Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Enter the Annotated Mapa strategy that helps students apply history to geography the way they would annotate a text. ” This simple question helped students connect historical events to real-life experiences, making them more engaged from the start. acquired each territory. acquired each territory. How did you react?”

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Living Geography

MAY 30, 2024

The ERAS tour is heading for the UK soon, and there's plenty of geography to be had in exploring the economic and environmental impact of the tour and associated music as well as the interesting cultural implications of the event: the demographics of a typical crowd etc.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. Details of the event are on a recent blog post, or by following the link here. There was also a Zoom call in there and some emails related to a European project connected with AI and the ethics of using it in the geography classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2011

I use the tablet for a variety of things such as keeping myself organized with lists and notes, quickly searching something up on the internet, keeping up with current events, easy references using the periodic table and the dictionary, and more. I also downloaded an sat vocabulary app and a geography quizzes app to brush up on knowledge.

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Geography High School Social Studies Research 279

Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2025

The GTE Conference is an event I have attended periodically since 2009: the first time I attended, which was when I joined the Geographical Association. GTE = Geography Teacher Educators. I've attended events in Southport, Hull, Derbyshire, Oxford and York amongst other locations. This year's event will take place at St.

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Dr. Preece

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With the teacher recruitment offering worrying times for schools and ITE providers alike , it’s already quite common – and likely to become more important – that HoDs and Departments have a considered approach to supporting non-specialists with teaching in Geography. If you have Department meetings, bulletins or approaches to events (e.g.

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Geography Leadership Economics Teaching 66

Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my At the Home of Geography blog.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 6, 2024

By the start of September 2025 and the new academic year, a full suite of resources will be available for Primary Geography on the Oak National website. Here's my unit; It includes some themes which will need to be tackled in various ways in many schools following the recent events in cities around the country.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The event will investigate how landscape features such as rivers, mountains, and other natural elements function as both connectors and boundaries, shaping cultural narratives and societal interactions. Our hybrid conference, scheduled for May 2, 2025 , will be held in person at the Graduate Center in Manhattan and online via Zoom.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Description of the event: This is an important time to be a geography teacher. And what can todays geography teachers, with powerful opportunities with the existing curriculum, do to prepare them? It was organised by the Oxford Education Deanery and shared on their website. Will they be ready?

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The speaker was Tim Marshall - best-selling author of 'Prisoners of Geography' - and a fellow Leeds United fan. He told us that 'Prisoners of Geography' had now passed the three million mark in terms of sales. The final Monday night lecture for this term was held at the RGS on Monday night this week.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. Details of two new update events have been added to the RGS website. Details here of the first one. Neighbourhood deprivation measures play a major role in identifying vulnerable communities in the UK, and in targeting resources to them.

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

A part-time maternity cover teaching Geography in Kings Ely Senior school is currently available from September. A job opportunity for you to work at my school. This would involve Deadline to apply is 19th of March. Details are here. Happy to answer any questions.

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Geography Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly. Just about any student can decode the words “Berlin Wall,” but they need a knowledge of basic geography (where is Berlin?),

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Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

A quiet(ish) one this week initially, but then it started to fill up with a whole range of events and meetings. Just before 6pm I joined the Zoom room ahead of presenting at an RGS Teachmeet on Embedding careers in the geography curriculum. it was a really good and useful event. Where Can Geography Take You?

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Living Geography

MARCH 16, 2025

What's the most creative idea you've ever had while teaching geography? If you feel able to share it (with full credit given) for a presentation I'm putting together for an event at UCL in July please get in touch. I will share the whole thing after the event in July. There's a slide from my presentation below.

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Geography Teaching 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If I have meetings or events in London, one of my favoured places to stay is the Premier Inn Hub on Brick Lane. There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. The first I shall mention is about Old Spitalfields Market. I'll mention them over there.

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Geography Cultures 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

O-Level Geography

AUGUST 26, 2023

How does community events help to develop a sense of place to the residents? National Day celebration dinner at the open space next to Hougang MRT station. This is after the pasar malam which just ended.

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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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Archiving Museum Geography Humanities 52

Living Geography

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2008, I was awarded their Ordnance Survey Award for excellence in Secondary Geography Teaching. We also took students there for a range of events, and I took part in an event representing the Guardian / DfE once as well. In 2007 I became a Fellow of the RGS and Chartered Geographer (Teacher) and have been ever since.

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Geography Teaching Education Research 86

Living Geography

APRIL 29, 2025

Later this week.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And so on… . We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S. government as well.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The raw pain of having to show up for “business as usual” at work while trying to process horrific events like the racially-motivated murder of Atlanta massage workers came up frequently in these conversations. schools in recent years. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. Science Advances , 7(0221).

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Archaeology Humanities Museum Geography 59

Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

It takes a natural disaster or some other horrible event for us to realize we’re not that different from each other, and that its really important for us to work together to get positive things done. This prompted Lohrding to tell his colleagues, I’m the youngest person here.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have also found that some simulations try to bring certain events to life that could be harmful to certain students, especially in the case of difficult historical events. These events or rounds include trumpeters and heralds, long jump, discus, footrace, javelin, wrestling, chariot race, and pankration.

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Artifacts Archaeology Historic Sites Geography 130

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied. Using Connect, Extend, Challenge at the Secondary Level Literary Analysis Connect: Have students relate a theme or character trait from a novel to current events or personal experiences.

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Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2022

And, in terms of mental health, according to the APA , “after climate events, children typically demonstrate more severe distress than adults.” The climate movement can advance its goals by centering young children and their parents. Climate change is already having enduring impacts on children’s health, development and flourishing.

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Geography Psychology Education 111

Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

All of these external events feed into, and enrich my teaching as well as providing me with what Michael Storm called 'professional zest'. If you think you have something that would be of interest to me, whether it's some writing or an event that you'd like my input into that takes place on a Wednesday, please get in touch.

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Geography Library History Teaching 75

O-Level Geography

MARCH 23, 2024

A "zero shadow" event, where objects standing upright will not cast a shadow, took place at 1.11pm on March 23 in Singapore. On this day, the Sun will be directly overhead at 12:17 pm, resulting in objects casting no shadows for brief period of time. This happens for places between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

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Dr. Preece

APRIL 20, 2024

It felt like there were some emerging themes across a number of sessions: the concepts of power, representation and ‘whose Geography’ have now firmly established themselves at the heart of the conference conversation. Clearly, there’s elements of both – a dialogue between Conference and the rest of the community and wider school geography.

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Geography Professional Development Pedagogy Teaching 63

Living Geography

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog : 'At the Home of Geography' - bookmark it now and visit it regularly. I am going to be attending this event as part of the RGS's EXPLORE festival. Details: Join us for a dynamic and interactive evening celebrating the intersection of art and geography, where creativity meets exploration.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 14, 2024

On the 4th of Decemember, the Geographical Association and Institute of Education held a joint seminar exploring the geography curriculum in the light of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. A recording of the contributions and Q&A is available using this link - you will need to login to Zoom in order to see it.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series: Watch the Past Events National campaigns and elections allow citizens to reflect and participate in their democracy. Election Webinar Series showcases how political scientists understand and teach American democracy’s quadrennial event. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. By the end of class, students had a stronger grasp of how the arrival of Columbus and subsequent exploration impacted different groups, and the activities throughout the week helped them think critically about these historical events.

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Primary Sources Artifacts Geography Lesson Plan 128