A Different View: Links
All the links featured in the section 'A Different View and YOU' are listed here. Please get in touch if you'd like to suggest a website for inclusion.
Early Years & Primary
Young Geographers Project
Understanding everyday lives through maps and stories
Investigating changing environments through maps and stories
Exploring landscapes through maps and stories
Primary Handbook Extension Project - view sets of resources created by teachers building on themes found in the Primary Geography Handbook
Primary Champions Network - join the Primary Champions network and link with a group near you for free CPD and online resources
Primary Geography Quality Mark
Geography from Square One
Geography from Square Two
Key Stage 3
KS3 Ning - an online network for KS3 geography teachers
Planning a new KS3 - advice from the GA's Secondary Phase Committee
KS3 Geography Teachers' Toolkit - GA publication series
Young People's Geographies website
GTT website - 16 units of work are available including schemes of work, animations, images and videos
Secondary Geography Quality Mark
Key Stage 4
Top Ten ideas for promoting GCSE geography
Think Piece - Thinking About GCSE
How ICT can support the delivery of the new GCSE specifications
Join the relevant KS4 NING and share your thinking and resources as you develop your new teaching programme:
AQA A
AQA B
OCR A
OCR B
EDEXCEL A
EDEXCEL B
WJEC
Becoming a Geography Teacher
Become a Geography Teacher - advice from the Geographical Association on becoming a geography teacher including information about routes, what it's like to be a trainee and application tips.
TDA - The Training and Development Agency for schools
Geography Teacher Education
Related Think Pieces categorised by theme:
Geography: a curriculum resource par excellence
Making maps (primary)
Numeracy (primary)
Geography and literacy (primary)
Using maps and atlases (secondary)
E-learning (secondary)
Developing writing (secondary)
Thinking geographically
Human geography (primary)
Physical geography (primary)
Concepts (secondary)
Fantastic geographies (secondary)
Physical geography (secondary)
Living Geography
ESD (primary)
Global dimension (primary)
ESD (secondary)
Global dimension (secondary)
Global Warming (secondary)
Values and controversial issues (secondary)
Questioning (secondary)
Geography and young people
Children's worlds (primary)
ESD: Pupil perspectives (secondary)
Investigating and exploring geography
Geographical enquiry (secondary)
Diversity (secondary)
Geography and the 'real' world
Fieldwork (primary)
Fieldwork (secondary)
Curriculum making with geography
Developing the curriculum 1: curriculum planning (secondary)
Developing the curriculum 2: planning for progression (secondary)
Professional support
Geography Events - listings of forthcoming and past CPD events including the popular GA Annual Conference
Geographical Association online shop
Primary Geography Champions - access a national network of groups of primary schools run by local Primary Geography Champions
Local Support and Networks - information on the GTT website about local networks and support available to set up new ones
Geography Teaching Today - offering linked resources, online tutorials and curriculum CPD
GA Ning - an online professional network for geography teachers
Diplomas
Construction and the Built Environment
AQA
Edexcel
QCA
Environmental and Land Based Studies
AQA
Edexcel
QCA
General Information
DCSF 14-19 Reform
Diploma Support - QCA
TDA
The Diploma - Directgov
GIS
GIS for A-level Geography
GTIP Think Piece - GIS in geography teaching and learning
Getting started with GIS
GIS Zone - Ordnance Survey
King Edward VI 5 Ways School GIS website
Learning Outside the Classroom
A-Z Advancing Geography: Fieldwork
Think Piece - Early Years and Primary Fieldwork
Young Geographers
Fieldwork File: For the primary years
Fieldwork File: Managing safe and successful fieldwork
Think Piece - Secondary Fieldwork
Living Geography: My Place My Space
Beyond the Bikesheds - Fresh approaches to fieldwork
GTT: Fieldwork links and resources
ICT based rivers fieldwork
Courses from the Field Studies Council
GeoResources - provides a range of virtual fieldwork resources
FSC website which reviews fieldwork from KS3 to A-level
Learning Outside the Classroom: Resources
Learning Outside the Classroom: Case Studies
Geography Teaching Today: Fieldwork
RGS templates for local fieldwork
Staffordshire Learning Net - an excellent geography site which includes a variety of fieldwork resources
Breathing Places - a BBC initiative promoting outdoor learning
Support for Disabled Students Undertaking Fieldwork
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