Mission:Explore @ the Suffolk Suffolk Humanities Conference

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Alan Parkinson GA Primary Geography

Champion Freelance Geographer

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Co-founder Daniel Raven Ellison

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Place contexts...
London - iPhone app Ordnance Survey - viewpoints Cities: SUSTRANS routes along canals Lowestoft area - public transport Iceland (Discover the World) etc. London - Sustainable Schools - water focus & tomorrow the world...
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Three weeks ago...

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Two weeks ago...

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#KIDSMEET

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& today....

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Scoffham book

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Children & boredom...

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Dr Teresa Belton
Boredom can be an uncomfortable feeling Creativity means being able to develop
internal stimulus

Children need to have stand and stare

time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or observing the world around them.

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History version...

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Teaching creatively through history means treating history first and foremost as an active process of enquiry by children. It involves the use of the creative imagination grounded in evidence, where the teacher: sets up open-ended and wide-ranging investigations stimulates children to think actively and constructively, putting together different sources of evidence to construct a picture of the past challenges children with mysteries to solve asks children to pose questions, to form hypotheses, then to test these against the evidence encourages discussion and debate engages pupils' imaginations through storytelling, simulations and drama

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Mission Explore
Book - 500 missions
written

100 chosen by young

people...

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"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students" Professor Danny Dorling

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Primary Colleagues
Ruth Potts: Primary Geography - Summer
2012

Using Mission:Explore to promote talk in

the classroom...

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Missions as starters for chat...

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Emma Dawson

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Mission:Explore London

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Website

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Food Book..

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Cookbook.... and more...

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Risk National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year Award

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cotton wool kids

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Yesterdays paper...

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Giving permission

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a geographical lens

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playful learning fieldplay

learning directly in the untidy real world outside the classroom GA (2009)

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Creativity - defined
thinking and behaving imaginatively purposeful activity directed towards an
objective original

processes that generate something which is outcomes that are of value in relation to
the objective... Craft (2000): possibility thinking
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Place Making
A meaningful segment of geographical
space

Simultaneously in the past, present and

future...

socially constructed...
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8 way thinking... Ian Gilbert

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Sharon Witt University of Winchester

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6 categories of outdoor play / learning

Free exploration Guided exploration Close encounter play Creative play Imaginative play Simulations

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Which have you used recently ?

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 4 Ds of Enquiry (Cooperrider & Whitney,

Stephen Pickering Messy Geography

1999)

DISCOVER DREAM DECIDE DO

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The Anglo Saxons

What did they ever do for us ? What were their lives like ? How were they similar to us ? What questions would you like to ask
them ?

Some appropriate missions...

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Time Chronology
Past, present and future in the same place... Stories from the past

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Timelines
Before Then Now Soon Perhaps...

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Local stories
Geology / vernacular geographies Icknield way - journeys / pilgrimages evidence of these journeys...

Settlement Ritual... beliefs and the impact of the

changing seasons on the community

Food and water

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Media to capture the story...

Sounds Pictures Stickies Boggly eyes Textures Smells Numbers Stories Tastes
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writing the landscape

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Handouts

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Recipe for W. Stow

Used this before for the Scottish landscape Identify the essential elements of West
Stow for this activity

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Ive identied some relevant missions

Sheet...

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Activities
Swatching nature... Go the mint stint

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Stay Safe...

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Feedback and reports...

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Further information

http://www.missionexplore.net http://livinggeography.blogspot.com

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