Introduction
Using Games in School Geography encourages fun and interactive teaching and learning of secondary geography by interspersing geography games and activities within curriculum teaching. This accessible resource for geography teachers allows for independent learning triggered by thinking skills development.
Benefits
This resource will enable you to:
- Encourage enthusiastic participation in your geography classroom
- Improve performance using games, which have been proven to be effective teaching and learning tools
- Contribute to students’ social and emotional aspects of learning, developing skills of empathy, decision-making and critical thinking that they can use across the curriculum and throughout their lives
- Add to your own range of teaching strategies, particularly those which encourage interaction with students, and develop your own games and simulations.
Summary of contents
This collection offers a portfolio of tried and tested games and simulations for secondary school geography students. Each of the exercises can be applied to a particular National Curriculum strand of geography, covering Key Stages 2 to 5. Designed to be interspersed within geography curriculum teaching, they represent a variety of styles that range from the simple to the complex.
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Details
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 142 Pages, Published 2007
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