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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. If these efforts arent allowed to elbow sound reading instruction aside, they cannot hurt and, in the long run, they might even help, he wrote in a 2021 blog post.

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Half a million page views

Living Geography

Another of my blogs has reached a nice milestone in terms of page views.

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Becoming Led Zeppelin

Living Geography

Cross-posting from my Cultural Geography and Geography on / in Film blogs. I saw this film a few weeks' ago and it's well worth seeing for those who like their music. It's based around interviews with the three surviving members and taped interviews with John Bonham.

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Feedspot Top 40 Blog

Living Geography

Apparently LivingGeography is one of Feedspot's Top 40 Geography blogs , along with my Cultural Geography blog. There's one blog included where the most recent post is dated in 2018 - naming no names ;) I'm not sure how they work these things out.

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Fish and Chips resource

Living Geography

A cross posting from my Geography Teaching blog. I've developed this activity for Year 7, as part of our unit on food geographies called 'Food for Thought'. It explores the rising price of food by focussing on one meal - a classic of UK food culture.

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Will Fry: Changing Places Substack

Living Geography

There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. This places you right in the middle of the district, but is quiet and sound-proofed and once you step through the doors, the hubbub and activity of Brick Lane is gone. I'll mention them over there.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could play Fantasy Geography.