Teaching Geography at Key Stage 2 (Teaching and Learning Through the National Curriculum) (Teaching & Learning)

Bill Chambers

Chris Kington Publishing

Odd one out; living graphs; mind movies; mysteries; story-telling; fact or opinion; classification; reading photographs; curriculum development; big concepts; professional development.

Thinking Through Geography

Science & Math

Simon Chandler

Earth Sciences

Making Meaning provides unique guidance for teachers and other professionals in education, equipping them to use many practical and creative thinking methodologies. It deals with the teaching and use of thinking skills through the perspective of making meaning. It introduces logovisual thinking as a generic method of making meaning that: encourages participation in active enquiry, irrespective of preferred learning styles and personalities makes thinking processes more visible helps learners, teachers and managers deal with complexity and diversity facilitates constructive and creative learning relationships. For learners, it: activates higher levels of thinking produces understanding through discovery develops social and communication skills in small group and plenary work. For teachers, it: improves lesson design supports facilitation of higher order thinking gives structure to enquiry and exploration. For educational managers, it supports: making sense of complex issues articulating purpose and vision developing strategies and plans. Rich and varied case studies show the range and depth of applications. The 18 exemplars cover various parts of the curriculum, assessment studies and management issues. They also demonstrate making meaning in individual, small group, class and large group settings.

Making Meaning:Learning through logovisual thinking

Anthony Blake

Brin Best

John Varney

Using Games in School Geography A new collection of games and simulations for your geography classroom to challenge and excite your students!  This brand new collection offers a portfolio of tried and tested games and simulations. Each of the exercises can be applied to a particular National Curriculum strand of geography, covering Key Stages 2 to 5. They are designed to be interspersed among your curriculum teaching, represent a variety of styles and range from the simple to the complex. As well as enriching subject teaching they also encourage students to put themselves in the place of others, developing important social skills, empathy and critical thinking.  The exercises in this new collection include operational games, role-plays and mathematical simulations. Simulations range from the exploration of development priorities on an island in the tropics to the issues underlying a local road-building project, and from the impact of large-scale ecological change to finding a good location for new settlement. Full materials and instructions for the use of each exercise are provided, along with a commentary for teachers. This new collection will enable you to: * encourage enthusiastic participation in your geography classroom * improve performance using games, which have been proven to be effective teaching and learning tools * contribute to students' social and emotional aspects of learning, developing skills of empathy, decision making and critical thinking that they can use across the curriculum and throughout their lives * add to your own range of teaching strategies, particularly those which encourage interaction with students, and develop your own games and simulations

Using Games in School Geography

Education & Teaching

Rex Walford

Schools & Teaching

Contemporary Approaches to Geography, Vol. 3: Environmental Geography

Charles Rawding

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