100 Ideas for Teaching Geography

100 Ideas for Teaching Geography
Author: Andy Leeder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2006-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441121803

This title takes a skills-based approach, with each section suggesting general ideas to use in everyday classroom teaching, including specific examples of how these can be used with a variety of modules from elementary school through to high school.

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Geography Lessons

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Geography Lessons
Author: David Rogers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472940970

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. _______________ Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book offers teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build solid foundations for students' understanding and learning in geography. From 'doorstop geography' in around the school and local area, to 'migration and controversy' covering hot-topic global issues, each section and idea in this book provides effective, fun and memorable strategies for creating an outstanding learning experience for your students.

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Geography Fieldwork

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Geography Fieldwork
Author: Fiona Sheriff
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2024-10-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1801994803

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. ------------- Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book features 100 tried and tested ideas for carrying out geography fieldwork in time-saving, local and low-cost ways to engage and inspire your KS3, GCSE and A-Level students. This book covers every aspect of carrying out geography fieldwork, including planning, risk assessments, data collection and evaluation, and is packed with effective low-cost ideas for investigating rivers and coasts, ecosystems and human geography for a range of locations. Each section in this book is in line with the National Curriculum and provides effective and fun ideas for everyday lesson planning and onsite fieldwork, as well as for residential trips and the NEA. From carrying out microclimate surveys with no equipment to emotional mapping, from clone town surveys to river bingo, save yourself hours of planning time and find fresh inspiration for this compulsory element of the geography curriculum with these fully-formed ideas for every budget and terrain.

Teaching Geography Creatively

Teaching Geography Creatively
Author: Stephen Scoffham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317359119

Teaching Geography Creatively was Winner of the Geographical Association Gold Award 2014 and Winner of the Geographical Association Silver Award 2017. This fully updated second edition of Teaching Geography Creatively is a stimulating source of guidance for busy trainee and experienced teachers. Packed full of practical approaches for bringing the teaching of geography to life, it offers a range of innovative ideas for exploring physical geography, human geography and environmental issues. Underpinned by the very latest research and theory, expert authors from schools and universities explore the inter-relationship between creativity and learning, and consider how creativity can enhance pupils’ motivation, self-image and well-being. Two brand new chapters focus on creative approaches to learning about the physical world, as well as the value of alternative learning settings. Further imaginative ideas include: games and starter activities as entry points for creative learning how to keep geography messy the outdoors and learning beyond the classroom how to teach geography using your local area the links between geography and other areas of the curriculum looking at geography, creativity and the future fun and games in geography engaging with the world through picture-books teaching about sustainability. With contemporary, cutting-edge practice at the forefront, Teaching Geography Creatively is an essential read for all trainee and practicing teachers, offering a variety of practical strategies to create a fun and stimulating learning environment. In the process it offers a pedagogy that respects the integrity of children as joyful and imaginative learners and which offers a vision of how geography can contribute to constructing a better and more equitable world.

Teaching Geography, Third Edition

Teaching Geography, Third Edition
Author: Phil Gersmehl
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1462516416

"Keywords: assessments, CCSS, CD-ROM, Common Core standards, Common Core State Standards, children, classrooms, content areas, curriculum, education, elementary, geography, instruction, learning, methods, middle, pedagogy, schools, science, secondary, social studies, spatial-thinking skills, standards, students, teachers, teaching This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K/n-/12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world. The Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM features more than 225 reproducible student activities; a Model Curriculum; PowerPoint slides of the book's figures and discussion guides that focus on important concepts in each chapter; specially designed K-2 resources; teaching notes with links to Common Core State Standards and Geography Standards; and more. New to This Edition *Chapter on geography in the curriculum. *Chapter appendix on the neuroscience of spatial reasoning. *CD-ROM features additional graphics, many new activities, and a Model Curriculum. *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. "--

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding History Lessons

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding History Lessons
Author: Emily Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472940938

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. _______________ Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book offers teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build history-specific thinking skills. The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling, bizarre and extraordinary about history and tap into students' innate curiosity and wonder, while still catering to the twin pressures of exam results and observation. With these criteria in mind, there are plenty of tips on demonstrating progress, ways of differentiating, preparing students for history assessments and examinations – while still having fun.

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Geography Lessons

100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Geography Lessons
Author: David Rogers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472941004

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. _______________ Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book offers teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build solid foundations for students' understanding and learning in geography. From 'doorstop geography' in around the school and local area, to 'migration and controversy' covering hot-topic global issues, each section and idea in this book provides effective, fun and memorable strategies for creating an outstanding learning experience for your students.

100 Ideas for Teaching Design and Technology

100 Ideas for Teaching Design and Technology
Author: David Spendlove
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2008-04-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441107150

Useful and resourceful - this book is ideal for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike. *100 inspirational ideas on teaching, learning and assessing design and technology *Each one has been successfully tried and tested *Ideas range from understanding the place design and technology has in the modern school to creative teaching strategies.

The Geography Teacher's Handbook

The Geography Teacher's Handbook
Author: Brin Best
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441154795

Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations. Award-winning author and former head of geography Brin Best brings a wealth of experience and a unique blend of rigour and practicality to the subject, presenting fresh, exciting and creative ideas on how to get the most from your geography lessons. The book contains advice on everything from planning schemes of work and lessons, making the most of opportunities for learning outside the classroom and available ICT to cross-curricular links, thinking skills and examples of best practice. With reflective questions and activities, scores of lesson stimuli and a host of useful links, this book is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit.

100 Ideas for Assemblies: Primary School Edition

100 Ideas for Assemblies: Primary School Edition
Author: Fred Sedgwick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2006-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441100377

This title contains one hundred ideas for assemblies in the primary school suitable for ages 5 to 11. Some assemblies will be religious and some will be secular, the former will contain stories from many religious traditions. Each assembly will carry an element of surprise, a story or a poem and an element of prayer or reflection.