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Introductory techniques
A successful investigation of a space or place is underpinned by asking questions and this has to be modelled and facilitated as early as possible.
In EYFS these questions should encourage the children to be curious about their school grounds or local area. Using open-ended questions that start with ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘when’ or ‘why’ can be helpful to encourage deeper thinking and more developed responses. For example, asking:
- What can we collect?
- What can we see, hear, smell and touch?
Questioning techniques
Pupils can go on treasure hunts to find, locate and/or collect colours, numbers, patterns, things that are linked to water, seasons or are beautiful, old, rough or weird.
Simple cardboard view finders can be a great enabling device for this and pupils could suggest some words that could be written on the cardboard.
Questions
- Do you think you will be able to find things for each of the words on the view finders?
- Will you be able to find all of the things in the same place?
- What have we found out?
The Geographical Association (GA) has worked closely with the Field Studies Council (FSC) to develop these resources.
