Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Geography

The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.

This book is a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary geography lessons that will inspire your class and extend their knowledge in lively and effective ways. Updates include:

• Biodiversity
• Climate change
• Diverse and up-to-date case studies and resources, from Jamaican landscapes in KS1 to the Turkey-Syria earthquake for KS2

Fully updated and in line with National Curriculum guidelines for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, the book provides easy-to-follow lesson plan ideas that are packed full of guidance and activities. It includes helpful summaries, interesting facts, key vocabulary, useful websites, and cross-curricular links.

If you are a primary practitioner or a subject co-ordinator who wants to plan and deliver an engaging and informed programme in your classroom or across your whole school, this book is for you!

Awarded silver in the Geographical Association Publishing Awards 2025