“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

SAGT

Alan ParkinsonTeacher of Geography @ King’s ElyFreelance Geographer & AuthorEducation Director, Explorer HQa.parkinson@gmail.com

Work here…

Digimap for Schools

• Brave in 2012• Wrote resources for Secondary – currently

updating them & preparing new materials…

Pixar Film – since 2005

Which mountains to choose from ?

The CuillinsCioch

Inaccessible PinnacleDigimap for Schools

John Muir Trust

“Going to the mountains is

going home…”

John Muir Trust

Happy 10th Birthday

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

Physical Geography

• Scale• Location and distribution• Formation – timescales and processes• Changing nature over time• Impact of human activity

Noel Jenkins

Question Grid ?

Is?Present

Did?Past

Can?Possibility

Would/could?Probability

Will?Prediction

Might?Imagination

What?Event

Where?Place

When?Time

Which?Choice

Who?Person

Why?Reason

How?Meaning

Questions

Question Focus:- define, describe, analogy, explain, comment, classify, compare and or contrast, cause, effect, sequence, create, analyse, evaluate, generalise, predict

JOHN SAYERS

The Cairngorms

• ‘Alpine’ climate and flora / fauna• Glaciated and periglaciated landscape• Management of visitors / habitats• A living landscape…

Wordle(because no lesson is complete without one…)

@RobMorris@GeogDog@ChristineKelt@Christopherpyle@Brileyriley@DavideRogers@AyrshireGeog

Geograph – image download…

Google Earth

The Living MountainNan Shepherd

Geographer…

Going deep…Spending time…Is there scope for that ?

Robert MacFarlane

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.

Studying an area

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

DISTANCE project

• £800 000 project to introduce the idea of ‘the internet of things’

• Weather and mood• Activity and performance…

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

Going for a walk…

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

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.

Topicality (over the winter)

AssessmentDesign some badges for skills that

have been developed…Criteria for awarding them

Mountains in a Box…

Example…

Grabbing mountains with SketchUp

• Noel Jenkins adaptation of an idea I had…

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

OS Create a Maphttps://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 )

Liesel PfefferMountain collages

Facebook pages for landformsTony Cassidy

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Info Photos Boxes

I’m getting so cross with teens carving messages on me!!

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Seven Sisters are fed up of being single!

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It’s about time you sisters had a good night out! Fancy a drink?

I’m terribly sorry! They just love my meanders

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Hi. We are the Seven Sisters. We’re all single except for one! The 5th one; she's married to Beachy Head. We live in Seaford. We erode up to 30-40 centre meters each year, ouch!

Commented on Beachy Heads status, “Loving the sun” So true! The 5th sister: Love Him

By Maddy – thanks to Liz Smith

Landscape haikuBirthday cake on a tableThe dog can’t reach itBut nibbles round the edges

Val Vannet

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•See you in 2014…