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Talking About What You See
Getting Organised Getting More Out of It Talking About What You See If you can persuade children to notice what they are looking at you will have achieved more than many teachers. Talking to them about it can help, if possible giving some focus to the looking.
Areas of interest include:
- Opinions on patterns and decorations.
- The question of age, for example which part of a building do they think is older and why.
- Practical issues - why tiles are laid in a chess board pattern, corner to corner, but bricks sit across the joints of those in the row below.
- Similarities and differences between life then and now, notably the ever intriguing subject of how people washed themselves, their clothes, and what they did for loos.
- What kind of person worked in or slept in particular rooms.
Particularly in the UK but also countries like the US it is often worth asking in museums and historic attractions if they have teacher/education packs. These are frequently good and come up with intriguing questions and ideas for children to ponder. You might have to pay for these but they include ideas particularly tailored to the place you are visiting.
(updated 13 April, 2006)
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