Teaching Primary Geography is a hands-on guide to planning and delivery 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 KS1 and KS2, 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. 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!

 

This book is part of a book series called Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 264 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

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/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 Dr Stephen Scoffham is a Visiting Reader in Sustainability and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the author of many texts for children and teachers on primary geography and has won awards from the Geographical Association for his publications for the past two years running (2014 and 2015). Stephen has been an elected member of the Geographical Association's governing body since 2011.