On board with us this morning were around 300 Key Stage 2 pupils and their teachers from four schools throughout the UK, namely Bramhope Primary School near Leeds, West Yorkshire (https://www.bramhopeprimary.co.uk/); The British School in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire (https://www.thebritishschool.co.uk/); Abbey Park First School in Pershore, Worcestershire (https://abbeypark.worcs.sch.uk/) and Purley Oaks Primary School in Croydon, Surrey (https://www.purleyoaks.croydon.sch.uk/). After a formal welcome and introductions, as well as sharing the aims of the workshop and proposed format for the session, we moved on to our ‘starter’. I launched Digimap for Schools and projected a map of the UK to pinpoint our locations (https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/). Never miss an opportunity to enhance pupils’ locational and place knowledge! Our first task was to challenge any misconceptions that pupils had. We asked them what they thought Brazil was like and where they…Continue readingOff to the Amazon again … twice in one week!
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This was the question that we hoped to discover the answer to during a whole day’s virtual workshop to the Amazon. On board today’s event were more than 120 Key Stage 2 pupils and teachers from Middleton Primary School near Leeds in West Yorkshire (https://www.middletonprimary.org/), as well as a handful of Year 3 to Year 6 children from Wrightington Mossy Lea Primary School, a very small establishment close to Chorley in Lancashire (https://www.mossylea.lancs.sch.uk/). On their arrival into the Zoom meeting, all classes were re-named after a group with an interest in the Amazon, e.g. researchers; farmers; miners; loggers; tourists; developers; indigenous people; conservationists. After introducing ourselves and making use of Digimap for Schools (https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/) to identify our various locations within…Continue readingSo, ‘what really makes the Amazon so amazing?’