Recently added articles from Teaching Geography:

Editorial

Apr 01, 2008; Roberts, Margaret ... The importance of geography This issue of Teaching Geography contains a poster displaying the Importance Statement from the new Geography National Curriculum together with the seven key concepts. It has been designed to go on classroom walls so the statement has been slightly re-worded ...

Food Stories

Apr 01, 2008; Jackson, Peter ... Children are often accused of not knowing where their food comes from or how it was produced. Stories proliferate about consumer ignorance, and parents often seem indifferent to government advice about healthy eating. Childhood obesity is at the top of the public health agenda, with changes in ...

Fieldwork: 'Placing' people

Apr 01, 2008; Moncrieff, Daniel ... 'Now when I was a chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and ... I would put my finger on [one] and say, when I grow up I will go ...

Liverpool: Capital of Culture

Apr 01, 2008; Rawding, Charles; Williams, Lucy ... Charles Rawding and Lucy Williams offer suggestions for how you can use Liverpool's status as Capital of Culture 2008 as a topical stimulus in the geography classroom. The designation of Liverpool as joint European Capital of Culture (ECOC) (with Stavanger) offers a topical opportunity ...

Using Theme Parks in Geography

Apr 01, 2008; Davies, Richard; Knivett, Louise ... Richard Davies and Louise Knivett provide an excellent example of using resources and experiences familiar to students to help them develop the key process of graphicacy and the key concept of cultural diversity. 'When students are enjoying a lesson it shows. It shows in their attention ...

Geography in the Frame: using photographs

Apr 01, 2008; Halocha, John ... In this article, based on his workshop at the GA Annual Conference in Derby in 2007, John Halocha brings together a variety of strategies for using photographs. He emphasises how the study of photographs can deepen understanding of places and environments at the same time as developing key ...

Layered decision making: coastal protection along the Holderness coast

Apr 01, 2008; Avanessian, Anna ... Anna Avanessian applied the strategy of 'layered decision making' to a lesson on coastal erosion in Holderness while she was a PGCE student. It provides a powerful way of examining the complexity of the issue of coastal erosion. Layered decision-making is a strategy for engaging students ...

Location, location, location: the next step

Apr 01, 2008; Fox, Peter S ... Peter S. Fox describes work which followed year 7 fieldwork (Parnell, 2007). The article outlines how this was managed, the key objectives of the exercise and how a number of obstacles were overcome along the way. Those students in year 7 who had worked on the first part of the project ...

Using Horrible Geographies

Apr 01, 2008; Taylor, Richard ... How do you settle a noisy group of students at the start of a lesson, as well as improve their iteracy levels? Richard Taylor suggests 10 minutes' silent reading, using the Horrible Geography series. As a department we had highlighted specific groups and specific lessons that were ...

The RADwaste project

Apr 01, 2008; Usher, Bob ... Bob Usher introduces the London Grid for Learning's RADwaste project, an online GCSE geography resource freely available to all schools in the UK via the National Education Network (NEN). One of the most powerful aspects of the RADwaste project is what it isn't about. The project is not ...

Training new geography teachers

Apr 01, 2008; Tapsfield, Andrea ... Andrea Tapsfield examines the state and status of geography teacher training in England. Geography NQTs who enter secondary teaching today are better trained than ever before. That is official. It is what Ofsted have found from their inspections of geography ITT courses and it is also ...

My Places

Apr 01, 2008; Rawling, Eleanor ... Eleanor Rawling looks back at the places that have shaped her life. Geographers do not just see a place as an Objective thing' in the world that can be described and explained as they build up geographical knowledge. 'Place' is also experienced on a personal and deeply emotional level ....