Version of presentation used at SAGT 2012 without some of images and activities...

1. Brave Geography
http://www.visitscotland.com/
brave/
Images: Copyright Disney/Pixar and used in educational context…
Removed from this version as shared online rather than in classroom

2. Wall-E

3. Up

4. Tourism
Culture
Landscape
(Re)Branding
“free from
drug-abuse
and midges”

5. Standing Stones

6. “There is not
a stream or a
rock that
doesn’t have
its own
story”

7. Merida
"The environment actually
reminds me of her - this perfect
but complicated blend of hard
and soft."
Brenda Chapman, Director

8. “You can’t escape the grandeur and beauty
of Scotland. It’s so wild and rough. You
don’t find anywhere else on earth that
has mountains like that. All the lochs and
the trenches are so rugged it evokes the
mysteries and legends that have come out
of Scottish culture. The grey, cool mist
mixes in with the russet mountains. The
variation of landscape and ecosystems
makes everything feel very touchable,
everything has texture”.

9. “We went up the east coast
and found our castle –
Dunnottar Castle. We
looked at standing stones
and lochs and moss and
heather and we lay down in
it to get a real sense of
what it was like.”
Art Director

10. DunBroch
Castle
Based on
Dunnottar
Castle

11. Mountain Vistas

12. “We could only have found
out all of it by actually going
to Scotland. We wanted to
collect enough details so
we could bring them back
to make it all very Scottish.”

13. The recipe for a Scottish
Landscape
• Ingredients…
• Blended together…
• Serving suggestion…

14. Mission:Explore Food

15. Cultural Geography
Places are ‘socially
constructed’

16. “According to Brave, Scottish
people are very opinionated
and boisterous. They spend
most of their time bickering,
brawling, or drinking”.
Review

17. BRAVE
Mapping

18. Digimap for Schools

19. EDINA
• Paula Owens and I have created a
range of activities from Early Years – S4
age
• Use the OS mapping as the basis,
along with a range of tools
• Maps can be customised and printed at
a range of scales
• Individual pupils can create individual

20. Tools

21. CONTEXT
http://
www.adventuresbydisney.com/
europe/scotland-vacations/

22. Reassuringly expensive…
• $6000 = £3700
• Can we do better ?

23. Using Digimap – identify a
location suitable for a tour…..
Choose from:
• A castle
• A circle of standing stones
• A stunning landscape with a view to
match
Identify:
• The method of arrival / transport
• An activity that will be done there
• A place to stay / eat / have a comfort
break…

24. Images from Geograph…
http://www.geograph.org.uk/

25. Create a location description
report…
• E.g. Dunnottar Castle

26. OS MapStream – an
alternative….
£35 Primary - £50
Secondary

27. Living Geography
http://
livinggeography.blogspot.com
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