What is All the Fuss About?

Name of Teachers

Dave Collinge and Susan Proctor

Key Stage

Key Stage 4, Year 10

Focus

Regeneration of the Whitefield area of Nelson

Summary

This practical sequence of lessons involved students in photographing the area and interviewing a variety of local people, with different perspectives about the regeneration of their place.

Concepts and Big Ideas

• Place
• Space
• Scale
• Interdependence
• Sustainable Communities
• Reasoning with Maps
• Geographical Imaginations
• Geographical Communication

Places

East Lancashire
Whitefield, Nelson

Adapting this scheme for your own school

This scheme developed through the teachers’ desire to use their own locality rather than the textbook example that they had previously solely used. The teachers felt that by exploring their own locality, that was in an area of housing market renewal, the students would be motivated to engage in geographical thinking at a higher level.

Files to download

• Scheme of Work
• Student Questionnaire Results
• Student Display 1
• Student Display 2
• Whitefield Photos (zip file)
• Nelson Photos (zip file)
• Example Interviews