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The GA has led a number of innovative projects and this section contains materials from many of our current and past activities. Browse through the different project sections to uncover a wealth of teacher-created resources for primary and secondary geography.
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Hundreds of primary and secondary geography teaching resources covering a range of topics plus directories of geography blogs and weblinks, photo galleries, base maps, careers guidance and our NQT survival guide. Use the Resource Finder tool if you're after something specific.
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Advice and resources to help teachers and geography co-ordinators in the early years and primary phases. Teaching ideas, subject leadership tips, information about curriculum changes, Tocuaro, Barnaby Bear, primary fieldwork, cross-curricular materials and much more!
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The latest professional development courses for teachers and comprehensive information about the popular GA Annual Conference & Exhibition. You can also take part in online CPD courses, read about GA Study Tours, learn about becoming a GA Consultant and much more.
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Formerly the Geography Trainer Induction Programme (GTIP) this area supports geography teacher educators through detailed Think Pieces, Geog-Ed e-journal, resources, reading lists, weblinks and news items. It also includes materials from the annual GTE Conference.
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Online access to the GA's journals Geography, Teaching Geography and Primary Geography and accompanying resources going back to 2004. Access is free for subscribers and non-members are able to purchase PDFs of individual articles and whole issues.
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Use our online shop to browse and buy Geographical Association publications and selected products from other suppliers. Primary, secondary and post-16 resources, Barnaby Bear, guides, atlases, posters and more. GA members get up to 30% discount on all shop items!
GA members can download PDF copies of each issue of GA Magazine.
The magazine is mailed out to all members in spring, summer and autumn to keep you up to date and inspired.
In addition a 'Conference Extra' appears in the summer issue of GA Magazine each year.
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Page 11 - Sheffield and District Branch templates.
Page 14 - List of school GIS packages which accept OS digital map data.
Page 3 - Vote on the future of the GA.
Page 3 - Henry Widdup full obituary.
Page 7 - Transition Pack for Year 6-7
Page 10 - Download the aerial image of Ballykelly Forest and a Species Key below:
note: this file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have this you can get it free from the Adobe website.
Page 18 - GA Annual Conference Association at Work Day - resume of committee reports.
Page 21 - Find out about all this year's award winners including full citations in the Funding and Awards area.
Page 7 - Happy Birthday Professor Balchin! Find out more about the geographical career of one of the GA's longest-standing members.
Page 25 - Find out more about Dr David Cotton who was recently presented with a GA Certificate of Outstanding Service.
Page 14 - Caption Competition! This photo of Sue Lomas (GA President 05/06) was taken at the International Geography Olympiad in Brisbane. We thought it was in need of a humorous caption so send your suggestions to Fran Royle by 31 October - the best one wins a prize! We'll publish the winning caption in the next issue of GA Magazine.
We had so much material for this edition of GA Magazine that we decided to give you a little bit more via the website.
Page 8 - David Lambert's 'View From Here' plus six papers on the Action Plan >>>
Page 10 - more information about Professional Library Starter Packs >>>
Page 14 - Roger Nash's thoughts and photos from the Kenya 2004 article >>>
Page 16 - photographs from the Experience Pakistan report >>>
Page 17 - full text and photos from the East meets West article >>>
Page 18 - further information on the Study Visit to South India >>>
Page 19 - diary extracts from Valerie Klein's trip to Uganda >>>
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The summer issue of Primary Geography focuses on a wide variety of aspects of the geography of our food.
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The focus of the summer issue of Teaching Geography is challenge. The articles examine some of the challenges of geography teaching.
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The spring 2013 issue of Geography features articles on living with difference, the changing geography of data centres, education in Kenya, school-based assessment of fieldwork and much more.
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