Here is a series of online and printed references dedicated to the use of thinking skills in the teaching of Geography. A short description accompanies each entry.

• Using thinking skills in Geography: Gifted and talented students. National Curriculum online Geography site. 'By using thinking skills, pupils can focus on "knowing how" as well as "knowing what" - learning about the learning process (metacognition).'
• Thinking Skills in Geography: 11-18 students. Advice in the Slemish College (Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) Geography Department Handbook.
• Curriculum Geography: Developing Children's Thinking Skills in History and Geography: St. Patrick's College Drumcondra page with downloadable examples of cards sorts and mysteries and dilemmas.
• Chris Cox's Chalk or Talk: How can we manage the Grand Canyon? Thinking Skills Project for Geography at Henry Compton School.
• Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography: Martha B. Sharma and Gary S. Elbow, Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 2000. 184 pages LC 99-088459. ISBN 0-313-30899-3. GR0899 $44.95 (Reference Book).
• Thinking through Geography: 2nd edition of David Leat's publication.
• Thinking through Geography: These pages 'reveal a series of exercises that are based on the work of David Leat. The exercises are for use with the DfEE Geography KS3 scheme of work and originated as a result of collaboration between the teachers of the South Birmingham 'Excellence in Cities' - G&T group.'
• More thinking through Geography: 'The follow up to the highly acclaimed Thinking Through Geography', edited by Adam Nichols & David Kinninment.
• School produced resources - Geography: Pages containing schemes of work, lesson plans, resources and examples of pupils' work. For Geography these have been collated by participating teachers during phase B of the On The Line /DCS Thinking Skills project.
• Thinking Skills Activities for Geography: Tasks and links.
• Thinking Skills: Geography and Sustainable Development
• Freseman, R. D. (1990) Improving higher order thinking of middle school Geography students by teaching skills directly, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Nova University. (ED 320 842). Examines the outcomes produced by a geography curriculum that included direct instruction in visualizing, prioritizing, summarizing, making inferences through drawing analogies, and problem solving using divergent thinking. Effects on the achievement and self-concepts of participating seventh graders were generally positive, though below predicted levels in some areas.
• Foskett, N. (2000) ' Fieldwork and the development of thinking skills', Teaching Geography, 25, No. 3, pp. 126-129.
• Bright, N (1999) The Implementation of a Curricular Development: Thinking Skills in Geography, MA Dissertation, London University Institute of Education.

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