Intermediate Senior Geography

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 primary through to secondary. It is a highly practical, clearly laid out and punchy guide to teaching geography effectively. Author Andy Leeder is currently a geography teacher. He has a real passion for his subject and his enthusiasm comes across in his writing.

Combining a selection of resource and reference materials with specific classroom activities, this book offers teachers new ways to help students understand the concepts underlying the study of history and geography. Resources include range from documents, letters, speeches, diaries and eyewitness accounts to folktales, legends, novels, poetry, music and song, and technology.

An overview of geography -- Geography as a social science -- Location -- Patterns -- Patterns of natural elements -- Continents and oceans -- Landforms -- Geomorphology: the description and classification of landforms -- Rocks and minerals -- Weather and climate -- Earth's waters -- Plants and animals -- Biogeography -- Patterns of human elements -- Where people live -- Differences in housing -- Adobe -- Differences in work -- Agriculture -- Mining, logging, and other industries -- Arrangements of political units -- Settlement patterns -- The association of elements in an area -- People and the natural environment -- Conservation and conservationists -- Interactions between areas -- How geography is studied -- Topical geography -- Regional geography -- Historical geography -- Cartography -- Geographic information systems (GIS) -- Maps and globes -- Map projections: necessary distortions -- Reading a map or globe -- Intuitive searches and basic grids -- Latitude and longitude -- Scale -- Map symbols -- Map and globe orientation -- Advantages of globes and atlases -- Types of maps -- Transportation maps -- Political maps -- Physical maps -- Thematic maps -- Cartograms -- Mapmaking -- The history of geography -- The age of discovery -- National survey organizations -- Geography as a discipline -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Conclusion.

When Geography specialists decide they want to teach, it can be a daunting prospect to enter a realnbsp;classroom, no matter how much subject knowledge they already possess. Geography: Teaching School Subjects 11-19 puts the subject into perspective and shows new teachers and student teachers how to make Geography accessible and interesting for their pupils. Divided into three sections the book examines the theory and practice of teaching geography: section one explores how teachers can frame their own knowledge for classroom practice section two focuses on Geography in the classroom and curriculum development as well as aspects of pedagogy and lesson design, evaluation and assessment section three focuses on the teachers themselves and how they can view and work on professional development within their own subject area.

The second edition of the national geography standards for geography education. "The revised edition features restructured content and a new format. Revised content captures the growth and importance of geospatial technologies and spatial thinking in geography over the last 18 years. Each standard is presented through four components: an introductory essay; knowledge statements; performance statements and examples. Knowledge statements and performance statements are broken down by grade band (grades 4, 8 and 12)."--NCGE website.

Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary Schoolhas become the widely recommended textbook for student and new teachers of geography. It helps them acquire a deeper understanding of the role, purpose and potential of geography within the secondary curriculum, and provides the practical skills needed to design, teach and evaluate stimulating and creative lessons. This fully revised and updated second edition takes account of new legislation and important developments in geography education, including literacy, numeracy, citizenship, and GIS. Brand new chapters in this edition provide essential guidance on fieldwork, and using ICT in the context of geography teaching and learning. Chapters on teaching strategies, learning styles and assessment place the learner at the centre stage, and direct advice and activities encourage successful practice. Designed for use as a core textbook Learning to Teach Geography in the SecondarySchoolis essential reading for all student teachers of geography who aspire to become effective, reflective teachers. Praise for the first edition of Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School: 'This is a practical and visionary book, as well as being superbly optimistic. It has as much to offer the experienced teacher as the novice and could be used to reinvigorate geography departments everywhere. Practical activities and ideas are set within a carefully worked out, authoritative, conceptual framework.' - The Times Educational Supplement 'This is a modern, powerful, relevant and comprehensive work that is likely to become a standard reference for many beginning teachers on geography initial teacher training courses in England and Wales.' - Educational Review

The Reading Geography: Teacher's Guide provides just the right amount of easy-to-use grade-level support materials. Designed to save you time, this guide will help you individualize and enhance instruction for your diverse learners.The Teacher's Guide includes:suggestions on how to use this program practical ideas for using reading strategies practical ideas for using graphic organizers blackline masters a section on vocabulary and concept development unit tests

Many students have difficulty reading geography textbooks. Students often struggle with the organization of the textbooks, the complexity of the information presented, the concept load, and the unfamiliar vocabulary. In addition to problems presented by the texts, students themselves often have limited comprehension and reading skills.Reading Geography provides texts developed for these students. Each book in the series presents the information students need to be successful, through short, concise readings that are written well below grade level. A consistent format is used to allow students to understand the organizational structure of each lesson and of the unit. Charts, diagrams, and graphic organizers are incorporated to help make complex geography concepts more accessible to students. Each reading also includes an appropriate reading strategy to help student comprehension.Each lesson includes:a reading strategy to help students navigate the text a think-aloud that models the reading strategy a brief summary of the key concept a real world connection activity helpful review questions to check for understanding The Teacher's Guide provides just the right amount of easy-to-use grade-level support materials.Reading Geography Grade 7 small-group set includes:Teacher's Guide (1 copy) Unit 1: The Five Themes of Geography(4 copies) Unit 2: Patterns in Physical Geography(4 copies) Unit 3: Natural Resources(4 copies) Note: Four copies of each unit (consumable student workbooks) and one teacher guide are included in the small-group set. To order a class set (25 copies of each unit and one teacher guide) please phone customer service at 1-800-667-9673.

Highly Commended Geographical Association Award 2002 'Has been judged as likely to make a significant contribution to geography' This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary thought and practice in teaching geography. It is designed to support continuing professional development and reflective practice in geography education by: encouraging a critical understanding of the literature and concepts; stimulating teachers to continue with personal and professional development; and providing professionally relevant knowledge, understanding, skills and values. Drawn from a wide range of eminent geographers and experienced practitioners, the authors cover: progress in geography - changing viewpoints; the geography curriculum - development planning and issues; and research and geography teaching - why and how research matters. This book is essential reading and a valuable resource, for student and practising teachers of geography at secondary school level, as well as for those responsible for continuing professional development and subject leadership.

This book provides geography teachers with 50 cohesive suggestions for embedding and extending learning in the classroom- from individual to whole-class activities, and from the energetic to the sedate. Even better, every starter and plenary is easily-adaptable for the whole ability range of your class and ideas for extension and development keep each activity fresh. There are also PowerPoints, task sheets and other time-saving resources online. The book covers the whole spectrum of topics that every geography teacher needs to cover. Some ideas involve students managing and monitoring each other; others involve creative thinking and where practical and appropriate, the content is embedded in the real world so that students can immediately see the wider application of their efforts. In the 'teacher's tips' section, the author offers guidance on how to deliver the idea to get the best results based on years of trial and error.

'Teaching Geography as if the Planet Matters provides a timely outline of powerful knowledge and arguments that will be needed to counter a strengthening of current curriculum orthodoxies. Not until school geography undergoes the revolution that this book outlines can it honestly claim to be contributing to more sustainable futures.' - John Huckle, Visiting Fellow at the University of York and was formerly Principal Lecturer in Educaton at De Montfort University. We are surrounded by images and warnings of impending environmental disaster. Climate change, famine, population growth and urban crisis coupled with more recent financial chaos all threaten our sense of what it will be like to live in the future. This thought-provoking text looks at how Geography teachers can develop approaches to curriculum and learning which help students understand the nature of the contemporary world. It sets out a model for teaching and learning that allows teachers to examine existing approaches to teaching and draw upon the insights of geography as a discipline to deepen students' understanding of urban futures, climate change, 'geographies of food' and the 'geographies of the credit crunch'. Features include: examples of suggested teaching activities questions and activities for further study detailed case studies sources of further reading and information The true worth of a school subject is revealed in how far it can account for and respond to the major issues of the time. The issue of the environment cuts across subject boundaries and requires an interdisciplinary response. Geography teachers are part of that response and they have a crucial role in helping students to respond to environmental issues and representations.