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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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New RGS Oceans resources

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. This module looks at how humans interact with the sea using aquariums as the lens in which to see them. Physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and the water cycle. Understand geographical similarities and differences.

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#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power Of Geography Voice)

Geogramblings

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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RGS East of England Winter Social - 5th December 2024

Living Geography

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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New Discover the World Iceland image gallery

Living Geography

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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Simulation Games for Your Ancient Civilizations Class

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Keep scrolling to check out each of the following simulations: Early Humans Survival Simulation, Persian Empire Simulation, Nile River Simulation, Mohenjo Daro Simulation, Silk Road Simulation, Ancient Greece Panhellenic Games Simulation, Roman Empire Archaeological Simulation, and Knighthood Simulation!

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. And so on… . government as well.