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Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched

and snied, it may just be the most revolu9onary geography-
related book ever published.
Geographical Magazine

Daniel Raven Ellison

Na#onal Geographic Emerging Explorer
TED speaker
Founder of Greater London Na#onal Park
campaign
UrbanEarth explorer

Explorer HQ
Started out as Mission:Explore in 2006
Funded by Ordnance Surveys GeoVa#on fund
iPhone app launched
Work with The Workshop: a Sheeld design
company on community projects
Completed a series of follow-up books and projects
Work with Helen Steer (a London Leader) and
award winning illustrator Tom Morgan Jones.

2006
First book was Daily Telegraph / Hay Fes#val
Outdoors Book of the Year, 2011
Shortlisted for Educa#on Writers of the Year
Award 2012 previous winner Bill Bryson
runner-up
Shortlisted again in 2014 runner-up again

Cultural Olympiad 2012

Glastonbury Latitude Secret Garden

Party Sunrise Festival Outdoors Show
BETT Education Show National
Geographic TED talk
Primary Schools - Undergraduates

Oh blimey the book is

BRILLIANT!!!!! It needs
to be in every school
in the country!
Emma Freud

Worked with

Thames Water, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

(WWT), RSPB, Mayor of London, London Sustainable
Schools Forum, the Royal Bank of Canada Blue Water
Project and the UK Environment Agency.

Our new badges

and curriculum
missions

Mission:Explore is splendid great fun, and a lovely

way to get children out into their environment and
using their brains.
Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood

What is a mission?
A short challenge that involves explora#on real or imagined

1. Learning taking place, even if precise objec#ve is

unclear, unagreed or unknown
2. A star#ng point
3. Meaningful and relevant
4. Irregular, quirky or unexpected
5. Accessible, inclusive and dieren#ated by outcome
6. Outdoors and/or in the real world
7. (In)formal, with family or friends
8. Usually include a crea#ve output for sharing and
reec#on
9. Fun

Adventurer

Creator

Experimenter

Explorer

Hacker

Interpreter

Surveyor

Protector

Performer

Time-traveller

Maker

Storyteller

Social media
Facebook
Face to face
Images
alanparkinson@kingsely.org
#missionely
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Children of all ages have an appetite for thirst

for exploration, adventure and challenge. And
the world around them, while not without its
dangers, is full of wonder, surprise and delight.
Yet all too often, we grown-ups let fear and
anxiety get the better of us, and get in the way
of giving children a taste of freedom. So hats
off to the Geography Collective for taking a
stand against the cotton wool culture and
doing their bit to expand the horizons of
childhood.
Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing up in a
risk averse society

ludic pedagogy

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