Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The new Living England 2022-23 habitat map is now live! Download freely from [link] (coming soon on Magic). It’s more reliable & user-friendly than ever - providing essential habitat data for natural capital monitoring across England.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2024

I've been involved in the creation of the Oak National Primary Geography resources for KS1 and 2. GA Chief Executive, Steve Brace, said: “The GA is delighted to have been selected to provide the KS3 Geography programme for Oak Academy. Again via the GA Newsletter. These are emerging over on the Oak site.

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Living Geography

APRIL 5, 2024

Thanks to my colleague Andy Marshall for sending me a picture of this shirt: apparently the Partick Thistle 3rd shirt for the 2023-24 season.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin have reported bilingual teacher shortages during the 2023-24 academic year, according to federal data. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators. In seven states, the need for bilingual education teachers is especially dire.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. 69% of 8993 teachers responding to a 2023 @TeacherTapp survey were first generation university attenders (Teacher Tapp Results, 13.08.2023).

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O-Level Geography

MARCH 23, 2024

How does Singapore adapt to climate chang Notable weather events in Singapore in 2023. What is extreme weather? Why is there an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather? Singapore's top 10 warmest and wettest years. Graphic: TODAY/Samuel Woo) [link]

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O-Level Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

magnitude earthquake that struck the High Atlas Mountains late on Sep 8 2023 killed 2,946 people and injured 5,674 , making it Morocco's deadliest since 1960 and most powerful since1900. Source: [link] Where is the epicentre of the earthquake? When did the earthquake hit Morocco? What cause the earthquake to occur?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

She used to be a geography teacher herself before returning to higher education to pursue a doctorate degree. From February 2023, she started a Mapping Inspirational Women initiative as open educational resources for re-telling women's stories in maps, blogs, tweets and podcasts.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 6, 2025

Greenly estimates that TikTok's 2023 emissions across the UK, the US and France were around 7.6m Meanwhile, Greeces carbon emissions for 2023 were 51.7m TikTok consumes vast amounts of energy to power the servers in its data centres, which enable users to upload and watch videos on the app. metric tonnes of CO2e.

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Living Geography

MAY 11, 2024

The latest World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau has been released. Download for the latest data to keep your case studies up to date.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It says that climate change and sustainability must become embedded across the curriculum for all children up to age 18, and not just be restricted to science and geography. The lead signatory is someone very well known to the geography community: Nicola Walshe. She said: History and English have a role, as do all other humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School.

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Geography Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In October 2023, Azerbaijan militarily took over the region prompting many ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh has had ethnic, political, and cultural strife ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. Since 1994, this was the event that Armenia was trying to prevent, but couldn’t.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This week, the AQA exam board has published booklets for teachers of their Science, Geography, Maths, Religious Studies, Citizenship. The Geography one is 2Mb download, and is 14pp long. The booklets are available on this link. It shows how key ideas are connected to climate change and this can be referenced throughout the teaching.

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Living Geography

APRIL 13, 2025

Their Impact Report 2023 provides a lot more detail on the company and their operations. There are a few in the NW as well but they are mostly in the SE of England and London, and across into the Midlands. There's a definite clustering going on. May be of interest to someone as an NEA topic.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This post from 2023 looks at the impact of a winter storm. At first glance it shows the percentages of energy sources in countries. Down the right hand side of the map are various settings which can be tweaked to add extra functionality to the map. There is a blog as well. This shows the value of such mapping.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Two women, a former professor and a former nurse who earned a legal degree, are raising money to open a full-scale higher education institution in Seattle by the fall of 2023 called Wright University, which they say will employ and enroll people “historically excluded by academia” and have courses in 29 undergraduate and graduate disciplines.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From the GA website: This programme, designed specially for students aged 14–18, will enthuse them about geography and its wide-ranging applications, enable them to think beyond school toward university and possible careers in geography. The students will also attend the Keynote on Saturday. Attending @The_GA conference?

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Living Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

Waste Water According to the Environment Agencys data for 2023 , sewage overflows released untreated sewage for total duration of 3.6 Note that, the simple hydrological model may produce 'unexpected' results in some areas, for instance in lakes or where rivers are tidal very far in-land. million hours.

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Dr. Preece

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As Storm Babet brings challenging circumstances and significant negative impacts – including tragic loss of life – to the UK in mid-October, it’s an opportunity for teachers to do a bit of ‘live Geography’ and explore some impacts and approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. RootEd took the model to 13 rural Texas high schools this fall and plans to expand to 30 by 2023). To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby’s next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The tree has stood for hundreds of years, perfectly framed by the landscape, thrilling locals and visitors alike until it was deliberately cut down, under cover of darkness, sometime between the evening of 27 September 2023 and the following morning. The loss of the tree has caused an outcry and reaction of public grief.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reading groups, library and computer time, literature, science, math, geography, art, and even holidays can all help our students learn about human society. Her perspective on Social Studies taught me that it is not an isolated area of study but exists in everything we teach. Every subject, discipline, and activity teaches Social Studies.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Project Title: Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project Moira Lynch, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Dr. Moira Lynch (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor in the department of politics, geography and international studies at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Read about the funded projects.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 13, 2023

Decided to carry out an inquiry-based learning on Geographical Methods under the topic Geography in Everyday Life in the new Upper Sec Geography syllabus. Another's class analysis on the bite sized fieldwork 22 Mar 2023. We had always been using the inquiry-based learning in our Geographical Investigation.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

2025 Annual Meeting kskordal Mon, 09/25/2023 - 10:22 Update 2/5/24: 2025 Annual Meeting: SCS Abstract and Proposal Submission System is Open We are pleased to announce that the SCS Abstract and Proposal submission system is now open and can be found via the link below: [link] Upon accessing the submission system, please read in their entirety the instructions (..)

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. According to this theory, the brain naturally takes a casual approach to digital texts and devotes less mental work to reading and understanding them thoroughly.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. This was December.

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Dr. Preece

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As Geographers, we want to support great scholarship and geography, and invite our students to share their experiences and perspectives on the world. The ethos of the journal is volunteer-led, with a team who aim to provide a supportive and enjoyable experience for Geography students.

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Living Geography

JULY 27, 2024

The blog I set up in January 2023 to prepare for the (hopefully before not too long) introduction of the GCSE Natural History has just passed a small milestone of 25000 page views.

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O-Level Geography

JULY 22, 2024

Why has overall recycling rate fallen from 62 per cent in 2013 to 52 per cent in 2023? Why is there a need to reduce the waste sent to the landfill each day by 30 per cent by 2030 under the Zero Waste Masterplan?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Dr. Preece

JULY 29, 2023

Great resource for Departments, mentors, ITE/ECT providers to upskill teachers on climate change education – not just in Geography! There’s a significant update as of June 2023, with new options, features and land modelling. They may also want to consolidate in other areas (e.g. Now, it’s got better.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2024

Feel free to leave comments on our YouTube [link] pic.twitter.com/gRAHmDrpGA — Six Inches of Soil (@sixinchessoil) November 16, 2023 Here's the original quote which inspired the title of the film: “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.” We hope you love it as much as we do.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 3, 2024

At the start of summer 2023 I had the very great pleasure of seeing Peter Gabriel playing live, over 36 years after I saw him for the first time, touring his 'So' album. I wore the t-shirt I bought back then (it still fits fine). Even though I've been doing the job since the 1980s, I still feel the need to create new things and take risks.

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