Teaching Geography (Spring 2010) says...

This is a great little book, full of poems designed for use in geography lessons...The poems are easy to read and very accessible.

The book is very reasonably priced, and would be a fantastic resource to use as a starter or plenary, to inspire, engage and hook students into topics (Teaching Geography, Spring 2010).


On a different note, here is my take on the recent oil spill:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34501567/Oil

Fair Trade Fortnight Poem

With Fairtrade fortnight approaching, I thought I'd look to raise awareness amongst my own students about the importance of fair trade...

Fair Trade Fortnight Poem

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Just what is this about?

Who am I?

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To commerorate the moon landings...

How did it feel, Neil?

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The Teacher (NUT) magazine review of Poems for the Geography classroom

Poems for the Geography classroom, as featured in the NUT's Teacher magazine for June 2009:

"This book is a great way to bring cross curricular links into Geography. It contains a set of poems matched to the curriculum...and is ideal for the introduction of plenary session of a lesson to help to illustrate a theme linguistically".

Glaciation - a poem

Glaciation - a topic which splits opinion - wonderful or utterly boring? Personally, I rather like it. Here's my take on things...

We're just misunderstood...

Done in a tongue in cheek way, but with a serious message too. Perhaps useful for an assembly. I've used it with my Year 11 students...