Promoting creativity


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		Biome mimes Ask the pupils to imagine that visitors have arrived from outer space. In small groups, pupils create mimes to describe the different biomes on earth to the aliens. The rest of the class (the aliens) has to guess which biome they're miming. [Nicola Gamble, Comberton Village College, Cambridgeshire]


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		Savage earth – creative writing After viewing video material of an earthquake – preferably including accounts from those who experienced the earthquake -- ask year 9 pupils to put themselves in the place of one of the survivors and write a letter to their best friend describing what he or she experienced during and immediately after the earthquake. [Sue Gray, Gleed Girls’ Technology College, Spalding]

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Climate change explorer
This information sheet introduces an environmental arts education project for year 9 pupils that explores the artistic potential of scientific data to raise awareness and facilitate learning and actions on climate change. The information sheet is an outline of what the project intends to do. The Climate change explorer website (www.ecn.ac.uk/cce) contains further information.

Material produced by pupils can be downloaded from the project website.
[Lucy Milton, The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN)]
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Enjoying while destroying
An activity in which pupils take a humorous approach to a serious subject by exploring the impact of tourism through cartoons.
[Paul Jenkins, Rawlett School, Staffordshire]

Other information

The National curriculum in action website provides guidance on, and examples of, creativity in geography.

'Creativity -- criticism and challenge in geography', an article by Chris Durbin on creative teaching and learning in geography.

'Cartoons with a message', an article by Paul Jenkins on the creative use of cartoons with year 9 geography pupils (published in the journal Teaching geography). This work can also be found in the example 'Enjoying while destroying' on the National curriculum in action website.

The RGS-IBG website provides examples and suggestions of how the arts, eg music, art, poetry and novels, can be used in the teaching of geography.





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		Learning matters

		-	Introduction

		-	Enquiry learning

		-	Getting started

		-	Thinking skills

		-	Values, attitudes and issues

		-	Using maps

		-	Using images

		-	Using popular culture

		-	Using print material

		-	Using statistics and graphs

		-	Using props and models

		-	Using ICT

		-	Promoting creativity

		-	Communicating outcomes

		-	Plenaries



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