Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

I was contacted by Teaching Times who were interested in the session I had planned for the GA Conference 2024 on 'Everyday Geographies', which was called 'Wake up, smell the geography'. Cross-posting from my teaching blog. I turned it into a piece which fitted their structure and it has now been published on their website.

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Living Geography

JUNE 9, 2024

Information from GA website: Teaching Geography is the GA’s professional journal for secondary school geography teachers and is published three times per year. Board members are geography teachers, leaders and those involved in initial geography teacher education at a variety of stages of their career.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Financial Times had a range of interesting articles this weekend, but one in particular was relevant for Geography. Henry Mance looks at the AMOC: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance for @FinancialTimes : [link] Prof Michael E.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly. Just about any student can decode the words “Berlin Wall,” but they need a knowledge of basic geography (where is Berlin?),

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

DfE Climate Literacy: a Guardian article. There's a quote from Australia too: Amelia Pearson, at the Monash climate change communication research hub, says there have been more climate change dot points added to the curriculum, but mainly in subjects such as science and geography.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. Read the article by Lambert, Solem and Tani here. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. She mentions the assessment as being based on coursework and fieldwork - I think that is very unlikely.

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Living Geography

APRIL 9, 2024

This was awarded an RGS-IBG Innovative Geography Teaching Grant in 2003-4. I also wrote an article for Teaching Geography about the project, which was published in the Autumn 2004 issue. I had a blog for my Presidential year called Quotidian Geographies, and there are over 500 books in my GeoLibrary.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And so on… .

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Living Geography

MARCH 6, 2024

A new article in the TES from Steve Brace. It explores the persistence of some topics in the school curriculum, instead of exploring some of the newer curriculum thinking and relevant topics for an age of climate breakdown.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. And that’s when I came across an article that completely changed my approach to Jamestown. The students were tasked with highlighting three weird facts and one crazy quote from the article.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A new article has been published (open access) exploring the connections between curriculum thinking and teacher agency.

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Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

As many readers of the blog over the years will be well aware, I already have quite a few little 'projects' to refresh this zest and ensure that I keep supporting other colleagues, both experienced and those new to the profession. I've decided to call these my Worldly Wednesdays.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. In an analogous example to those given in the article, Mexicans are very proud of their cuisine, but must remember that nothing is created in cultural or geographic isolation.

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Living Geography

MARCH 11, 2025

The front page of The Guardian today featured an article on the impact of microplastics on food production. As the article says: The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesise, according to a new assessment. And it's not good news.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Also, if you’re interested in how AI can be used effectively in education, check out an article I contributed to in EdWeek: Can AI Be Used Effectively in Class? They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration.

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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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Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. Some years ago, I wrote a book about tzi the Ice Man. I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The effect is already affecting Australia, as can be seen in this article here, which suggested a few other industries to benefit, including tattoo artists. There are lots of ideas in its contents to use as a stand alone look at cultural geography. This links with our Year 8 work on Consumption and the geography of our stuff.

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Living Geography

JULY 8, 2024

Q for #geographyteacher What textbooks do you use or refer to in teaching geography? And as this article shows, we are in big trouble. I am asking this for my postdoc at @StirUni title Help me by answer it or tag someone — hermione (she/they) (@hermionemiao) July 6, 2024 What textbooks do you use?

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The geography of video games is an area which has received attention from geography researchers over the years. There are also some additional elements to add accuracy, including the representations of weather according to this article. Last year some 3.2bn people played video games, about four in ten people worldwide.

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Living Geography

APRIL 22, 2024

I referenced a few things that might be helpful: - an article I wrote for Primary Geography talking about our work in KS2 - Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics work - including work in Amsterdam - RMetS Heatwaves resource for KS2 - my KS2 blog - As it was taking place on Earth Day , the general theme was Sustainability.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given recent scholarship underscoring the importance of geography as a dimension of identity, we argue that local legislators should behave as descriptive representatives. Read the full article. American Political Science Review The post Do Local Roots Impact Washington Behaviors? District Connections and Representation in the U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Her article , published earlier this month, digs into how the school’s backers hope it will lead to the next frontier in the school choice movement. Emma Green, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has been spending time visiting these VR classrooms and researching the company for the magazine.

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Living Geography

APRIL 27, 2024

As part of a current writing project I am exploring some of the indigenous knowledge that we may look to introduce into the geography curriculum. This article explores how it is being used to create games to teach people about the importance of this indigenous knowledge. It's time to move away from Eurocentric knowledge.

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Living Geography

APRIL 20, 2024

Along with the meteorology topic I also taught: Rossby Waves, Ekman Spirals and all, this was proper rigorous 'A' level geography, almost all of which has been lost in present specifications. This New Scientist article confirms that this is happening rather earlier than 2100 or 'at some point'. Like right now. in my lifetime.

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Living Geography

MARCH 4, 2025

A Conversation article on Mina Hubbard and other female explorers who seldom get the same coverage as their male counterparts. Indeed, the treatment of Hubbard in the press was very misogynstic and played down her accomplishments.

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Geography Education

APRIL 13, 2023

This article nicely outlined the economic and geographic appeal of Singapore that has made it an economic powerhouse. TAGS: Singapore , economic , SouthEast Asia.

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Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2024

We represent the extremes in our family and the linked article above explores how geographers and psychologists think about the differences in navigational abilities. GPS technologies serve both as great tools and crutches that limit some to expand their spatial skill set.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 31, 2025

We wrote an article about why water companies need to be more transparent with environmental models and data in The Conversation. About the Data The data is collected through Event Duration Monitoring by individual water companies, providing near-real time data on storm overflows.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 6, 2025

Text taken from a Daily Mail article - the Telegraph also had similar views. The terms of reference for the overhaul of England's curriculum say it must reflect the 'diversities of our society'.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A recent article in The Economist looks at the development that has taken place north of King's Cross. If you come out of the station and turn right you can make your way up towards Coal Drops Yard and the new location for Central St. Martins - where my wife studied when it was in its 'proper' location on Long Acre.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This article was co-authored with Catherine Walker and Nerida Jolley. You can read the introduction here, and then continue with the rest of the article, for free, via the University of Manchester’s website here. Up until 2022, when version 9.0

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Living Geography

MARCH 20, 2025

This BBC article explains that plastic is being washed up on the beaches of North Norfolk, close to where I used to live. Last week there was a collision between two ships off the East Yorkshire coast near Withernsea - the place where I first stepped into a classroom as a teacher during my PGCE a long time ago.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Their goal is to create a sentence that they may possibly find in the upcoming article. After the sentences are posted to the digital whiteboard, articles can be read in a whole group or independently. Once the selection has been read, students will identify sentences from the activity that accurately represent the article.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.” Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Download a PDF of the article here.) Got a strange map?

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