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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 12: Images of a country
Section 5: Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?

QCA

Objectives
Children should learn:
  • how to question initial perceptions
  • to understand perceptions are often misinformed
  • that media have the power to influence people's perceptions of places
  • to examine images for evidence of sustainability
  • to reflect on and evaluate their own performance

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Ask pupils to use an image as a centrepiece and to try to create a continuation of the photograph, ie what is in front/at the side of it.
  • Then give pupils parts of the same photograph over a period of minutes and get them to explain how their views develop/change as more information is given.
  • Ask pupils to analyse and evaluate perceptions/stereotypes of their own country, eg how pupils in Japan and Kenya might view Britain from films.
  • Discuss with them what they would include in an information pack to counter misinformed perceptions.
  • Give pupils a pack of images of a favela and ask them to use the contents to list their initial impressions. Then suggest that they try to find evidence in the images which may reflect a more sustainable lifestyle, eg evidence of recycling, sustainable transport, ventilation rather than insulation.
  • As a concluding activity ask pupils to repeat the two activities from 'What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?', using the same photographs and to compare their responses with the original ones.
  • Then ask them to reflect on and critically evaluate their work and what they have learnt. Ask them to record this in a short paragraph, which also notes how they will improve their interpretation of images in the future, eg identify a series of small steps they need to follow.
  • begin to challenge their own perceptions of a place, appreciating that perceptions can be misinformed
  • offer alternative images to challenge other people's perceptions of places
  • appreciate the power of the media in influencing people's views
  • appreciate how other people's lifestyles may be more sustainable than their own
  • identify ways in which their interpretation of images is improved

Points to note
  • Teachers could access alternative images of different countries via the internet. News and government sites provide interesting sources. Teachers can use a large screen to project and annotate images as a class activity.
  • Key skills: links with improving own learning and performance where a more considered interpretation of an image is the target. Pupils use the plan-do-review cycle; confirm their understanding of targets and how these will be met, follow plans using support and review achievements and progress.

    • Safety

    • all off-site visits must be carried out in accordance with LEA and school guidelines

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1. What are these places like?
2. What feelings does the photographer create in the observer?
3. What messages are given?
4. Who has chosen these views? Why these views?
5. Do the photographs tell the whole story about a place?