Conference 2013 presentation on landscapes

1. “For anyone that likes wild and
beautiful scenery there is nothing in
Britain to equal the grandeur of the
Bens and glens of Scotland…”
Poucher, 1964

2. SAGT

3. Alan Parkinson
Teacher of Geography @ King’s Ely
Freelance Geographer & Author
Education Director, Explorer HQ
a.parkinson@gmail.com

5. Work here…

6. Digimap for Schools
• Brave in 2012
• Wrote resources for Secondary – currently
updating them & preparing new materials…

7. Pixar Film – since 2005

8. Which mountains to choose from ?

9. The Cuillins
Cioch
Inaccessible Pinnacle
Digimap for Schools

11. John Muir Trust
“Going to the
mountains is
going home…”

12. John Muir Trust

17. From the specification
• Use a range of mapping skills in geographical
contexts in the UK
• Presenting geographical information, in
detail, in at least two ways
• Describing in detail, key features of one
landscape type in the UK
• Giving detailed explanations of the formation
of one landscape type in the UK
• Glaciated upland

18. Physical Geography
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Scale
Location and distribution
Formation – timescales and processes
Changing nature over time
Impact of human activity

20. Noel Jenkins

21. Questions
Question
Grid
?
Is?
Present
Did?
Past
Can?
Possibility
Would/coul
Will?
d?
Prediction
Probability
What?
Event
Where?
Place
When?
Time
Which?
Choice
Who?
Person
Why?
Reason
How?
Meaning
Question Focus:- define, describe, analogy, explain, comment, classify, compare and or
contrast, cause, effect, sequence, create, analyse, evaluate, generalise, predict
JOHN SAYERS
Might?
Imaginatio
n

22. The Cairngorms
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‘Alpine’ climate and flora / fauna
Glaciated and periglaciated landscape
Management of visitors / habitats
A living landscape…

23. Wordle
(because no lesson is complete without one…)
@RobMorris
@GeogDog
@ChristineKelt
@Christopherpyle
@Brileyriley
@DavideRogers
@AyrshireGeog

25. Geograph – image download…

26. Google Earth

27. The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd

28. Geographer…
Going deep…
Spending time…
Is there scope for that ?

29. Robert MacFarlane

30. Mountains of the Mind
As late as 1791 William Gilpin noted that 'the
generality of people' found wilderness dislikeable.
'There are few,' he continued, 'who do not prefer
the busy scenes of cultivation to the greatest of
nature's rough productions.' Mountains, nature's
roughest productions, were not only agriculturally
intractable, they were also aesthetically repellent: it
was felt that their irregular and gargantuan outlines
upset the natural spirit-level of the mind.

31. Studying an area
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Google Earth…
KML files – Munros etc.
3D landscapes – flying through and annotating
Images
Stories from personal experience…
Apps

32. DISTANCE project
• £800 000 project to introduce the idea of ‘the
internet of things’
• Weather and mood
• Activity and performance…

33. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/HTMLDocs/dvc124/
wrapper.html

34. Going for a walk…

35. The Old Ways
• Transcript of a short passage from the book simplified
• A walk across the Caingorms, including the
Lairig Ghru
• Start: Blair Atholl
• End: NH956047

36. Activities
• ‘Follow the walk’
• Identify landscape features
• Consider issues with the activity / things that
might need amending for your students or
school context / additional resources that
might be needed
• Have a go at annotating the route, and adding
pictures of the area
• What additional activities could be added in.

37. Topicality (over the winter)

38. Assessment
Design some badges for skills that
have been developed…
Criteria for awarding them

39. Mountains in a Box…

40. Example…

41. Grabbing mountains with SketchUp
• Noel Jenkins adaptation of an idea I had…

42. Curate a page…
• http://www.pinterest.com/geoblogs/cairngorm-landscape/

43. OS Create a Map
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/custom-made-maps.html
• Shop allows creation of
map image – don’t have
to order it (though Ken
would like it if you did 
)

44. Liesel Pfeffer
Mountain collages

45. Facebook pages for landforms
Tony Cassidy

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47. Landscape haiku
Birthday cake on a table
The dog can’t reach it
But nibbles round the edges
Val Vannet

48. Questions

49. Thanks
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•See you in 2014…