjafjallajökull?
2. What does it mean in English?@davidErogers

What can I hear?
What can I see?
How do I feel?
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Secret Geographies
• Starter.
• Watch the clip. Write down:
– Adjectives to describe this place
– What you think this place was used for?
– What has happened to this place?
– How do you know?
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What senses do you have?
Hearing
Sight
Touch
Smell
Taste
Image copyright of
Pshychogeographer
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Sense of Place
Geographical back pack
Portsmouth
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Write about your secret place
• What do you see?
• What do you hear?
• What are your emotions?
• What can you smell?
• What is around you?
• What can you touch?
• How are you feeling?
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Geography detectives
In your exercise books describe what you will see in the
bottom of this image
• What has happened?
• You my ask only 10 questions
• Think carefully about your questions
• Listen to other peoples questions@davidErogers

What has that to do with me?
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Why is Mr Rogers so happy?
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Why does the UK need new houses?
1.Draw a line graph predicting what
has happened to the UK’s
population over time.
2.Describe your prediction in words:
‘I predict that the UK’s population
has…..’
Population (y)
Time (x)
Trends v
Variation
video
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How crowded is the UK?
How could we design an enquiry based upon
this?

What is the mouth of the
Amazon like?
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Why did Mr Rogers have to move?
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Starter: Spot the Border. How do you know? 3
reasons.
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15 October, 2018 What are the USA’s borders like?
USA / Canada Border
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Protected 1 5 10 Unprotected
Cold 1 5 10 Hot
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
Attractive 1 5 10 Ugly
Interesting 1 5 10 Boring
Add any other words to the circle:
USA / Mexico Border
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Cold 1 5 10 Hot
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
In your exercise book. Use these adjectives to write a 50 word description of each
border
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Geography in the news: What questions do you have about this image?
Can you guess what’s going on?
What?
When?
Who?
Where?
Why?
Where on earth is Rochina and what is it like to live there?
Monday, 15 October 2018
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Rocky’s epic journey
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Learning objectives
• Interpret geographical information in order to describe
Rochina in detail, using geographical words and data.
• Make a conclusion based on information.
• Write about different points of view.
• Make links to other geographical topics.
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Describing Rochina
Location
Sights
(most
important
first)
Physical
features
Human
features
Sounds /
smells
Feeling
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Thanks to
Noel
Jenkins

Where is Rochina?
N
England’s Training
Base
1
Write a description on the
sheet:
• Continent
• Country
• Cardinal
• City
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What is Rochina Like?
Scary 1 5 10 Safe
Flat 1 5 10 Steep
Rural 1 5 10 Urban
Rich 1 5 10 Poor
Full 1 5 10 Empty
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What is Rochina like?
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Stick in both images and annotate them, writing about both positive and
negative aspects of Rochina’s quality of life
Monday, 15 October
2018
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Using the Atlas, create a ‘Brazil Basics’ summary that compares the Brazil
to the UK
1. Use the Atlas to find out the development indicators (or use your
phone to find out more up-to-date data)
2. Fill in the table.
3. Write a comparison
Monday, 15 October 2018
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favela Rochina
environment urban
population LEDC
steep North, South,
infrastructure communications
sprawling crime
pride
in addition to likewise
on the other hand unlike
whereas contrasting to
however despite
because so as to
therefore
Rochina is located in…
The favela is most famous for….
Its main sights are……
The area is surrounded by the following physical features…
When in the favela, a person would be surrounded by…
The landscape of Rochina is very…..
There are mixed feelings about Rochina……
Officially, the favela has a population of 70,000, but in
reality…
Evidence to support me includes…
The decision of the Army to take over the area is…
Some may disagree / agree because…
Stuff
Things
It
People
Q: What is Rochina like and what is it like to live there?
ocabulary onnectives
peners anned
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What’s the mystery topic?
Astounding new figures show record numbers of migrants are
crossing the world in search of better lifestyles.
Should they be welcomed?
Are they parasites?
Or should they all go back to where they came from?
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5% asylum seekers
Driving the budget
surplus

How can you prove what a place is like if you have never been
there?
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Does Iceland
Exist?
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Onsite fieldwork

• Floating topicality
Retrieval practice (Sweller)
Forgetting

How does a safe shopping street lead to a
better standard of living?
BBC Clip

If this mountain is so dangerous why then is climbing it so
important for Nepal’s economy?
Floating Topicality@davidErogers

Developed or not?
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How could we use
this map to develop
an enquiry?
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What? Who?Why?Where?
What are these people up to?@davidErogers

Listen
• List the hazards.
• Imagine, what would you be thinking, feeling, doing if you
lived in New Jersey?
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Imagine this is your
house. Describe how
you would be feeling.
Imagine this was your
house. Describe how you
would be feeling..
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Geography in the News
Hazards Effects Other notes
e.g. wind speeds of
***mph
e.g. * million homeless e.g. recently there was
another disaster:
Draw the table below. What is the news story?
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Do now: In your books, draw what you think is in the rest of this picture…
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5 mins, group voice, EXPLAIN what you think is happening here…
One volunteer who had been helping with flood defence on the Elbe in Magdeburg
stopped for a bit of a rest.@davidErogers

Create your own
floating topicality
idea

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Enquiry is story telling.

Who are
these
people?
Why are
they
armed?
Are Mexican
migrants
armed and
dangerous?
How do I know
that they are
the US Border
Patrol?
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“Your are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more
amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here
to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
Woodrow Wilson.
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Great geography teachers change the world
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www.slideshare.net youtube for PPT files good for peer assessment
www.wordle.net Word clouds
www.surveymonkey.com Get pupil voice
GE-Graph
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Change is inevitable - except from a
vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher

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