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

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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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 15, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 23, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. A new post on the OCR website from Professor Sylvia Knight. She talks about the connections between the proposed specification and climate literacy.

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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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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, 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.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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?

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

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

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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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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. This blog post explores the critical role of social studies in shaping engaged, informed citizens and how the C3 Framework helps elevate the rigor of social studies education.

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Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

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.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 20, 2024

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.,

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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.,

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Living Geography

MAY 16, 2024

This is a cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has just passed 20 000 page views. If you're interested in the potential of the new specification why not pay a visit.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Six Inches of Soil is a new film, which explores the value of this material, which many people undervalue - not understanding its critical importance.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

MAY 28, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, 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.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

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.

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Living Geography

JULY 16, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

MAY 6, 2024

A cross posting from my new GCSE Natural History blog 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.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 24, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog. Solastalgia was mentioned in the Guardian last year in a piece by Damien Gayle.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 15, 2024

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?

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Living Geography

JANUARY 14, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog 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.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 6, 2024

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.

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Life and Landscapes

APRIL 11, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Riversong is here, and free for anyone to use. Hello: this is 'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

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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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 2, 2025

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.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new blog post that I'd written for the GA's blog went live. This blog has been around for a few years. I wrote the first post back in 2022 when it launched, and added a post a year after the GCSE Natural History was given approval, when it seemed more like it might actually happen.

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