Visual Geography: Research Frames
Using frames to support children's learning has been around for a long time. The 'Uluru' PowerPoint shows a variety of frames. A blank version of the PowerPoint Presentation and a Word document of each of the frames has also been provided.
N.B. To ensure that the hyperlinks in these PowerPoint files work correctly you will need to download them to your own computer. Right click over the hyperlinked text and choose 'save target as'. When you open the files from within your own computer the links should work correctly. You should also use this method if you experience problems downloading SMART files.
Download: Uluru Research Frame (PowerPoint Presentation)
Download: Blank Research Frame (PowerPoint Presentation)
More photographs of Uluru available for use in the classroom.
Frames
Download: Sense Impressions (Word document)
Download: Sense Impressions: Blank (SMART Notebook File)
Download: Sense Impressions: Uluru (SMART Notebook File)
There are lots of examples of sense impression sheets around. This version is the example used by Ann Hamblen.
Download: Linked Research Frame (Word document)
The format of the frame is a retrieval chart for researching non-chronological information. The linked frame idea was developed by Denise Evans, Advisory Teacher for ICT in Wakefield Advisory Service.
Download: What Can You Work Out? (Word document)
Download: What Can You Work Out?: Blank
(SMART Notebook File)
Download: What Can You Work Out?: Rainforest
(SMART Notebook File)
i.e. What do you know for certain? What reasonable guesses can you make? What questions would you like to ask? I first came across this frame In the NCC Guidance, Teaching History at KS2 (1993). I believe the questions are relevant for geography as indeed they are when using images in any context. Photographs rarely give us the whole story.
Download: Five Ws And How (Word document)
This sheet is aimed at encouraging children to formulate questions and not as a worksheet for writing answers. Popularised by the KS3 National strategy in the format of 5Ws.
Download: Conversation Between Characters (Word document)
My first memory of thinking this was a good activity came from the first edition of 'Start with a Story’. Since then I’ve seen this used on many occasions with many different age groups of children - most effectively used as part of a role-play drama lesson and not simply as a worksheet.
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