Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my At the Home of Geography blog.

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Living Geography

MAY 26, 2024

The GERECO blog occasionally comes to life with a new post, and this last week saw a new addition. GERECO is the Geography Education Research Collective. This is worth a look.

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Geogramblings

APRIL 5, 2023

Each year since 2021, the Decolonising Geography group put together a pick of sessions at the Geographical Association Annual Conference, which have the potential to progress the geography teaching profession the most, with a healthy focus on decolonising education. DOWNLOAD THE LOG SHEET Check out the Decolonising Geography website !

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Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Don't forget to visit my other blog that is getting a little bit of personal attention at the moment. This has involved me in a range of activity, and I am blogging it all over the next four years over on the new blog. In June this year I was announced as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I've been reading the recent posts on Professor Oli Mould's blog tacity. It's always good to see other people using blogging as a way of sharing work, ideas and thinking out loud. Professor Oli Mould teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fiona Sheriff has written a good blog for the GA Blog on her thinking around curriculum and schemes of work. This is worth a read. Fiona was a fellow Fawcett Fellow.

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Living Geography

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2008, I was awarded their Ordnance Survey Award for excellence in Secondary Geography Teaching. Between 2008 and 2011 I worked closely with the RGS - particularly Steve Brace - who is now the GA Chief Executive of course, and Claire Wheeler (now Claire Brown) along with the rest of their APG team as part of the Action Plan for Geography.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I posted recently about reaching a milestone on my GA Presidents' blog , and have now passed another small milestone on one of my other blogs. This one is the blog that I set up in 2010 when my first solo book was published. As was (and still is) my liking for a pun, I titled it 'Look at it this way.' Why not take a look?

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not be noticed by those of us who teach history. Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World History, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, and its geography, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more. In addition to the Black Death, I looked at ancient Greece.

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Education to the Core

JANUARY 26, 2023

Geography lessons let your students travel the world without ever having to leave the classroom. You can take […] The post 5 Activities that Make Geography Fun appeared first on Education to the Core. When you think about it… that’s a lot of really content-heavy stuff.

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Education to the Core

JANUARY 26, 2023

Geography lessons let your students travel the world without ever having to leave the classroom. You can take […] The post 5 Activities that Make Geography Fun appeared first on Education to the Core. When you think about it… that’s a lot of really content-heavy stuff.

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Living Geography

MARCH 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GA Presidents blog. Steve is already well known to the geography education community having previously been Head of Education and Outdoor Learning at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS (with IBG)). An important announcement from the GA today.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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. And so on… .

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 27, 2024

I've reached a significant milestone on my GA Presidents blog. Thanks to all those who have been visiting and reading in the last five years.

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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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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.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

They will choose where they will live along the Nile River, set up a farm, trade their goods, and learn about the geography of the Nile River through different scenarios! If you are looking for other resources and teaching ideas for Ancient Civilizations, check out this blog post about setting up an Ancient Civilizations Word Wall!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Click here to revisit my first blog in this series on using the “I see, I think, I wonder” routine. Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

This led into him asking questions about plants, animals, geology, and geography. As we are all learning how to navigate home-based learning, consider sharing your story and be part of a new Digital Promise blog series on the powerful learning that’s happening across the country. We then made planets out of clay.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A cross-posting from my new(ish) RGS-IBG blog on the Curriculum and Assessment review's Call for Evidence. In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Place-based understanding is important.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We also heard about how Rayburn have teamed up with the Time for Geography gang. This is a reminder that I have a dedicated blog for Iceland called Fieldnotes from Iceland. You can also see links to a few more of my blogs down the right hand side.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A cross-posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog which covers my work as Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society. I have already blogged about the first one - which features work on the Doreen Massey archive. I have already blogged about the first one - which features work on the Doreen Massey archive.

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Dr. Preece

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Contribution to a book chapter on scaffolding with Alex Fairlamb & Rachel Ball In most specifications, the opportunities for extended essay writing are not really present in GCSE Geography for most students. As a former examiner, whilst a few really … Continue reading →

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Living Geography

APRIL 15, 2024

Paul Berry is currently part way through a series of posts on AI over on his Devon Geography blog. Pi is an AI tool. Visit here. Give it a go and see what you think.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

Cross-posting from my teaching blog. 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'. I turned it into a piece which fitted their structure and it has now been published on their website.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

Using Edthena Video Coaching, candidates across the state, usually separated by geography and differences in unique school contexts, were able to step into each other’s classrooms virtually. Check out our blog post: 12 Questions to Ask When Reflecting on Culturally Responsive Teaching Video analysis was key for the UAS program.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Some of you may know that I have a number of blogs in addition to this one. My GCSE Natural History blog was started over a year ago. Earlier this week it passed 10 000 page views, which is a nice little milestone (although I've occasionally had that many views in a day on this blog). Feel free to take a look.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. Details of the event are on a recent blog post, or by following the link here. You will see on another blog post that Samantha Harvey's book 'Orbital' was successful. I didn't have anywhere to head off to today so it was a day at home for a change.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 27, 2024

A cross posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. Are you planning a fieldtrip in 2025? The Frederick Soddy Schools Award offers grants of up to £600 to help primary and secondary students get into the field. And here's a picture of some fieldwork I took part in earlier this week.

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Living Geography

MARCH 3, 2024

More on my Geography on Film blog. There was a nice introduction from a staff member, and the film was excellent. As always, the landscape of Arrakis (Dune) was one of the most important elements.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A cross-posting from my GeoLibrary blog which has hundreds of books recommended and with some information about where they might be used, and why they deserve a shelf on the GeoLibrary. It's a fiction book, but is packed with geography. There are some truly wonderful passages, and it's definitely a geography book.

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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 - Here's the presentation that I used.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog : 'At the Home of Geography' - bookmark it now and visit it regularly. Details: Join us for a dynamic and interactive evening celebrating the intersection of art and geography, where creativity meets exploration. I am going to be attending this event as part of the RGS's EXPLORE festival.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Via my At the Home of Geography blog. Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation over the difference that geography makes.

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