More Thinking Through Geography is another resource for geography teachers at secondary level to create lessons led by geography thinking skills. This geography resource provides more thinking skills activities to help teachers integrate transferable learning skills into their teaching of geography.
More Thinking Through Geography
£45.00
Phase:
- Secondary
ISBN:
978-1-899857-43-2
Published:
May 2005
‘Have you ever wondered how to make your lessons even more interesting, exciting and create that “buzz” factor? More Thinking Through Geography advises on ways of doing just that, in addition to raising student performance and meeting government targets on both thinking and key skills.’
‘The influence these strategies have had on other publications is already noticeable and with this award the GA recognises the significant contribution thinking skills in geography is making to teaching and learning in schools.’
‘disarmingly simple ... superb geography lessons ... blends research-based rationale with classroom practicalities ... honest and thoughtful accounts of exemplar lessons ... a joy to read ... no geography department can afford to miss out on what this book offers.’
‘More Thinking Through Geography is a very good sequel to its impressive predecessor and will stimulate further advances in the teaching and learning of geography in many secondary schools.’
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Summary of contents
From the same stable as Thinking Through Geography, this title, like its predecessor, maintains a direct focus on students’ learning and promotes teaching thinking. More Thinking Through
Geography contains eight strategies to enable teachers to further diversify their catalogue of teaching approaches and endorses the importance of teachers engaging in their own professional development to learn why these approaches encourage thinking.
The book has 12 clearly structured chapters, four of which give advice on how to integrate the strategies within the curriculum, use the strategies as part of an assessment scheme, integrate thinking skills into department development plans and explain how to develop effective debriefing skills. Consideration has also been given to adapting methods to suit different ability and age groups.
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 1 More Thinking Through Geography
Introduction
Levels of use
Raising standards
Assessment for Learning
Thinking Through Geography and learning across the curriculum
Using the exemplars
The Exemplars: Strategies, Big Concepts, NC Thinking Skills and Other Learning Outcomes
Chapter 2 Most Likely To....
Exemplar 1: Tourism in the Rainforests. Y9
Exemplar 2: Farming in the UK. Y10
Chapter 3 Maps From Memory
Exemplar 1: Urban Transport in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Y10/11
Exemplar 2: The British Isles - Using KS3 Map D. Y7/8/9
Exemplar 3: Destructive Plate Margins. Y8/9
Chapter 4 Making Animals
Exemplar 1: Making Animals and Plants. Y7–12
Exemplar 2: Migration - Packing for a Journey. Y8/9
Exemplar 3: Improving a Shanty Town. Y10/11
Exemplar 4: Improving a Rural Village. Y7/9
Chapter 5 Five Ws
Exemplar 1: The San Francisco Earthquake 1989. Y9
Exemplar 2: Farming in Upland Areas. Y10/11
Exemplar 3: Natural Environments. Y9
Chapter 6 Taboo
Exemplar 1: The Water Cycle. Y8
Exemplar 2: Settlement. Y10/11
Chapter 7 Layered Decision Making
Exemplar 1: Migration: The Stuarts Move House. Y7–10
Exemplar 2: Dam the Consequences. Y9–12
Exemplar 3: A New Stadium for Middleton United? Y9–12
Chapter 8 Concept Maps
Exemplar 1: Comparing Earthquakes. Y8/9
Exemplar 2: The Decline of Deep Mining. Y10/11
Exemplar 3: The Three Gorges Dam. Y12/13
Chapter 9 Predicting with Video
Exemplar 1: Migration in North East Brazil. Y9
Exemplar 2: Conflict and Change in Urban Areas. Y12
Exemplar 3: Coastal Processes. Y10/11
Chapter 10 Departmental Visions and Planning for Change
LINDA THOMPSON, Sandbach School, Cheshire
JEREMY KRAUSE, Senior Adviser: Geography, Cheshire County Council
Chapter 11 Infusing Geography Schemes of Work with Teaching Thinking
Chapter 12 Debriefing
Appendix 1 National Curriculum for England definitions of Thinking Skills
Appendix 2 A Glossary of Thinking Skills
Bibliography
Details
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 174 Pages, Published 2001
