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

MAY 28, 2024

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's shared here without commentary or additional resources, which we've developed to help steer the lesson.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

When students engage with history, geography, and civics, they develop the ability to analyze texts, draw connections between concepts, and retain new information more effectively. The next blog in this series explores how inquiry-based learning fosters reading comprehension and critical thinking.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. Physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and the water cycle. Human geography, including economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

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Living Geography

MAY 18, 2024

As with any major project that I get involved with, or new role, I've started a new blog. When I started out on my GA Presidential journey, I started a blog which now has over 850 posts on it, and includes a biography of every GA President to date as well as much more on the history of the Association and its activities.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 10, 2024

OK, a small milestone reached but we're properly up and running with my special RGS blog as I've just posted my 100th entry since I started it back in May, when I was able to announce my role as Vice President Education. You have some catching up to do if you are new to the blog. Go here to visit the blog.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog - which is now closing in on 400 posts since it was first started - when it looked like we might actually get a new qualification option.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A cross-posting from the blog where I share my involvement with the RGS: it's called 'At the Home of Geography'. Time to book for November. Check it out. The RGS-IBG 'A' level Study Days are always well worth a visit. Fancy a visit to the Society's HQ in London?

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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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Living Geography

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Kate Stockings' blog has some thoughtful and useful content linked to her work as a Trust Lead for Geography, and an avid reader. She has now posted a thoughtful blog on the GA's Response to the recent Call for Evidence for the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 21, 2024

Do check out Master Teacher Kah Mun's post on facilitating the use of dynamic geographical knowledge for 21CC learning in Geography: [link] Maude's typology is a useful tool for identifying specifically how the disciplinary knowledge of geography is powerful. A lot of emphasis had been placed in 1 and 2 in our curriculum.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 14, 2024

I've blogged previously about a series of videos which are being made by Time for Geography in association with Rayburn Tours and Dr. Rhian Meara. They explore the eruption on Heimaey in 1973, which led to the evacuation of the island. There are now two more more available in the series.

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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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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, studies show that exposure to content-rich subjects like history, geography, and science strengthens reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skillsessential components of long-term literacy success.

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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

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

DECEMBER 23, 2024

a week or so (unless something important happens) when I'll have a bit of a break from blogging, and focus on family, reading and thinking. It's that time again. Not sure we will see many landscapes like this over the next week. Winter Lane S. Badmin Source Here's a Christmas playlist to keep you going.

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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

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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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

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

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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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is a cross-posting from my dedicated blog which covers the events linked to my Vice Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. RGS Winter Social Dec 5 on the theme of Geography and the Arts A quick reminder if you haven’t booked that the Eastern area RGS Winter Social event is coming up – on Thursday 5th December.

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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

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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