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Activities for exploring geography in primary school
The Geographer’s Brifcase is a collection of useful materials for guiding primary school children though a series of activities for exploring geography.
Through these materials, the students can discover maps, imagine the development of land, project an airport, understand volcanoes, have fun with contour lines, learn how to use scales and legends…
The Geographer’s Briefcase accompanies children on a fascinating journey of discovery of the world through games and the use of concrete materials.
The pedagogical reference point is the teacher Alberto Manzi – the beloved writer of Orzowei and host of the Italian Sixties television program “It’s never too late”. To teach children to think, Teacher Manzi always suggested doing things in a way that “the child can do them”.
The Materials in the Case
The case is equipped with a series of materials which are ready to use:
The notebook with guidelines and suggestions for the activities
A two-sided poster for building land and sea environments
350 cards with topographical symbols of natural and man-made elements
15 cards with contour lines to represent elevations, lakes, seas
4 cards for classifying the geological age of elevations
Discovering geography with the materials in the case
The notebook provides numerous examples of activities
that the children can do. Some of these require the use of the two-sided poster and the symbol cards. Here is how
it becomes a poster, as it is only full of blank spaces at the
beginning. Naturally, the children can have fun imagining new stories, different from the ones suggested in the notebook, inventing new maps at the same time.
Here are some examples of the activities which can be done with the materials from the case.
Centro Zaffiria
The Zaffiria Center promotes media education, and experiments with a divergent and poetic use of technology, develops educational material and games, designs and implements workshops and initiatives for children, and shares ideas and projects with teachers and families.
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