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I hope you'll find that this section contains some useful advice about teaching geography. If you ever want advice or assistance with your work I'm only to willing to help, as long as you're able to give me a few days in which to reply.
There are a number of resources I have developed (or am in the process of developing) which are not commercially viable or are in a trial (beta) format, these will be made available for your use via this page. I also have a large database of useful articles from the Geographical Magazine and the National Geographic, so if you're searching for information on a country or topic let me know and I'll try and point you in the right direction.
If you have any suggestions about the type of topics
you would like to see covered in these pages tell me and I'll do my best to
provide them. Please send me your own tips and advice and I'll integrate them
into this page, (with due acknowledgement of course).
Don't forget to look in the Curriculum section for materials aimed
at particular courses and ages. You may find some of the reviews
of geography related materials and the list
of geography software useful. There are also links
to a whole variety of different sources of geography information.
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I've been asked about the textbooks and other resources I'd recommend for teaching secondary/high school level geography, this is a brief run down of my suggestions.
For A/IB level students 'Geography An Integrated Approach'
(second edition) by David Waugh - published by Nelson.
For students aged 14/15/16 'The Wider World' by David Waugh - published by
Nelson, (ISBN 0-17-434309-4).
For students aged 11/12/13 there are a number of series of books possibly
the best would be the Longman Geography Series, published by Addison Wesley
Longman. In addition to this 'Basic Map Reading' by Keith Gillard published
by Longman ISBN (0 582 036879), is a very useful book at this level.
If however you have a firm programme of your own at this level and are looking
for a single book to support it then try 'Core Geography' by Keith Grimwade
and Greg Hart, published by Hodder and Stoughton, which has a really excellent
'Teacher's Resource Pack' to accompany it (see the reviews
section for more details).
All students would need an up to date hardback atlas, (softback editions are
cheaper but they fall apart within a year or two thereby costing more money
in the long term).
'National Geographic' available from
National Geographic Society
1145 17th St. N.W.
Washington D.C. 20036-4688
USA
National Geographic web site.
'The Geographical Magazine' available from
Subscriptions
Geographical
PO Box 425
Woking
GU21 1GP
England
Tel: 01483 733881
Fax: 01483 776573
Geographical magazine web site.
Subscription membership of
The Geographical Association
160 Solly Street
Sheffield
S1 4BF
England
Telephone: 0114 296 0088
Fax: 0114 296 7176
Publish excellent magazines such as 'Primary geographer' and 'Teaching Geography'
as part of their membership package.
Geographical Association web site
A catalogue from the best suppliers I've ever come
across would be a useful starting point, they are
MJP Geopacks
92-104 Carnwath Road
London
SW6 3HW
England
Telephone 0990 133168
Fax 020 7371 0473
Email service@geopacks.com
Take a look at the GeoNet software
guide, there's a lot of geography software out there.
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