Has the Hungry Gap Caused a Supermarket Sweep?
If anyone in the UK was planning to give up fresh salad for Lent then they might have been dealt a helping hand. This week supermarkets such as ASDA, Tesco and ALDI announced that they have...
Flag of the Week - 20th February 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at Mexico...
Geography News Quiz: 17th February 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Podcast Recommendation - Reasons to be Cheerful: How to Talk to a Climate Change Denier
One of the things I miss now that I am working from home is listening to podcasts as I drove to and from school, so this week I decided it was time to catch up with some episodes of one of my...
Flag of the Week - 13th February 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at Turkey...
Geography News Quiz: 10th February 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
The Turkey/Syria earthquake - not just a new case study!
As geographers we often find it handy when a natural hazard event takes place during our hazards scheme of work - it can make what you are teaching much more relevant to the students, and obviously...
Flag of the Week - 6th February 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at Peru and...
Geography News Quiz: 3rd February 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Forces for Change – Bank of Dave
My Year 12 “wider reading” recommendation for Changing Places this week was simple and straightforward. Go on Netflix and watch ‘Bank of Dave’. I watched it myself on Sunday afternoon and it was a...
Flag of the Week - 30th January 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at Japan...
Geography News Quiz: 27th January 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Japan - a population in crisis!
Japan's birth rate has plummeted to 1.3 babies per woman, with births dropping to a record-low of 800,000 last year. A birth rate of 2.1 is needed to keep the population stable. But what has...
Futuristic Japan heading for the history books?
Earlier I read an article about Japan's 'population crisis' and just as I was about to blog about that, I stumbled across a really interesting piece about how Japan is stuck in a time warp and...
The Rapidly Growing Magic of the Washing Machine
After ten days without a working washing machine, yesterday, a new machine arrived! I’m tempted to watch it like TV, such is the positive impact it has had on my family already. Momentarily gazing,...
Flag of the Week - 23rd January 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at New...
Geography News Quiz: 20th January 2023
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
Trouble at'Mill
“Daddy, it looks like a monster has come down and taken a bite out of that building” was the comment from my son as we drove past the site of the Lily Mill in Shaw, in Oldham last week. He was...
A very different World Economic Forum this year?
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place in the famous ski resort of Davos in Switzerland, drawing in government ministers and chief executives from across the globe, who are hoping...
Podcast recommendation: Rethink Climate (BBC Sounds)
Rethink is a BBC Radio 4 series presented by Amol Rajan, and inspired by how the world might change after the coronavirus pandemic. Most recently Amol and his guests have been ‘rethinking’ climate...