Secondary Starters and Plenaries: Geography: Ready-to-use activities for teaching geography (Classroom Starters and Plenaries) - Softcover

Looking for time-saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round-off your lessons? Look no further! Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and this highly practical book provides busy geography teachers with a wealth of stimulating activities to use in the classroom. The starters will help ensure the first ten minutes of any secondary geography lesson are motivating, energising and engaging for pupils, and the plenaries will help them to reflect on and embed their learning as the lesson draws to a close. Rich pupil stimuli, step-by-step instructions. teacher's tips and extension exercises will help you to create outstanding learning opportunities across diverse areas of the geography curriculum, including both the human and physical domains. The book is accompanied by additional online resources giving you everything you need to plan and deliver high quality starters and plenaries in geography. It is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit.

Brin Best is a former geography teacher and head of department. He is now an education consultant, award-winning author and trainer. He is currently based in Otley, West Yorkshire. Steve Padget is a freelance consultant, teacher trainer and writer specialising in creative thinking and learning. With a background in secondary geography teaching Steve's interests lie in promoting and supporting the vital relationship between language, thinking and learning in the classroom and the critical role of teachers in this process.