Lessons to be learned from the summer's GCSE exams - Paper 3: Fieldwork
My final blog highlights the important takeaways from the fieldwork section of the examiner report. Each year this seems to be the part of the paper that teachers and students dread (completely...
Lessons to be learned from the summer's GCSE exams - Paper 3: Issue Evaluation (the pre-release)
In this blog I have highlighted the key points from the examiners report that you need to aware of when prepping students for this part of the exam next time. It is also worth pointing out that the...
Lessons to be learned from the summer's GCSE exams - Paper 2
Today I am moving on to look at Paper 2 - this examiner report is much shorter than the one for Paper 1, so it will be discussed in just one blog post. It is probably worth mentioning at the start...
Lessons to be learned from the summer's GCSE exams - Paper 1 analysis
In this blog I am going to highlight the key points from the Paper 1 examiner report for AQA GCSE Geography. Have a read of the previous post that summarises overall performance -...
Over the next week or so I am going to share a series of blogs that summarise key parts of the examiner reports. The examiners reports are a really useful tool to help inform your teaching, and in...
GCSE Geography Induction Pack
It's always tricky to know how to start the GCSE course with students - do you spend an hour relaying expectations and explaining the assessment structure and content or do you just plough straight...
A-Level Geography Induction Pack for Year 12
Gearing up for the arrival of Year 12? Grab a copy of this pack of induction activities to slot into your first few lessons of the A-level Geography course.
A-Level Geography Results Analysis 2023
Grading of students this summer was trailed as being similar to that of students in 2019, prior to the pandemic. In fact, across all subjects A results were up, from 7.7% to 8.9%, as were A-A...
Educational rationale: Decision making exercises are common in GCSE courses, notably AQA, and also included in some A Level courses too. It is a critical thinking skill held in high regard by...
With record-breaking temperatures across most of southern Europe, but downpour after downpour across the UK, lots of students may be questioning whether climate change is anything to be worried...
GIS for the NEA: A Quick Start Guide for the Confused!
For many teachers and students the NEA feels like a natural place to start using GIS. The ability to efficiently collect, present and analyse spatial data is of huge importance to a successful...
Geography News Quiz: 7th July 2023
Here's our final weekly 'Geography in the News' Quiz for this academic year.
Yes, it's National Fieldwork Fortnight, but for many departments a major obstacle when carrying out fieldwork is a lack of equipment, and in times of dwindling budgets buying fieldwork equipment...
Geography News Quiz: 30th June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
GIS in the Classroom Blog 10: How can we use GIS to investigate change in population?
‘Demography, demography, demography!’ It’s hard not to overstate the importance of studying population in geography. A good understanding of the dynamics and spatial dimensions of demography seems...
Get Outside - it’s National Fieldwork Fortnight!
Following on from the success of last year’s Geographical Association National Fieldwork Week, it is now National Fieldwork Fortnight. The next two weeks are the perfect excuse to leave your hot...
COP26 saw world leaders pledging to end deforestation in an attempt to fight climate change and protect biodiversity. But last year global tree loss surged, with an area of tropical rainforest the...
Geography News Quiz: 23rd June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Geographical perspectives on economic and social development are an integral part of the secondary curriculum. How can geospatial resources offer support for learning in this area? Fortunately, the...
Geography News Quiz: 16th June 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.