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USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY

USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY. Alison Vaughan whsav@rgfl.org a.vaughan85@gmail.com. P ersonal, L earning and T hinking S kills. QCA:

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USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY

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  1. USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY Alison Vaughan whsav@rgfl.org a.vaughan85@gmail.com

  2. Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills

  3. QCA: “QCA has developed a framework for describing personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) that applies to all young people aged 11-19…The aims of the [new] curriculum are that young people should become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.”

  4. The six strands of PLTS

  5. The Thinking Skills Strategies • Advance Organisers • Analogies • Audience and Purpose • Classifying • Collective Memory • Fortune Lines • Living Sources • Mysteries • Odd One Out • Reading Images and 5Ws • Relational Diagrams • Summarizing

  6. Thinking thro’ Geography

  7. http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/thinking_through_geography.htmhttp://www.sln.org.uk/geography/thinking_through_geography.htm

  8. Designing an animal to live in a Rainforest Looking for clues in pictures Packing a suitcase Interpreting Climate Graphs Redesigning a shanty town Card Sort Who killed Chico Mendez?

  9. Metacognitive Plenary • Focus on explanation of choices • Reasons are more important that the choices made! • Allow time to review choices made • Allow students time to share ideas • Evaluate skills used, especially how decisions have been made

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