I've spent two separate months as guest blogger at the Hodder Geography Nest. Hodder produce a range of useful materials for geographers.
Hodder have a range of content which they call DYNAMIC LEARNING, and have released a number of free resources, partly for publicity of course, but they also remain really useful materials for teachers to try. They require no login or registration, and provide a taster for the full suite of materials.
The first is a set of materials produced for a book written by my good friend Ollie Bray for a book for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Level 3 exploring 'People and Place'.
I was at the SAGT conference in 2010 when this book picked up a Publishers' award.
The second batch of free materials explores Weather and Climate, including Extreme weather and are from the book 'Geography in a Changing World'.
The third batch from the same book is on the theme of Ecosystems.
The fourth set of materials from a later book in the series is on the theme of Environmental Issues. A key stimulus material in this batch of resources is a poem by Mark Cowan called 'Plastic Soup'. I worked with Mark on a programme that we made for Teachers TV (as was), where we explored Climate Change through a poem written by Mark. This one explores the formation of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Hodder have a range of content which they call DYNAMIC LEARNING, and have released a number of free resources, partly for publicity of course, but they also remain really useful materials for teachers to try. They require no login or registration, and provide a taster for the full suite of materials.
The first is a set of materials produced for a book written by my good friend Ollie Bray for a book for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Level 3 exploring 'People and Place'.
I was at the SAGT conference in 2010 when this book picked up a Publishers' award.
The second batch of free materials explores Weather and Climate, including Extreme weather and are from the book 'Geography in a Changing World'.
The third batch from the same book is on the theme of Ecosystems.
The fourth set of materials from a later book in the series is on the theme of Environmental Issues. A key stimulus material in this batch of resources is a poem by Mark Cowan called 'Plastic Soup'. I worked with Mark on a programme that we made for Teachers TV (as was), where we explored Climate Change through a poem written by Mark. This one explores the formation of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
I like Leek and Potato
Or I’m partial to a Broth
But I’d struggle to digest
A soup of garbage and of froth.
This may well be news to you;
I’m not sure you’ll have heard
About the death of mammals
And of millions of birds.
It all sounds rather shocking:
Who committed such a crime?
Well let’s begin the story
In this Ocean plastic rhyme.
A fifth batch of resources in this free release is from a book to support the teaching of WJEC 'B' Geography at GCSE. The theme is Service Provision.
The final free resource in this release is also about Employment and is designed for Edexcel 'A' at GCSE.
Take a look and let me know what you think....
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