A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

Social media has completely disrupted that and, in the process, removed barriers such as time, geography, and money. The image below illustrates another secret that I have to come clean about, but one that also represents the ultimate power of connected learning. All of us are limited to the people we surround ourselves with in life.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

A Quest for Our Earliest Stories Myths and legends have always been windows into the human psyche, revealing our fears, dreams, and attempts to understand the world. Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions?

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Two legends of international geography teaching, resource creation and training in the same virtual space: Richard Allaway and Matt Podbury have teamed up to offer some special support for teachers in international schools / teaching international qualifications. A new venture, and one I can certainly get behind.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

Green jobs are an area that both the GA and RGS are interested in supporting and feel that those who study geography are perfectly positioned to move into such jobs with the focus of many geography 'A' level specifications and undergraduate courses being linked to sustainability issues and an increasing need to tackle climate change.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I plan to add in links […] The post Finding the Help You Need For Teaching Geography appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers. Organization to Help You Find What You Need There are so many of you that are classroom teachers short on time (and energy), so I wanted to write a series of posts just for you!

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Living Geography

JANUARY 29, 2025

The theme for this issue, edited by Ben Ballin , is the Geography of Togetherness. I am very pleased to have an article in this issue on this theme. Thanks to Ben for asking me to contribute some time ago. Subscribers can now download the digital issue and print copies will be arriving shortly.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Time for Geography had worked with Rhian and Rayburn to produce some new resources telling this compelling story, and they are now starting to be available. She had just published her work on the legacy of the eruptions on Heimaey. An eruption on the island in 1973 led to the evacuation of its population. Many of them moved to Grindavik.

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Living Geography

MARCH 25, 2025

Via the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Do you teach Geography in Scotland? Wed love to hear from you!

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Physical copies of the GA's journals arrived this week - not 'Geography' yet. If you are a subscriber to Primary Geography you will have been able to read my article on inclusion / exclusion in rural / urban spaces. Check it out and download it if you are a subscriber.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2025

It's the 4th edition of a textbook for the newly updated iGCSE Geography specification. Along with this student book - the 4th edition, written for the new Cambridge iGCSE Geography specification, there is also a Teacher's Guide , which contains lesson plans and extra resources, plus answers for all the questions in the book.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Hillman says that he began looking at geography out of frustration with an emphasis during the Obama administration on providing consumer information about higher education as a solution to college access.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Answer the questions to find out what sort of a geography teacher you are. I'd gone home by then, but looking at the presentation slides and the project website it's easy to work out what the project is about. It was presented by Petr Knecht and Michaela Spurn. Here are the types of teacher they have identified.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This is now available. An annual treat for as long as I can remember. Always a fixture of my final week before the Christmas break. Helen Young has provided your final lesson of term for you with a 12 question quiz. I use this with all my groups in the final lesson and it always goes down well.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It is a reminder of the strong connections between geography and the teaching of climate change issues. A letter from Steve Brace is on the Guardian's web page today.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

These movements have blurred the relationship between genetics and geography, making it difficult to reconstruct the origins of its inhabitants. “There’s been so much movement in Wallacea in the past couple of thousand years that it obscures the relationship between geography and genetics,” Tobler added.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Still, the geography offers clues. Nobody Knows — Yet. The fossil defies easy dating. Seawater had long since stripped away its collagen, eliminating possibilities for radiocarbon analysis. During Ice Age glacial periods, sea levels dropped, and Taiwan was connected to mainland Asia.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. I imagine the airport staff know him well by now. I wanted to hear about Dalton’s classroom experience first. He taught U.S. history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

erectus geography but not in the way we expected. Today the modern equivalents of gambiersuch as palm oil and timber plantationsand the relentless pursuit of profit means some areas are continuing to experience deforestation at the highest rates in the world. We potentially solved a knowledge gap in H.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2025

My Cultural Geography blog , which I started in 2007 while teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE (which had a cultural geography topic) is where I place posts (sometimes cross posting from here) related to cultural geography: music, books, art etc but also linked to the definition below: The study of the relationship between culture and place.

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Living Geography

MARCH 27, 2025

Studying geography provides students with knowledge and transferable skills that will reward them personally and advance them professionally. In this free online CPD session, Alan Parkinson, author of Why Study Geography?

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Soii Havzak Rockshelter: Geography and Significance Soii Havzak is uniquely situated to shed light on the Zeravshan Valley’s ancient role as a crossroads.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Geography is a subject that develops young people’s curiosity and helps them to apply that curiosity and learning in real-world contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Via the latest issue of 'Geography' journal. The University of Liverpool has shared a variety of Google Earth Engine tools for researchers (and educators). This includes options for coding using Google Earth Engine.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 11, 2025

He is clear that "geography is everything!" GIS digitises geography and puts it into a geographical frame. Organisations are run by geography. Do analytics of the geography behind the maps. trillion maps were created showing the spread of COVID19 around the world "Geography is everything" Find out more here.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He introduced himself to me by showing me the cover of 'Why Study Geography?' It was a pleasure to chat to Petr Knecht: from the University of Ostrava. on his phone and asking me whether that was me who'd written the book. He then showed me articles on Google Scholar where my book was referenced in his work and that of others.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 17, 2024

from science to geography). Another example relates to the current KS3/ 4 geography curriculum where the disproportionate amount of time devoted to teaching past climate change and in particular the Milankovitch cycles seems to have led to respondents overestimating the impact of natural forcing mechanisms on recent climate change.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. Physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and the water cycle. Human geography, including economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

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Living Geography

MARCH 9, 2025

Cross-posting from my Cultural Geography and Geography on / in Film blogs. I saw this film a few weeks' ago and it's well worth seeing for those who like their music. It's based around interviews with the three surviving members and taped interviews with John Bonham.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. The aim is to share best practice ideas and current research being done in geography education including masters level and other initiatives and project work, relevant to training geography teachers. This is taking place at St.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

Not a new post - a few years old - but relevant today when teaching about the geography of our consumption and the impact it has on the planet. Visual Capitalist has produced a striking visualisation of which parts of the planet have been most affected by human activity.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 18, 2025

There's a lot of geography in this news item from the BBC News on the controversies surrounding beach cabanas on Australian beaches. However, the number of these structures is causing some problems and there are contrasting views on them.

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Geography Education

JULY 23, 2024

My presentation on spatial relationships in AP Human Geography is archived here with the slides available here on Google Drive or the PDF below. I’m very excited to be presenting in Las Vegas for the AP Annual Conference. APAC Spatial Relationships 2024 Download

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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. Annotated Maps + Dice Challenge On Wednesday, students took an initial Quizizz on how the U.S. acquired each territory. The class average across all periods was 49%clearly, they needed more time with the content.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Interesting to read what I wrote when asked the question: "What is Geography ?" Geography is the study of the earth and what goes on underneath it. There are two main aspects of Geography, one is physical Geography and the other is Human Geography. Just been browsing an exercise book of mine from 1976.

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