Description:
The Primary Geography Handbook has undergone a
major revision. We’ve included references to the latest government directives, added details of new research, updated the sections on ICT, changed many of the photographs and listed the latest websites and resources.
This edition is still available to purchase at the reduced price of £ 24.99 non-members, £14.99 members.
The Primary Geography Handbook is rich in practical ideas, broad in examples and inspiring in its commitment to improving the content and method of primary geography. It will provide support and guidance to both specialist and non-specialist teachers of geography.
Steering away from the details of how to teach a particular government initiative or set of requirements this new edition provides a bedrock of pedagogical and theoretical ideas which will have lasting credibility. There are reports on current research into children’s ideas and thinking about the world and the references and bibliographies will be particularly useful to students and those pursuing higher level degree courses.
The 26 chapters are divided into five main sections, covering learning, skills, places, themes, and curriculum management. Issues such as good practice, progression and in-service training are covered throughout. A navigator page helps you locate material on a range of topics quickly and easily and the index guides you to more detailed information.
Above all, the Handbook is intended to inspire. Chapters on teaching approaches as diverse as emotional geography, creative thinking and global citizenship are included. This book is designed to help you achieve your teaching objectives and enable children to enjoy learning in a vibrant classroom environment.
The Handbook will be available in duo-format, as a book and CD-ROM, enabling you to use the supporting images in you own school. Additional material will appear on the GA website to keep the resources up to date.
Would I recommend it? I already have to my students! It will quickly become the key text for primary geography for all ITE courses. But I do believe all primary schools should buy it too, as well as joining the Geographical Association Greg Cracknell reviewing for TES Teacher, January 2005
CONTENTS
Section 1 – Geography and Learning
Chapter 1 - Young Geographers
Chapter 2 - Creativity in Geography
Chapter 3 - Geography and emotional intelligence
Chapter 4 - Making geography fun
Chapter 5 - Early Years
Chapter 6 - The NC and beyond
Section 2 – Geographical skills
Chapter 7 - Enquiries and Investigations
Chapter 8 - Maps, globes and atlases
Chapter 9 - Drawings and photographs
Chapter 10 - Fieldwork
Chapter 11 - Geography and language
Chapter 12 - Geography and ICT
Section 3 – People and Places
Chapter 13 - Exploring the local area
Chapter 14 - Contrasting UK and European localities
Chapter 15 - The wider world
Chapter 16 - The global dimension
Section 4 – Themes and topics
Chapter 17 - Weather and climate
Chapter 18 - Rivers, coasts and landscapes
Chapter 19 - Settlement
Chapter 20 - Environmental geography
Chapter 21 - Citizenship and PSHE
Section 5 – Managing the Curriculum
Chapter 22 - Planning the curriculum
Chapter 23 - Assessment, recording and reporting
Chapter 24 - Inclusion and SEN
Chapter 25 - The geography co-ordinator
Chapter 26 - The inspection process
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