Basic skills in geography

Basic Skills in Geography

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n Literacy in geography: Key Stage 3 National Strategy document for LEA consultants and subject advisers, published by the Department for Education and Skills.
n Possible links between Geography and Literacy: Appendix 5 of the Department for Education and Skills Geography at key stage 3 Teacher's Guide.
n Humanities and literacy: Stockport Education Service literacy across the curriculum resource. Includes a Year 7 Scheme on the Water Cycle, which breaks down into four policy documents, Geography and the Literacy Strategy, a Geography and Literacy Action Plan, In Reporting to the Geography Department and Benefits of NLS Approach from a Head of Geography Department's Perspective; and a scheme of work comprising Lessons 1-2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4 and Lesson 5.
n Geography & literacy: Derby City Education Service literacy across the curriculum policy.
n Geography and literacy links: Cumbria Lancashire Education Online document which "looks for ways of combining geography objectives with those of literacy.
n Literacy in geography (11-16): SSER Ltd description of a geography crossword and wordsearch resource in CD-ROM and photocopy master formats.
n Teaching literacy in geography in Year 7: New South Wales Department of Education and Training professional support document for teachers of geography.
n Literacy through Geography but not forgetting geography through literacy: "From policies to practice, we want ideas beyond the word wall and beyond the writing frame."
n 6th grade Geography and Literacy: Heidi Chapman's TeacherWeb site with announcements, interdisciplinary issues, homework, links, calendar, class projects and the teacher.
n Using Literature to Teach Geography in High Schools: ERIC Digest of educational resources, including advice how to exploit "The Grapes of Wrath" for geographical education.
n Reading Roadmap: A Colorado project whose goal is to "implement the geography standards in classrooms through children's literature."
n Enhancing Literacy through Geography in Upper Primary Classrooms: Sue Lyle's article in International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Abstracts Volume 9:1, 2000.
n Literacy through Geography: Geography through Literacy: P. Letford's London University Institute of Education MA dissertation, 1999.
n Geography keywords: Portal to vocabulary lists and activities of use in teaching geography.
n Geography word breaks: Word puzzle dedicated to the geography keywords in Harton School's key stage 3 student diary.
n Numeracy in geography: Raises awareness of the contribution of mathematics to geography, using population, scale, coordinates and rainfall as examples.
n Web-based sources of data: Links on the DfES Standards Site to promote numeracy in each of the following subjects: History, Geography, Music, Physical Education, PSHE, Religious Education, Citizenship and Science.
n Geography & numeracy: Derby City Education Service numeracy across the curriculum policy.
n Geography, History and RE and Numeracy: Curriculum links identified by Haywood High School.
n Developing numeracy through geography: article written by G. Davidson and others and published in 1998 in Teaching Geography 23(4), pp. 174-177. "Numeracy is defined as more than knowing about numbers and number operations. It includes an ability and inclination to solve numerical problems... it also demands familiarity with the ways in which numerical information is gathered by counting and measuring, and is presented in graphs, charts and tables".

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