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improvements section of Changing Economic World at GCSE is getting harder to teach with the textbook examples hugely out-of-date or never went ahead.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...
Climate Change - Building Resilience with Education and Flood Defence
This World Bank video clip looks at how the organisation has helped make the provision of education more resilient, with schools increasingly designed to withstand extreme weather incidents. This...
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,...
2023 Festive A-level Geography Quizzes
Fabulous free downloads, our Physical and Human Festive quizzes for 2023 are based on core topics taught for the AQA specification: Water & Carbon Cycles, with an icy twist (Physical),...
2023 Festive GCSE Geography Quiz
Here is our eagerly awaited GCSE Geography Christmas Quiz for 2023 - it contains loads of our fab festive templates and is a mixture of general geography questions, with a few activities geared...
COP28 Teaching Activities: Three Carbon News Stories and How to Use Them
Three recent news stories about the carbon budget and climate have caught my eye. Spoiler-alert: one story features a Pacific 'island paradise'. All are useful hooks to promote students'...
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...
GCSE Geography: Geographical Skills Halloween Quiz
Revise your students' geographical skills using this free Halloween-themed interactive quiz. It has a selection of activities to test those skills that make up 10% of the total marks at GCSE...
A-level Geography: Quantitative Skills Halloween Quiz
For some students, quantitative skills are scary stuff. Here is a free, Halloween-themed A-Level Geography quiz you can use to revise these skills, including statistical tests, in the run up to...
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...
AQA A-Level Geography Paper 2 Topic Tracker 2023
UPDATED FOR 2023: This resource provides a detailed, topic-by-topic breakdown of how the Paper 2 Human Geography topics have been examined in the papers set so far for AQA A-Level...
AQA A-Level Geography Paper 1 Topic Tracker 2023
UPDATED FOR 2023: This free, downloadable resource provides a detailed, topic-by-topic breakdown of how the Paper 1 Physical Geography topics have been examined in papers set so far for AQA A-Level...
Geography Requires Improvement (although has improved significantly since the last report!)
Yesterday Ofsted published the long-awaited geography subject report - and there are lots of positives to take away - the main one being that geography teaching is in a much better state now, than...
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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