Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Geography

Description

Teaching Primary Geography is a hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary lessons that will inspire your class and extend their knowledge in lively and effective ways. By providing a succinct and accessible overview to over 30 geographical topics, it meets the needs of practitioners across the country and provides a single reference point for informed and creative geography teaching. Linked to the National Curriculum guidelines for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, each chapter provides easy-to-follow lesson plans that are packed full of activities and ideas, alongside a helpful summary, a myriad of interesting facts, key vocabulary, cross-curricular links, and fully formed lesson plans. Downloadable online resources are also available for immediate use in the classroom. If you are a primary practitioner or a subject co-ordinator who wants to plan and deliver an engaging and informed programme in your classroom or across your whole school, this book is for you! The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides all the subject knowledge and lesson plans you need to deliver the primary curriculum with confidence. Perfect for classroom teachers and subject leads, each book includes engaging lesson plans, key vocabulary, useful links, cross-curricular activities and much more.

Dr Stephen Scoffham has published widely for schools and teachers in the field of primary geography. He is the editor for the Geographical Association's Primary Geography Handbook (2004, 2010), chief consultant and author for the Collins Junior Atlas, UK in Maps and World in Maps, and joint author of the newly issued Collins Primary Geography textbook scheme. In 2014, he won an award for his work on devising and Teaching Geography Creatively (Routledge), a resource book for teachers. He is currently based at Canterbury Christ Church University where he is a Visiting Lecturer in Sustainability and Education. Paula Owens is an education consultant and author. Her career has spanned teaching and leadership in primary schools and curriculum development lead for the Geographical Association.

This is one of the best primary geography books I have come across in a long time. For all the non-specialist geography teachers out there, which is the majority of primary teachers, this book is absolutely fabulous! It is practical, sensible, concisely written. A must for every primary school teacher. -- Chrissy Holbrey, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University, Carnegie School of Education ...provides a succinct and accessible overview to more than 30 topics. -- Teach Primary With two Geography experts - and leading figures of the Geographical Association - authoring this book, there is something for any primary school teacher, structured around the requirements set out by England's National Curriculum... This is a great book for those wishing to overhaul and update their Geography curriculum within a primary school and could be implemented by a subject specialist, leader or teacher who loves the potential opportunities such a rich subject as Geography has got on offer. -- UKEdChat