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Finding the Help You Need For Teaching Geography

A Lesson Plan for Teachers

I plan to add in links […] The post Finding the Help You Need For Teaching Geography appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers. Organization to Help You Find What You Need There are so many of you that are classroom teachers short on time (and energy), so I wanted to write a series of posts just for you!

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iGCSE Geography 4th Edition - now available to purchase

Living Geography

It's the 4th edition of a textbook for the newly updated iGCSE Geography specification. Along with this student book - the 4th edition, written for the new Cambridge iGCSE Geography specification, there is also a Teacher's Guide , which contains lesson plans and extra resources, plus answers for all the questions in the book.

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100 ideas for Geography fieldwork

Living Geography

This book covers every aspect of carrying out geography fieldwork, including planning, risk assessments, data collection and evaluation, and is packed with effective low-cost ideas for investigating rivers and coasts, ecosystems and human geography for a range of locations.

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Worldly Wednesday #18: Thinking and writing

Living Geography

They are for iGCSE Geography - the updated Cambridge Specification, and represent the 4th edition of a book which I have been involved with since the 1st series. IGCSE (9-1) and O Level Geography (0460/0976/2217) syllabuses, providing full coverage for examination from 2027. They are now available to pre-order on the Collins website.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. That’s hard.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography. Washington University in St. And so on… .