Teaching Geography in Primary Schools

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978-1-899857-83-8
Published:
June 2006

Teaching Geography in Primary Schools is a resource that allows primary teachers of all levels of knowledge in geography to teach the subject with confidence. This practical teaching and learning resource covers both local and global contexts in human, physical and environmental geography.

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‘…for the individual teacher it provides a wealth of teaching materials and ideas; for the geography coordinator it will be invaluable in promoting a whole-school approach to the teaching of geography; or for students in teacher training, it will be a very useful resource.’

The Geographical Association

‘Teaching Geography in Primary Schools provides a comprehensive strategy to teach geography in primary schools... (the resource includes) materials and ideas that link to, and extend beyond, the requirements of the National Curriculum … and many of the activities could be easily adapted to make them relevant to individual schools’ localities.’

The Geographical Association

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    Benefits

    Teaching Geography in Primary Schools helps you:

    • Demystify the subject
    • Transform knowledge of everyday matters into meaningful geographical activities
    • Realise the relevance of geography to the whole curriculum
    • Raise levels of confidence for you and your pupils in such a way that you can teach the geography curriculum requirements with insight and enjoyment
    • Know what to teach and what children need to learn
    • Know why to teach in a particular way and understand the benefits children gain from learning in this way
    • To help your pupils make better, more informed decisions about how to live their lives now and in the future.

    Summary of contents

    Whether you are an experienced geography teacher or a teacher insecure in your geography knowledge, Teaching Geography in Primary Schools is for you.

    Fran Martin introduces Teaching Geography in Primary Schools in such a way that prior knowledge in the subject is not essential to becoming a successful teacher of it. All are capable of providing a rich geographical education to their pupils. The resource is very practical, but with strong theoretical underpinning. It contains units of work, exemplar lessons and copiable resources and allows you to ask the questions of ‘what?’, ‘how?’ and ‘where next?’
     
    This teacher resource covers both local and global contexts in human, physical and environmental geography.

    Chapter breakdown

    Introduction
    Who is this book for?
    Why does geography matter?
    How might the book be used?
    Part 1 Developing children as geographers – learning and teaching
    Chapter 1 Geographical enquiry and skills
    1.1 Geographical enquiry
    Exemplar 1.1 Using photographs as a stimulus for children asking questions
    Enquiry Resource 1
    Enquiry Resource 2
    1.2 Geographical skills
    Exemplar 1.2 Whole-school approach to developing map skills through a local enquiry
    Map Skills Resource 1
    Exemplar 1.3 Whole-school approach to developing fieldwork skills through a local enquiry
    Fieldwork Resource 1
    Chapter 2 Knowledge and understanding of places
    2.1 Developing children’s sense of place in their local area
    Exemplar 2.1 My place: enquiry-based fieldwork to develop a personal sense of place
    2.2 Contrasting places within the UK
    Exemplar 2.2 Using story to develop a sense of place
    2.3 Contrasting places beyond the UK
    Exemplar 2.3 Using maps and photographs to develop a sense of a distant place
    Chapter 3 Geographical patterns and processes
    3.1 Geographical patterns
    Exemplar 3.1 Weather and climate - Living Graphs
    Exemplar 3.2 Understanding settlements
    3.2 Geographical processes
    Exemplar 3.3 Flooding in Combe Martin
    Chapter 4 Environmental change and sustainable development
    4.1 Environmental change
    Exemplar 4.1 Climate change - Mysteries
    4.2 Sustainable development
    Exemplar 4.2 What is the future for Welland Orchard?
    4.3 Sustainable development and global citizenship
    Part 2 Developing children as geographers – planning and assessment
    Chapter 5 Assessment, progression and differentiation
    5.1 Progression in geography
    5.2 Using effective questioning techniques
    5.3 Feedback strategies, and peer and self-assessment
    Chapter 6 Planning for learning
    Unit of Work 1 What is our place like? How can we represent what we know and feel
    about our place?
    Unit of Work 2 How is Chaddesley Corbett connected to The Gambia?
    Unit of Work 3 How can we use numbers to help us make decisions about our
    environment?
    Part 3 Key issues in teaching geography
    Chapter 7 Frameworks for learning
    7.1 Beliefs about geography
    7.2 Substantive knowledge
    7.3 Syntactic knowledge
    Chapter 8 How children learn in geography – research-based evidence
    8.1 Theories of learning
    8.2 Building on children’s prior experiences of the world
    8.3 Thinking Skills and creativity
    8.4 Geography and the emotions

    Description

    Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 166 Pages, Published 2006 


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