Blog and updates
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7 Sept 2016
Help and Support for GCSE and A Level Geography Students and Teachers!
If you are studying or teaching GCSE and/ or A Level geography then you’re in the right place!
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30 Aug 2016
Five Biggest Earthquakes Ever Recorded
A short video here outlining details of the largest earthquakes ever recorded - makes for a useful lesson stimulus.
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26 Aug 2016
13 Incredible Facts about Volcanoes - Lesson Video
This 80 second video would make a great stimulus resource for lessons on volcanoes.
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26 Aug 2016
Lesson Starter Activity for Year 7 Geography Class - Trapdoor!
Trapdoor can be used as a bellwork activity (for information on bellwork activities please refer this blog), a starter, a plenary or to deliver new content.
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25 Aug 2016
Free Teaching Resource - Geography Wordplay!
Wordplay is primarily a bellwork/ starter/ plenary activity that can also contribute to the embedding of literacy and numeracy within lessons.
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24 Aug 2016
The Challenge of Linear - Bellwork
The move to linear and the decoupling of AS is the biggest shake-up of A Levels in more than a decade presenting a huge challenge not only to students, but teachers as well.
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24 Aug 2016
Ageing population causing China Crisis
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that hospitals in China are not capable of coping with the increase in medical problems as a result of China's rapidly ageing population.
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20 Aug 2016
Geography A Level Entry Analysis from Summer 2016
A small (1.9%) drop in total A Level entries for AS & A2 Geography in summer 2016. More analysis by exam board below.
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17 Jul 2016
What is geography? From the macro - to the micro.
Just what does geography do - and offer - as a discipline? If geographers have often encountered difficulty in promoting their subject as a clearly defined area of focus as history, or method of...
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16 Jul 2016
Building effective and functioning cities
Here is a video recording of a talk given by Professor Ed Glaeser from Harvard Cities. He discusses how cities can become a crucial source of economic growth, and how the downsides of city density...
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16 Jul 2016
Making Room Underground for 1.5 million City Commuters
The stunning Crossrail project - Europe's largest existing infrastructure project - is nearing completion.
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8 Jul 2016
Global population: 11 billion by 2100 is a bit of a 'good news/bad news' story.
"It's not that we've started breeding like rabbits; we've just stopped dying like flies", wrote Peter Adamson back in 1974 to explain the surging growth in world population. Ironically, the world...
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1 Jul 2016
Hole in the ozone layer shows signs of healing. Or doesn't.
A report has come out this week stating that international co-operation to manage a global environmental issue is showing signs of success: the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic is...
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18 Jun 2016
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels pass 400 ppm everywhere and every month
El Nino is responsible for many climatic effects from droughts to torrential storms and warming oceans. It's also likely to be responsible for CO2 levels passing the 400 ppm (parts per million)...
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10 Jun 2016
A Giant 2016/17 Wall Planner for the Geography Department
This will look great on the Geography department wall - a giant A2-sized 2016/17 wall planner. Perfect for adding the dates of field trips, exams, dept birthdays or whatever!
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2 Jun 2016
Mastering the A2 40-Mark Questions
If you're struggling to master the A2 40-mark questions, this will shed light and help you to structure your answers in the right way.
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1 Jun 2016
Renewable energy growing at its fastest rate ever
Spending on the extraction of fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil has reduced in recent times, in favour of renewable sources of energy.
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31 May 2016
Plastic coating for reservoirs helps conserve California's water supply
There is much concern about plastic in the oceans and the detrimental effect it is having on marine life. However, in a twist to the combination of the material and water, millions of plastic balls...
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25 May 2016
Time: making the most of the most pressured resource you have in your A level Geography exam
You’ve done the revision, your head is packed with the information, you have all your equipment to hand – and now it’s a case of just doing the geography exam paper. Except, how well you do is...
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23 May 2016
Teaching Resources for the new AQA A Level Geography
We are pleased to announce details of the first series of tutor2u resources to support the teaching of the new AQA A Level Geography specification.
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