Great geography lessons can spark in students an appreciation for different cultures, a hunger to travel to faraway places and an understanding of their place in the world as global citizens. The resources featured in This Week are packed with fresh, engaging ways to teach geography.

Designed for primary teachers who are not geography specialists, Connecting with Geography provides practical, adaptable scaffolds to make geography inquiry stimulating and accessible. Drawing on the Australian Curriculum: Geography, this rich source of ideas and strategies for teachers explores philosophies about the nature of geography and effective pedagogical practices. It acts as a catalyst for engaging with the study of geography in ways that are relevant for students, classrooms and school communities. Connecting with Geography will spark debate about the best ways to motivate and challenge students so that they are inspired to question, research and analyse complex issues.

Available in Term 4 – reserve your copy today!

Also available: Connecting with History, Discovering the Environment

Teaching Primary Geography for Australian Schools will help you develop your knowledge, understanding and teaching of early years and primary geography. It discusses the nature of geography, geographical knowledge and understanding, and links to everyday life to help children understand place, geographical concepts and environmental sustainability.

It considers:

• inquiry approaches to teaching and learning geography
• learning outside the classroom through fieldwork
• the geographical skills children need, such as map work and visual skills
• world knowledge and global issues
• citizenship and cross-curricular approaches.

This fantastic resource encourages the development of well-grounded geographical knowledge and understanding in all children through high-quality planning, teaching and learning of geography.

Also available: How to Succeed with Education for Sustainability, Foundation Blocks: Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Bushwhacked! is a fun-fuelled, adrenalin-pumping series that brings the bush to the burbs! Hosts Brandon Walters and Kayne Tremills set off on an adventure to the remote corners of Australia, meeting the country’s weird and wonderful wildlife, and learning about Indigenous rites and rituals.

Brandon sets Kayne a new challenge each episode – to track down a unique Australian animal. But it is as much about the journey as it is about the destination. Along the way, Brandon introduces Kayne to friends from local Indigenous communities who get the boys involved in everything from traditional smoking ceremonies to investigating local bush tucker and bush medicine.

Also available: Activate Your Students (Lower Primary), Activate Your Students (Middle Primary)

The award-winning and much-loved children’s book My Place, written by Nadia Wheatley and illustrated by Donna Rawlins, is now available in a newly revised big book format edition.

An innovative blend of history and imaginative fiction, My Place relates the stories of 20 child characters, one for each decade from 1988 to 1788, who are all living in the same house or on the same land. Each story has a symbolic connection to the land and its sustenance of the people who live there. Through the stories, we imagine what life was like in the different eras.

Also available: My Place TV series 2 and teachers guide, Pet or Pest?