“Having a snow day”

Image: Alan Parkinson

On Tuesday 3rd of February, 1 in 5 of the working population took

the day off work....

Image: Flickr user KevanCreative Commons

Parts of the country came to a virtual standstill

News reporting...

• Go to Sky News homepage to view all the newspaper front pages each day – good for comparing the reporting of stories.

• This can be done whenever there is a major world event.

What was the impact on:

• Small businesses• Commuters• Essential public services• Emergency services

There was some criticism about school closures

Boris Johnson defended the lack of London buses, and suggested this was

not a day to ‘skive’...

BINGO game adapted for the snow and figures....

• 800 flights cancelled at Heathrow airport• 12 inches of snow fell in Dorset • 14 vehicles rescued from a hill near Lyme

Regis• Worst snowfall for 18 years• Etc....

Discuss...• Margaret Morrissey, of the Parents Outloud campaign group, said

it sent out the message that if life gets difficult you should simply stay at home.

• She called for an "emergency plan" to be introduced to allow more schools to stay open in the event of bad weather.

• Her comments come as thousands of schools across the country announced that they would be closing their doors for the second day running.

• Mrs Morrissey said: "We are giving children the message that when things get difficult you should just stay at home and have fun.

• "Then, when they keep taking sick days from work when they grow up we wonder why."

Enquiry questionIs snow lovely or evil ?

A YPG curriculum will: – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers– draw from young people's everyday experiences– extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum– emphasise dialogic pedagogies– enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world

TASKProduce a lesson which includes a range of resources to explore the enquiry question.

The activities need to match the description of a Young People’s Geographies curriculum on the previous slide.

Use a range of web tools to produce creative resources.Wordle produced at http://wordle.net Remember CREATIVE COMMONS labelling.