'Identify and evaluate characteristics of good practice in geography' Geography has many meanings, the most widely accepted and known being derived from ancient Greek, interpreted as 'description of the world'. This is exactly what teachers are required to teach children - about our world, our own impacts unto the world, formations of nature, the different cultures and species within our world, how to look at and make use of maps and other geographical images. All …showed first 75 words of 1087 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1087 total…or writing up an investigation in the correct form. Geography is as useful and as interesting as all the other subjects within the national curriculum. It can be taught in a variety of ways, and is essential if the child is to have an extensive knowledge on our world to apply to other subjects (science, history, art, R.E, mathematics and english). Geography IS biology, astrology, physics, geology, philosophy, religion, history, politics, anthropology and sociology.