PTI Primary Hub - Mapping Session June 2024

PTI Primary Hub

1. PTI Haberdashers’
Primary Geography Hub
5th June 2024

2. Exploring meaningful and
memorable maps inside (and outside)
the primary geography classroom

3. ALAN PARKINSON
GEOGRAPHER, AUTHOR
HOD KING’S ELY PREP
GA PRESIDENT 2021-22
VP Education - RGS-IBG



@GeoBlogs
[email protected]
Image: Richard Allaway, CC licensed

4. Cambridge Dictionary

6. Image: Tom Morgan Jones

8. Image by Alan Parkinson under CC license

9. “Childhood is a branch of
cartography”
Michael
Chabon

10. Mapping your holiday - Seaside - Skegness

11. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children
-lost-right-roam-generations.html
https://www.centreforecotherapy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/
2021/07/Natural-Thinking-RSPB-report.pdf

13. But this area has declined…
https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/john-muir-award/ideas-and-resources/missionexplore-john-muir

16. Technology

17. “Geography is the art of the mappable”
Peter Haggett

19. Everyday
knowledge
is powerful
knowledge

20. Meaningful

Memorable

21. “The urge to map is a basic,
enduring human instinct.”
Jerry Brotton, professor of
renaissance studies at the
University of London

22. “When we travel, we travel
through an infinity of
simultaneous stories…. and
maps are a surface over
which these stories are played
out…”
Doreen Massey

24. Story Spaces - Doreen Massey

25. Place

26. Progression Document
Written by my former colleague Dr. Paula Owens, and available as part of a
suite of free resources produced by the Ordnance Survey / EDINA for their
Digimap for Schools resource.

27. Early Years

28. Year 1 & 2

29. London

30. Exploration
Build up contexts where maps can be used…

31. The world according to…

32. Worldmapper

33. http://remove.bg

34. Journey to School

35. Some approaches we use at King’s Ely Prep Model by
Paula
Owens /
GA

36. Ötzi - the Ice Man - Italian or Austrian?

37. Classroom

38. “A child’s sense of place is tied to activity” Tuan (1977)

Consider how this has declined… post-pandemic

40. Front gardens and flood risk
https://frontgardens.nationalparkcity.org/blog/crazy-paving-
who-ll-step-up-to-end-front-garden-loss/

41. Progression document from Digimap for Schools
https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/learning-resources/resource/progression-mapping.html

43. Palimpsests… layers of stories

44. Granularity - increasing detail when zooming in

45. https://everythingwetouch.org/Gallery-Archive

47. https://www.google.com/doodles#archive
https://doodles.google/doodle/105th-anniversary-of-first-expedition-to-reach-the-south-pole/

49. "Planning the curriculum… is a
strange mixture of rational
organisation and serendipity"
(Eleanor Rawling, 2007)

50. Paul Ganderton

52. Go outside - Sharon Witt

53. https://geography.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sharon-Witt-Field-VIsiting-as-a-collective-endeavour-GA.pdf

54. YouTube Channel - OS

56. Dan Raven Ellison
https://youtu.be/FvLPNmSNums?si=1swFsDlf0KhCUsKX

57. Steve Backshall
https://youtu.be/c0du8v4EE_Y?si=SX-F4KEH2_peGR0I

58. Simon King
https://youtu.be/OSa4npgYeJE?si=Hp8r7c57Z4t697qC

59. Jo Crowley
https://youtu.be/pNd0HyhwV90?si=cwuz
WV2W8Pp3rhCz

60. https://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/

61. Colours

62. Colouring out, rather than colouring in.

If somebody asked them what colour water is, what would they say?
What colour is a forest?
What colour are buildings?
What colour are fences?
What colour are rocks?

63. Designing symbols

64. Peter Vujakovic
All maps do a job of ‘work’ – they say something about what is
important to their maker and what is not (what is left off). Map
readers, as well as makers, also bring something to the process of
mapping – they are not passive consumers of information.
Each time a person picks up a map, the relationship changes. Some
commentators go as far as to argue that any engagement with a map is
a continual process of ‘mapping’ – meanings, ideas, and behaviours
constantly come into being through encounter between the map and
‘mapper’.

66. Meaningful Maps Project
http://meaningfulmaps.org/

67. Where do maps feature in your
curriculum?

When do you ask students to create
maps?

What is mapped?

How are these maps created?

68. Tim Dunn

69. ‘… curriculum is not a physical thing, but
rather a series of interactions between
teachers, students and the knowledge to
be imparted. The curriculum is more a
human, rather than a technical, process. In
other words, curriculum is far messier and
more dynamic than the clean, ‘scientific’
process implied by ‘rational curriculum
planning.’

70. Geographical Association

75. Now it’s time to plan for more map work in your
curriculum