Sunday, July 19, 2009

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".

Friday, February 20, 2009

Glaciation - a poem

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

Monday, February 16, 2009

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...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Success....What does it mean to you?




A poem about success....what does 'success' mean to you?
Used this in a recent assembly with students gearing up to exams...

Friday, November 14, 2008

A big thank you...





A big thank you to all those people who have bought the book so far, and particularly those people who have taken the time to give me such positive feedback. It really is appreciated. As a point of note, the book can be now bought via Amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Geography-Classroom-Mark-Cowan/dp/1905637640, and Geographical Association members can receive 15% of the price of the book. Details of how this can be done are found here...