Fish and fungi, plants and protists, mammals and monera all seem to get along swimmingly in and around the peaceful-looking pond environment. But a closer look at a small square reveals an ever-changing world. . .home to a larger variety of creatures and goings-on than youd ever imagine, even in just a drop of its water! This beautifully illustrated you are there science book--part of the critically acclaimed One Small Square series--is brimming over with fun-to-do experiments and activities for children ages 7 and up. Includes a pond field guide, a glossary-index, and a resource list.

This pack contains 5 copies of Geography Mastery Pupil Workbook 6 (for Year 6 pupils). These engaging workbooks help pupils take ownership of their work. They include high-quality pupil activities, investigations, sources, images, case studies and information texts. Within the workbooks there are units on Mapping the World; Global Challenges: Climate Change; Global Challenges: Trade. The workbooks also feature knowledge organisers for every unit and knowledge quizzes for every lesson to help embed learning. There are also opportunities to evidence learning and show progression. Geography Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 geography lesson across your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, Geography Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school. Ensuring full coverage of the National Curriculum, these tried and tested resources meet the requirements of the 2019 Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and enable consistent, high-quality teaching across a school or Multi Academy Trust. Geography Mastery is part of a suite of primary programmes that also includes History Mastery and Science Mastery, brought to you by Oxford University Press and Ark Curriculum Plus.

This pack contains 5 copies of Geography Mastery Pupil Workbook 3 (for Year 3 pupils). These engaging workbooks help pupils take ownership of their work. They include high-quality pupil activities, investigations, sources, images, case studies and information texts. Within the workbooks there are units on UK Settlement and Land Use; Climate and Climate Zones; Europe. The workbooks also feature knowledge organisers for every unit and knowledge quizzes for every lesson to help embed learning. There are also opportunities to evidence learning and show progression. Geography Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 geography lesson across your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, Geography Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school. Ensuring full coverage of the National Curriculum, these tried and tested resources meet the requirements of the 2019 Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and enable consistent, high-quality teaching across a school or Multi Academy Trust. Geography Mastery is part of a suite of primary programmes that also includes History Mastery and Science Mastery, brought to you by Oxford University Press and Ark Curriculum Plus.

For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography curriculum the irony of which would be that it would ensure that every child could point to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan on a map.

Prof. Dennis Hayes Oxford Brookes University, UK

'A prescient and critical analysis of the changing face of geography
teaching. This book deserves to be widely read and debated. Alex Standish's book puts current trends in geography teaching in historical and critical context. It comprises a forthright and timely defence of geographical education for its own sake.'

Dr Jim Butcher, FRSA, Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure, Canterbury Christ Church University.

Since the early 1990s, educational policy makers and some subject leaders have been seeking to fundamentally change the teaching of geography in UK and US schools, from a subject which encourages students to explore spatial concepts, ideas and skills, to a more ethics based subject concerned with the promotion of environmentalism, cultural diversity and social justice. In this book the new approach is critically examined, within a historical and ideological context, addressing a number of fundamental questions:

• Should geography be used as a tool for the delivery of citizenship ideals? How does this affect the intellectual and moral value of geographical education for young people?

• If the state and teachers are taking more responsibility for the values, attitudes and emotional responses of students, how will they learn to develop these qualities for themselves?

• If global perspectives shift the focus of education from learning about the outside world to learning about the self, what is its vision of social progress and conception of social change?

This book advocates a return to liberal models of education, arguing that the new approach to geography currently being promoted for schools fundamentally undermines the educational value of the subject, and the freedom of young people to shape the world in which they live.

A vital resource for teachers and student teachers alike, "Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum makes a significant contribution to the growing debate about the future direction of the discipline itself.

The Go Facts Natural Disasters strand contains topical information on recent natural disasters such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The set of books covers all the nonfiction text types - information report, explanation, recount, instructions, discussion and persuasion. Other writing features such as compare and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect are included to show pupils how they can improve their non-fiction writing by incorporating these structures into their own work. Also inside are labelled illustrations, experiments, tables, maps, timelines and captions. Suitable for reading ages 8-10.

Support your students to achieve their best grade with the ultimate course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all syllabus requirements, with exam practice questions to check understanding and consolidate revision. - Fully prepare for the final assessment with examiner advice on how to approach and explore each topic, including additional top tips and common mistakes. - Practice and revise effectively from a range of strategies and a variety of high achieving example answers. - Focus revision by using key terms with definitions listed for each topic and subtopic of the course. - Answers available to download for free: www.hoddereducation.co.uk/ib-extras

Help your students understand and conduct fieldwork enquiries in their local area with Progress in Geography Fieldwork: Key Stage 3. Nine ready-made fieldwork enquiries contain the instructions, data and activities your students need to successfully carry out, analyse and evaluate fieldwork in their local area or in the classroom. Save time planning and easily integrate fieldwork into your KS3 curriculum with enquiries such as how safe do people think my local area is for cyclists; how sustainable is my local community; and what are the different microclimates around my school. This book can be used flexibly throughout KS3, to gradually builds towards the skills needed for fieldwork at GCSE. Progress in Geography Fieldwork: Key Stage 3 will allow pupils to: - Experience primary and secondary data collection techniques, from traffic counts to quality of life questionnaires - Learn how to present and analyse data effectively - Develop skills of evaluation to judge the strengths and limitations of various techniques - Complete enquiries even if they are unable to leave school grounds, through the data provided in the book

Implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS) has become a crucial consideration for large organizations. This book offers insight to practitioners and professional students as to why they have been developed, how they are implemented and the barriers that can impact on their effectiveness. A practical, experience-based text written by leading consultants and researchers, the book explores the drivers that have led to the development of environmental strategies and the benefits of formulating a complete EMS. The book examines the way in which EMSs are structured to ensure that a company achieves continuous improvement in environmental performance. Alongside practical advice for businesses that wish to achieve accreditation, the book addresses key issues to be aware of to ensure optimum benefits, different strategies that companies may adopt to establish an EMS and the challenges that arise when trying to integrate an EMS into the business strategy. Also included is a review of the ways in which academics try to categorize and predict the effectiveness of these different approaches to EMS using modelling tools. Finally, case studies are presented to demonstrate examples of companies that have implemented their own EMS, the different approaches that they have taken and the resulting issues that have emerged. This is essential reading for all environmental practitioners as well as students of environmental management and business.

Focusing on different aspects of play and relating them to various contexts such as places that we visit and past times, this book is packed with fun and exciting activities that enable the child to make sense of the world that they live in and relate it to their own experiences in order to enhance their personal and social development.
The book includes: specific links to geography and history; proven approaches to stimulating, supporting, and extending play; sections on investigating the role of adults in stimulating learning through play; ideas on how to choose contexts that will engage children's enthusiasm; case-studies that translate theory into practice; advice on ways to become competent and reflective practitioners.

Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022 Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old. Informed by research findings and learning theory, it provides a progressive framework for sustainability education spanning all subject areas and applicable in a wide range of settings. There are over 180 age-related teaching ideas on topics such as conservation, health, food, wildlife, climate change, social justice and sustainable living, as well as provocative questions designed to stimulate educational debate. Written by two highly experienced UK-based educators, it draws together specially commissioned contributions from Australia, Israel, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Key concepts and links to the UN Global Goals (SDGs), are highlighted throughout. A companion website offers an extensive toolkit of specially prepared PowerPoint presentations and details of over 100 lectures, reports, picture books, websites and classroom and INSET teaching resources.

Mentoring Geography Teachers in the Secondary School supports both new and experienced mentors in developing their knowledge and skills in mentoring in geography education. Within the book, chapter authors critically consider how mentoring has been conceptualised and represented in policy and academic debate, as well as examining how mentoring in geography education has been experienced and perceived in practice. Chapters in the book explore a range of perspectives, experiences and aspects of mentoring geography teachers, including: * Critical engagement with educational policy and practice * Perspectives from beginning geography teachers * Mentoring as a professional development opportunity * The value of engaging with the geography education community in teacher education * How mentoring meetings and conversations can support beginning geography teachers in their growth and development This book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of geography teachers. The themes of justice, agency and voice - raised and engaged with implicitly and explicitly throughout this edited collection - are of critical importance to mentors, beginning teachers and geography education more broadly in developing and enacting a progressive vision of mentoring.

This book provides a practical illustration of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach in the secondary classroom. As will as discussing concepts and ideas, the book gives a critical examination of some of the key issues, and will encourage the reader to engage with the ideas and consider their views and beliefs. It is an invaluable resource for those who are learning to teach or for those teachers who wish to reflect on their teaching practice.

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The advent of the National Primary Strategy has produced a welcome reminder to teachers of the importance of geography within the primary curriculum. This book aims to encourage this renewed awareness and to support teachers in teaching primary geography in different and exciting ways. It will show that children have an entitlement to learn about geography and this can be achieved in a lively, creative fashion uplifting for both teachers and children. It covers: planning for and assessing progression in learning inclusion ICT and drama indoors, outdoors and beyond. Written in association with the Geographical Association, this book will help both trainee and experienced teachers to integrate geography as an essential part of the primary curriculum.

Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts: Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective; Part 2 is an overview of the 'global agenda', or subject knowledge of environmental education; Part 3 introduces perspectives on theory and research in environmental education; Part 4 moves on to practice, and presents an integrated model for planning environmental education programmes; Part 5 brings together invited contributors who talk about environmental education in their own countries - from 15 countries including China, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the USA; Part 6 returns to the core questions of how progress can be made, and how we can maximise the potential of environmental education for the twenty first century.

Published in 1995, this book seeks to show how geography teachers can meet the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4 without abandoning principles of good practice. It considers geographical education in the contexts of geography itself, society and education. Deriving principles of good practice from these contexts, the author gives guidance on how to produce case studies (or curriculum units) that both reflect these principles and respond to the requirements of the National Curriculum following the Dearing Revised Order.

Becoming an Outstanding Geography Teacher supports all geography teachers in offering a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning that will stimulate and engage students. Providing a variety of techniques for planning inspiring geography lessons, the book shows teachers how they can use current resources in a more innovative way to produce outstanding results. Chapters include sample lesson plans which demonstrate each technique with a step-by-step discussion of the development of the lessons, and have a strong focus on activating learning and supporting pupils on their individual learning journeys. The book covers all aspects of geography teaching, including: designing programmes of study differentiation questioning literacy and numeracy teaching A Level enquiry geography feedback and assessment. Packed full of strategies and activities that are easy to implement, Becoming an Outstanding Geography Teacher is essential reading for newly qualified and experienced geography teachers who want to ensure outstanding teaching and learning in their classrooms.

Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. No matter what you call them, these formidable, swirling storms are the most devastating events in nature. hurricanes takes young readers on an in-depth exploration of one of the most awe-inspiring phenomena on Earth This dramatic account of hurricanes and the disasters they leave behind, including Andrew and Katrina, are intensified through arresting full-color photographs and satellite images. Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to bring you a new, updated edition of his acclaimed look at this astonishing, and often terrifying, natural disaster.

The story of Maryland's three southern counties is really the story of the beginnings of the state itself. On March 25, 1634, the first European settlers came to the area in hopes of finding religious freedom and economic opportunities. Led by Leonard Calvert, the group landed on an island in the Potomac River and then settled on the mainland.

Counties of Southern Maryland not only describes the early settlement, but also traces the region's history through the end of the twentieth century in the area that now comprises St. Mary's, Calvert, and Charles Counties.

This is the third book in a series about Maryland's counties that is designed for elementary school children studying their state. The authors approach each region of the state by introducing what is common to the counties included: their history, climate, geography, and wildlife. Then they describe the facets of each county that are unique: its establishment, county seat, growth over time, government, major towns, churches and other religious organizations, schools, businesses, agriculture, and places of interest. In short, this is a complete overview of the three counties that will serve fourth graders in their study, and may also fascinate many adults. Clever line drawings by Marcy Dunn Ramsey accompany the "Fun Facts" and "Not-so-fun Facts" that spice up the narrative.

For introductory physical geography courses. Explore Earth's dynamic, changing systems Among the most highly regarded textbooks in physical geography, Robert Christopherson's best-selling Elemental Geosystems retains its unparalleled currency, accuracy, rich integration of climate change science, and dynamic multimedia program. Organized around the natural flow of energy, materials, and information, subjects are presented in the same sequence in which they occur in nature-an organic, holistic approach that is unique in this discipline. The 9th Edition features updated content and new Mastering Geography activities, while also incorporating new visual media, active learning activities, and visual tools to help student engagement and mastery. Also available with Mastering Geography or as an easy-to-use, standalone Pearson eText Mastering (TM) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student. With a variety of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult personal health concepts. Pearson eText allows educators to easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their reading and what they learn in class-motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning. Portable access lets students study on the go, even offline. And, reading analytics offer insight into how students use the eText, helping educators tailor their instruction. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering Geography and Pearson eText do not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Geography or Pearson eText, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering Geography, search for: 0134818369 / 9780134818368 Elemental Geosystems Plus Mastering Geography with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 9/e Package consists of: 0134817443 / 9780134817446 Elemental Geosystems 0134817494 / 9780134817491 Mastering Geography with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Elemental Geosystems If you would like to purchase the standalone Pearson eText, search for: 0135213126 / 9780135213124 Pearson eText Elemental Geosystems -- Access Card OR 013521310X / 9780135213100 Pearson eText Elemental Geosystems -- Instant Access

Published in 1994, this book is the result of the collaborative work undertaken at the Liverpool-based Geography INSET Primary Project (GIPP) over three years. It presents a series of chapters for primary teachers seeking to implement the Statutory Orders for Geography in the National Curriculum. Steering a middle course between the sophistications of a theoretical/methodological text and the over-simplifications of a 'tips-for-teachers' approach, the authors highlight the positive opportunities offered by the National Curriculum. At the same time they are critical of many aspects of the Statutory Orders, without losing sight of their objective to help teachers to improve the quality of primary geography teaching. The book is especially useful for INSET work for teachers who have already grappled with National Curriculum Geography and who will be adjusting to the post-Dearing rearrangements.

The theme of this book is the teaching and learning of the humanities in the primary years. While it dwells on the National Curriculum, it also examines issues of current international concern, drawing upon international research literature.

Teaching Geography Creatively was Winner of the Geographical Association Gold Award 2014 and Winner of the Geographical Association Silver Award 2017. This fully updated second edition of Teaching Geography Creatively is a stimulating source of guidance for busy trainee and experienced teachers. Packed full of practical approaches for bringing the teaching of geography to life, it offers a range of innovative ideas for exploring physical geography, human geography and environmental issues. Underpinned by the very latest research and theory, expert authors from schools and universities explore the inter-relationship between creativity and learning, and consider how creativity can enhance pupils' motivation, self-image and well-being. Two brand new chapters focus on creative approaches to learning about the physical world, as well as the value of alternative learning settings. Further imaginative ideas include: games and starter activities as entry points for creative learning how to keep geography messy the outdoors and learning beyond the classroom how to teach geography using your local area the links between geography and other areas of the curriculum looking at geography, creativity and the future fun and games in geography engaging with the world through picture-books teaching about sustainability. With contemporary, cutting-edge practice at the forefront, Teaching Geography Creatively is an essential read for all trainee and practicing teachers, offering a variety of practical strategies to create a fun and stimulating learning environment. In the process it offers a pedagogy that respects the integrity of children as joyful and imaginative learners and which offers a vision of how geography can contribute to constructing a better and more equitable world.