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not think they will be interested in the topic or who might find learning more challenging.
The characters are given two roles: Crazy Joe who belongs in this Wild West environment, and Cactus Pete, who is British and came to visit, then stayed, but obviously a ‘boffin’, and takes on the role of lecturer.
Crazy Joe always talks about 2 related questions that have been put to him by children visitors, much as they would ask Santa Claus. In some instances they are trying to upstage Joe, thus giving children the confidence to ask more questions. Joe is able to put pairs of questions together. Pairs of questions allow more variety and a wider compass in the answer Pete gives. Nearly the whole of a curriculum topic can be covered answering 2 well-chosen questions.
2. The topic map
After the warm up, Pete then explains the topic in a very information-dense session. This is the curriculum core of the whole podcast. It covers the equivalent of page after page of the text book related to the topic. It covers far more ground, far more quickly than a text book, but in a conversational style. The objective here is to pull out threads that are all woven together to form the basis of subsequent teaching. At
the end of Pete’s explanation, children will have
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