{"product_id":"powerful-primary-geography-9781138226517","title":"Powerful Primary Geography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePowerful Primary Geography: A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning explores the need for children to understand the modern world and their place in it. Dedicated to helping teachers inspire children's love of place, nature and geographical adventures through facilitating children's voice and developing their agency, this book explores the way playful opportunities can be created for children to learn how to think geographically, to solve real-life problems and to apply their learning in meaningful ways to the world around them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the very latest research, \u003ci\u003ePowerful Primary Geography \u003c\/i\u003ehelps children understand change, conflict and contemporary issues influencing their current and future lives and covers topics such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Weather and climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sustainability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Engaging in their local and global community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Graphicacy, map work and visual literacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Understanding geography through the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding several case studies from\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is a book which is excellent on many different levels. It sets out a broad vision of geography as a learning journey which will take today’s pupils to the final decades of the present century. The text is well structured and underpinned by a clear sense of values and purpose.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Dr Stephen Scoffham\u003cem\u003e, Teaching Geography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I look forward immensely to using this book. Anne Dolan and all the schools ho contributed to this wonderful book are to be commended for their vision, commitment and hope to make teaching geography personal, political, and powerful.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Paula Galvin, \u003cem\u003eINTOUCH\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book stands as a ground-breaking contribution to the teaching, learning and researching of primary geography education. It aids educators to reflect critically on their own practices, current global and local issues, and how these can be addressed meaningfully in their future educational practices. It should make for essential reading for all interested in geography education, climate change education, sustainability education and in education which positions children’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003es agency and action to the forefront more broadly.\" -\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Usher, \u003cem\u003eIrish Educational Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePowerful primary geography: Setting the scene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePowerful geographical thinking: Initiating investigations and enquiry-based learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaching powerful geography through place \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlayful approaches to powerful geography: Games, artefacts and fun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaching geography powerfully through topics: Weather and climate change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaching powerful geography through graphicacy, map work and visual literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaching powerful geography through the arts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePowerful geography: Teaching citizenship, global learning and the Sustainable Development Goals \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAppendix 1: Card-sorting activity for teaching about volcanoes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAppendix 2: Weather glossary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019467096407,"sku":"9781138226517","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138226517.jpg?v=1750780361","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/powerful-primary-geography-9781138226517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}