The document discusses curriculum design in geography through fieldwork and experiential learning. It provides examples of the author's work with various organizations to create educational resources using virtual and real-world experiences. The author advocates for getting students outside of the classroom to directly experience places and incorporate literacy, inquiry, and exploration into the curriculum.

1. “ you should get out more…”

2. Mission Explore - creative curriculum design through fieldwork

3. Mission:Explore - creative curriculum design through fieldwork

4. http://livinggeography.blogspot.com

5. Last 3 months Royal Geographical Society - 3 projects Royal Meteorological Society Google - World Wonders Project Badger: Better GCSE grades textbook Ordnance Survey: Digimap – education pack… Twig: Notes for geography films & new films TeachIt Geography – editing and curation CPD around the country and beyond Mission:Exploring Harper Collins: online updates & children’s book Open University: VITAL Geography portal management National Geographic Education

6. Last three years…

7. Mission:Explore

8. Geography Writing the earth

9. Curriculum “ the subjects comprising a course of study…”

10. What is curriculum making ? “ the creation of interesting, engaging and challenging educational experiences which draw upon teacher knowledge and skills, the experiences of students and the subject resource..”

11. Student Experiences Geography: the subject Teacher Choices Underpinned by Key Concepts Thinking Geographically Which learning activity ? Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?

12. Geographical Association Curriculum Review Group Preparing for new KS3 change Role of assessment / use of technology

13. It started with a… phone call

14. “ cotton-wool kids” “toxic childhood”

16. Geography Awareness Week Were you aware ? http://www.missionexplore.net

18. Hay Festival and National Trust Outdoors Book of the Year 2011 Runner-up Educational Writer’s Awards 2012

19. Geography without fieldwork is like science without experiments…

20. Virtual fieldwork Google Street View / immersive panoramas Mediascapes Foot & Mouth 2001

21. “ A virtual fieldtrip is like a virtual pint of beer…” Chris Durbin

22. The Map that Came to Life http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/l/lampitt/map.htm

24. The Map that Came to Life http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/l/lampitt/map.htm

25. Literacy Tom Morgan-Jones

26. “ The Language of Landscape”

27. Cultural Olympiad Discovering Places

28. Walk the World http://www.walktheworld.org.uk/ Launched by Nick Crane Developed by RGS-IBG

30. Connections Follow a walk…

31. “ Get lost somewhere you can’t get lost…”

32. Books – Websites – iPhone app – Festivals – Camps – CPD – Clothing….

34. Cultural / Regional differences

35. Enquiry

36. Exploration

37. Giving permission...

38. REVOLUTION Rules What if? So what?

42. Exp lore Exp eriment Exp erience Exp ertise

43. “ Experience is the overcoming of perils. The word “experience” shares a common root (per) with “experiment,” “expert,” and “perilous.” To become an expert one must dare to confront the perils of the new.” Yi-Fu Tuan 1977

44. National Geographic Education

45. Earning your badge ?

46. The Website The Workshop – Mark Pearce

47. Challengers Leaderboards

48. New for 2012 New partners: OS & GeoVation Schools can set private challenges Games (timed missions with leaderboard)

49. We can write missions for your area… North Devon AONB Great Glen, Scotland SUSTRANS – cycle routes across UK Mission:Explore Newcastle Geography Camp: Suffolk – Summer 2012 Hay Festival

50. GeoVation Missions

51. We’re all explorers, so go and explore...

52. Tim Oates Chair of Curriculum Review Aims "embody for all children in England their cultural and scientific inheritance, enhance their understanding of the world around them and introduce them to the best that has been thought and written"

54. The Outdoors Show

56. "may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published" - ‘Geographical’ magazine review