A useful planning tool for teachers thinking about a new global topic or for use with children:
- it is particularly useful for helping us to focus on the commonality between what can appear to be quite different situations
- itcan be used to help enquiry about places, issues, or photographs representing a place or situation
You can place an image or an ‘issue’ in the centre of the ‘compass’. Questions can be generated for each of the four ‘compass points’. These could then be compared with questions generated about an apparently different situation, and the commonalities between them then explored. These questions might also be a starting point for further enquiry.
Author: Tide global learning
Year: 2013
Languages: English
Typology of education resource : Class activity
GCE Issues: GCE issues
Author: Tide global learning
Specific sub-thematic area(s): questioning, interrelationships, development
Key word(s):
Tags:
planning , questioning
School subject(s)/field(s) of studies in which the educational resource can be used: geography, social sciences, cross curricular teaching
Activity’ objectives:
The development compass rose is a tool which:
- encourages us to ask a range of questions about development issues in any place or situation [including our own]
- is used to raise questions about development issues and their interrelationship with environmental, social, economic and political issues, as well as the relationship between these dimensions
Pupils’ learning competences (SUBJECT- specific) addressed: Geography: investigate interrelationships between natural, economic, social and political factors when learning about a place or environment.
Pupils’ learning competences (CGE) addressed: Knowledge & understanding - globalisation and interdependence; sustainable development Skills- critical thinking; formulating questions ; planning own learning Values & attitudes - empathy; commitment to social justice and equity; concern for environment and commitment to sustainable development.
Methodology: Cooperative-learning, World-links method
Age range: 8-9, 10-11, 12-14
Link to website: http://www.tidegloballearning.net/sites/default/files/uploads/2c.50%20Compass%20rose.pdf
Relevant notes :
It can be used when looking at eg a local woodland area to formulate questions (local) and then use those same questions to consider eg a rainforest area (global).- A double compass rose.