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Despite being at it for over 20 years now , a lot of people may not be aware of more of the geo(graphical) blogs that I write than this one. 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.
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.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog. I started this when the new specification was first announced. I've been adding posts since, and there are now over 400, so I've got plenty of materials to help write some support resources once a draft specification emerges. Here was the question in Parliament.
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.
A cross posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog - 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.
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.
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. checks notes) everyone teaching GCSE Natural History. Check out the Facebook group too.
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.
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.
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.
It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog , which now has over 300 posts preparing for some possible involvement in resource creation or support. But natural history, you know, garners a lot of interest. Well, not necessarily, because it's not always biology and geography teachers that are naturalists.
I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him. However, as global warming and record hot summers have sped up glacier loss, the melting ice has exposed an unprecedented, huge range of archaeological finds, Reitmaier says sometimes baring thousands of years of history, all at once.
Some of you may know that I have a number of blogs in addition to this one. My GCSE Natural Historyblog 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.
A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Discover the World has made available a new resource. Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has awakened after more than 800 years. Since the first eruption in March 2021, numerous fissures have opened across five locations, heavily affecting the town of Grindavík.
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.
Yesterday, I saw a message on Threads (I've stepped away from Twitter as you know) about delays to the GCSE Natural History being reported on Schoolsweek. I also have a blog which now has over 350 posts , in preparation for teaching and creating resources. I have a very large Google Drive folder already.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.
With everything happening, I decided to take my weekly activities, add a quick description, and let AI handle the blog writing. They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. Between managing the chaos of lesson planning, keeping up with my students, and coaching, it’s been a whirlwind.
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.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog, which has over 300 posts. 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. Textbooks will need to be written and teacher training and resource provisions put in place.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog. A new post on the OCR website from Professor Sylvia Knight. She talks about the connections between the proposed specification and climate literacy.
A cross posting from the blog which covers my work as the Vice President Education of the Royal Geographical Society. As mentioned in a recent blog post, there is an opportunity for you to join the Education Committee in 2025. A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. Put your name forward.
A cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. As you'd imagine, we are preparing to submit evidence and support the consultation for the new curriculum review to discuss what we hope to see in a future curriculum with respect to the geography entitlement and the nature of what is studied. (PDF
A lot of effort has gone into this from the English team, and the geography team will be offering their support. In the Geography department, we are going to be running two Fantasy Mapping workshops. NEW BLOG I have written something! There is usually a theme, and this year, the theme is FANTASY. What are your favourites?
Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g., Details of two new update events have been added to the RGS website. Details here of the first one.
With its own old kingdoms running along its geography. You drive along multiple lines of history when you move through LaRue County! ” The rest is literary history! Nicolay’s and John Hay’s [Lincoln’s private secretaries] history of the President they served 20 years before.
is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. “Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.,
is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. “Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.,
This is a cross posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog, which has just passed 20 000 page views. If you're interested in the potential of the new specification why not pay a visit.
For the first time in the GA's history we have two successive female teacher Presidents. Her entry on my GA Presidents blog is now live. September 1st is the change over day for GA Presidents. Good luck to Hina Robinson for the year ahead.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog. Six Inches of Soil is a new film, which explores the value of this material, which many people undervalue - not understanding its critical importance.
A cross posting from my GCSE Natural Historyblog, which now has over 300 posts in preparation for supporting teachers if and when it appears as an option. Earlier today, this diagram was shared on Twitter, which looks from the formatting to be a panel from a recent copy of the i newspaper.
A cross posting from my GA Presidents blog. This has a biography of every GA President, along with hundreds of other posts on the history of the Association. Utopia on Trial was written by Alice Coleman. The work featured here seems to have been completed by a large, mostly female team of geographers.
This helps me keep this blog running. I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes.
By integrating traditional ethnographic methods with those from classic ethology, geography, and the humanities, I answer novel questions related to the co-production of multispecies conviviality. Essentially, if we want to live in a biodiverse world, we need to reintegrate ourselves.
A cross posting from my new GCSE Natural Historyblog which has now passed three hundred posts in preparation for the arrival of this new specification. Merlin ID is a rather good new free app which is ideal for anyone who wants to know what birds they are listening to. Download the app to begin with.
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural HistoryBlog which has over 300 posts on it already. With some additional content. A nicely illustrated story from The Guardian described a plan to green the rooves of Paris.
It explores how successive periods of history in a city leave some traces of the past, but most of them are hidden, or removed in the process of regeneration. One I was familiar with, and have blogged about before when I did a session for the PTI. certainly interesting. a bit Metropolis inspired.
The city is wonderful to visit for its architecture and history as well as links with other cultural aspects e.g. Mozart. Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license My first read of the year was this book - over on the GeoLibrary blog. What cities do you always look forward to going back to?
To know the publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, is to study French history. But first his publisher, the reason that his “Voyages” began, and also why Paris was not published, when it was first done! Suffice it to succinctly state that he lived in the turbulent times of the French Republic and Second Empire.
A cross posting from my teaching blog: GeographyTeacher2.0 The suite of seven resources will show Windrush as just one, among many other chapters, of British post-WWII history. Visit the Windrush Foundation website for a whole range of free resources for educational use. These are going to be rolled out over the next year.
These remarks can be found on my blog. As Alinsky (1971) notes in Rules for Radicals , “throughout history silences has been regarded as assent – in this case assent to the system” (x).
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