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Geography Weekly Quiz | 18 November 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 11 November 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 04 November 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
The scariest thing about Halloween is the waste!
Over the last few years it seems that Halloween has become almost as popular as Christmas - where I live some houses have been decorated since the start of the month, and supermarket shelves have...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 21 October 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 14 October 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 07 October 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 30 September 2024
Here's this week's Geography news quiz. Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the previous 7 days. Each answer...
Geography Weekly Quiz | 23 September 2024
After several requests we have reinstated our weekly geography quiz Each week, during term time, tutor2u sets a quiz asking 8 multi-choice questions about events relating to geography from the...
The end of the line for HS2. What next?
We all know that the infrastructure improvements section of Changing Economic World at GCSE is getting harder to teach with the textbook examples hugely out-of-date or never went ahead. In the last...
Hopeful Geographies 4: Women in Data & Women's Health
Data is the lifeblood of geography at A-level. I have to confess to a girl crush on @_HannahRitchie who is Deputy Editor of Our World in Data and if you’re not following her Substack can I suggest...
At A-Level we are asked to consider thresholds or tipping points in Earth's systems. We are used to talking about thresholds in terms of climate change, such as accelerating ice melt and positive...
Hopeful Geographies 2: ‘Joined Up’ Conservation Works in Southern Africa
Last week The Guardian reported that African elephant populations in southern Africa have stabilised after many decades of decline. Further, the science shows elephant populations able to migrate...
2023 - A Year of Extreme Weather
Most of us started back at work today - and much of that 'Christmas holiday chat' will have focused on the state of the weather over the two week break. I live in Buxton so am no stranger to...
Hopeful Geographies in 2024
Happy New Year to you and all your students. And in the Geography Department, in 2024, I think us teachers ought to mean it. In an excellent opening lecture at last year’s GA conference Jenny...
How the Climate Crisis Could Impact Health Locally and Globally
Last week the health impact of global environmental change was in the headlines as officials met to discuss the issue at COP28 in Dubai - a COP first. This week the story has become a local one,...
Global Heating and the Unintended Consequences of Global Governance
Studying human interventions in the carbon cycle? Here’s an update you might have missed, as it was publicised in August. Scientists have discovered that we have been carrying out a massive...
Sycamore Gap: Place Imageability & Place Meaning
Yesterday the news broke of the loss of a 300-year old tree that stood on in the so-called Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall, apparently felled by vandals. I use the term ‘broke’ in part because I...
UK Infrastructure Developments - Time for an Update!
Most of us teaching the AQA GCSE spec will agree that the UK section of Changing Economic World is a thorn in our sides and very tricky to make remotely engaging to students. And then you add in...
Space and Place - A-Level Changing Places
Having met my Year 12s for the first time last week we launched ourselves into the Changing Places unit of the specification. We have learned that a space is a place without meaning, whereas a...
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