TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally prioritized English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often sidelining social studies. 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.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

This post explores the barriers to incorporating social studies and science in elementary education and provides actionable strategies to ensure these essential subjects receive the time and attention they deserve.

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Living Geography

APRIL 25, 2025

A new free resource shared by Discover the World Education. With ready-made classroom materials and engaging discussion prompts, this human geography resource is ideal for unpacking development, inequality, and wellbeing through the lens of some of the world's happiest nations. Details from DtW.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When I have worked with teachers before, they have A useful quote from the article, referencing the work of Margaret Roberts: Combining and relating different types of knowledge, such as conceptual and theoretical knowledge with substantive, experiential and indigenous knowledges canlead to a powerful geographical education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students. Importantly, these companies are pursuing equitable access to their products and content, regardless of identity, geography, race, religion, socioeconomic background, etc.

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Dr. Preece

APRIL 20, 2024

But I thought I’d share some reflections and learning – and now that the session downloads are starting to come through, I’ve got time to explore some of the sessions I didn’t get to. Clearly, there’s elements of both – a dialogue between Conference and the rest of the community and wider school geography.

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Living Geography

MARCH 19, 2025

The following text is from the DfE Press release accompanying the downloads. Over 7,000 responses were submitted to the review team as part of an extensive engagement programme, including young people and parents, educators and experts as well as employers and wider organisations with an interest in what is taught in our schools.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Thanks to Sylvia Knight , Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society, via LinkedIn for telling me about some work being shared by the awarding body AQA. This week, the AQA exam board has published booklets for teachers of their Science, Geography, Maths, Religious Studies, Citizenship.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The GA and RGS(IBG) were awarded funding for a joint initiative called the Action Plan for Geography (2006-2011) whose Young Peoples Geographies project involved CEO Ian as a participating academic [see the project website archive on the Wayback Machine here ]. If you havent had a look at Follow the Things before, check it out.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. This follows my work as Vice President: Education of the RGS. A review of the 11-16 Curriculum and Assessment , chaired by former Education Secretary Charles Clarke. PDF download) Written by Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR. Report is here.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 11, 2024

A new Climate Change and Sustainability Education report from the CCCSE at UCL. Today we launch our report Climate Change & Sustainability Education: A survey of students in England. There will be fewer of these Twitter links from now on, as I explained in a recent tweet.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Whether it’s used for homework-assignment web searches, streamed video tutorials, educational apps or collaborative multimedia projects, fast internet at home is rapidly turning into a necessity for America’s students. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! There is also a downloadable curriculum guide, tying together learning topics from U.S. & & Arkansas History, Economics, & Geography. The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. This mission is carried out through activities in four areas: Interpretive exhibits, public presentations, educational programming and documentation.

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Living Geography

JUNE 15, 2024

The map below was actually generated by Adobe Creative Cloud / Firefly for Education, which I have access to via school. Quite a few people have shared how they use prompts to elicit certain outcomes from LLMs in a geography context. Adding a Structure Reference and regenerating created this output. It includes some useful ideas.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

APRIL 25, 2013

Most of my students have a very limited background knowledge with geography. It is easy to get kids REALLY excited about geography. Then, introduce the idea of piracy and have students share how they would feel if someone downloaded their book without paying for it. I’ve learned two things doing this: 1.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 27, 2021

Within each episode, you will find resources that could complement your lessons: Short video explaining and exemplifying the question with Singapore examples Downloadable activity sheets to engage students in school or at home Downloadable educator guides which include discussion questions for the videos and how to conduct the activity sheets Pop quizzes (..)

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Living Geography

JANUARY 14, 2024

Visit the Windrush Foundation website for a whole range of free resources for educational use. Windrush Foundation’s seminal education resources will help educators to teach the facts about Windrush and will explain its true meaning. I have downloaded the free eBooks. These are going to be rolled out over the next year.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 15, 2015

You can download a free geography BINGO game here. The post Social Studies and Science Vocabulary appeared first on Ashleigh's Education Journey. I give each student a BINGO board and call out one question at a time. Guess It One of my students’ favorite games of all time is Guess It, which is similar to Headbandz.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 11, 2015

Download a free geography BINGO game here. Magnet Stations Force and Motion Stations Geography Stations Occasionally, rather than completing station activities we complete whole group experiments or activities. The post Teaching Elementary Science and Social Studies appeared first on Ashleigh's Education Journey.

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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. 2, 1980, pp.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I cannot hope to cover the myriad of issues in any detail with any justice, so this post is going to be a mixture of personal opinion (mostly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community), some things to for educators to think about, and some signposting to various articles and opinions. Stick with it. Read, think, reflect, share.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Image: Sophie Wilson She shared some thoughts on her work, and the importance of constructivism in education. She now lives in a farm on the Berkshire Downs and talked about her new life as a farmer but with a background as a geography teacher. Farming and geography complement each other. The day started with Margaret Roberts.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Details of the project: The GEODEM-AI project aims to encourage a healthy, critical view of ethical issues related to the use of AI in Geography teaching and learning. The rapid development of AI requires educators to refocus on critical thinking skills and consider the potential for individualised learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics is a relatively obscure federal agency, but its mission to collect data on the state of education affects every public school in the country. Congress mandates a June 1 NCES report on the condition of education. Photo retrieved from the Education Department website.

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