Web-based enquiries
There is a mass of information on the internet, but it is varied in its quality and presentation. Purposeful use of the internet for the development of the global dimension requires careful teacher mediation. Consideration needs to be made of the information on each website.
- Who is behind it?
- When was the information presented?
- Is it still current?
- Which country does the information originate from?
However reliable the information is, it is always worth confirming it with another source.
Web-based enquiries are one way of using a variety of sources and relating them to an issue. They are a way of stimulating pupils to participate in an in-depth and challenging enquiry. Carry out the activity on the right, which focuses on a web enquiry.
Activity Resources:
- Images
- Interactive
- Sound
- Text
- Video
Activity
- Go to the 'Geography' section of the Staffordshire learning net website. Staffordshire learning net Click on 'Web enquiries' and then 'Listings page'. Now scroll down, and click on 'Flowers from Kenya'.
- Carry out the web enquiry 'Flowers for my lover' and consider how this type of resource supports teaching and learning for the global dimension in geography.
- Devise your own web enquiry on an issue relating to the teaching of the global dimension. One of the activities should involve the pupils in using or manipulating a global or world image.
