Blog and updates
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17 Sept 2015
8.3 magnitude in Chile sets off tsunami warning
At least 5 people have died and 1 million coastal inhabitants have been evacuated following the major quake.
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12 Sept 2015
Heatwave in USA causes wildfires
Residents in northern California are fleeing after wildfires threaten homes.
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12 Sept 2015
Feedback on GCSE Geography Exams in Summer 2015
Welcome back to another school year and I am sure many teachers and new year 11 pupils will be thinking about how they can ensure they get the best grades possible. As an experienced examiner, with...
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8 Sept 2015
Buildings & Plastic Corsets - Retro-engineering Against Earthquake Damage
While new buildings can be designed to withstand severe earthquakes, they come with a price-tag: foundations, materials, design, all costs that don't come cheap. For existing buildings the main...
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7 Sept 2015
Mega Cities - Where the largest city hosts the most people
This chart shows the % of the populaton living in the largest metropolitan area in selected countries
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7 Sept 2015
Change your view of the world with a minimalist map
These brilliant maps show no political boundaries and just one topographic feature http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/see-the-worl...I particularly like the rivers one. One of these maps would...
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5 Sept 2015
UN climate talks moving along slowly
Ban Ki-Moon is concerned that current talks are not on track to deliver a new global deal by December.
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5 Sept 2015
Fire proof trees provide hope for many countries who suffer from forest fire risk
When a fire swept through an area of forest in Spain in 2012, a group of Mediterranean Cypress trees were unaffected.
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5 Sept 2015
Cities and Exercise
The health benefits of even a moderate level of daily exercise are well understood. However, modern living doesn't do much to encourage us to abandon our increasingly sedentary lifestyles.What can...
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4 Sept 2015
The World Has 3 Trillion Trees - and Falling
Deforestation remains a significant issue for our planet. However, this excellent video from the WSJ provides a ray of sunshine. The world has more trees than is commonly thought. The latest...
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4 Sept 2015
What is the Schengen Agreement?
The news is full of often distressing images and videos of the growing refugee crisis in Europe.As tens of thousands of refugees continue to stream into Europe, the EU's Schengen passport-free zone...
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4 Sept 2015
Trees are Worth More Alive Than Dead
If deforestation continues on its current course, we'll have lost an area of tropical forest the size of India by 2050. This video explains why forest preservation is one of our best defenses...
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31 Aug 2015
Lesson resource - new population data shown on interactive map
Population Reference Bureau have just released 2015 population data. Great for discussions in lessons.
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29 Aug 2015
Introducing Year 7s to Geography
Many year 7s have limited experience and knowledge of our subject. That's why it's so important we gain their interest in the first lesson!
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29 Aug 2015
Creating Geographical Thinkers
As the pressure builds on pupils to achieve, with even harder subject content and skills to demonstrate, what better way to get them thinking each lesson than with really imaginative starters!
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29 Aug 2015
Geography Thunks get you Thinking
I'm going to try to get my students to think more deeply about topics, and develop their explanation skills this year. I've been inspired by Ian Gilbert's "The Little Book of Thunks" to come up...
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28 Aug 2015
Is New York City Too Small?
The NIMBY-ism (‘not in my backyard’) of local politics leads to a bias against large cities that constrains national productivity growth. That is the central conclusion of a study by Frederic...
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27 Aug 2015
Which UK City Tops the 2014 Wages League?
London, Aberdeen, Crawley and Reading feature as the four cities in the United Kingdom with the highest weekly earnings in 2014. The data below is from the Centre for Cities which provides a wealth...
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27 Aug 2015
How much fossil fuel has been used in your life time?
This brilliant tool from the Guardian would make a really thought provoking starter.
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27 Aug 2015
Water cycle in a bag
This very basic experiment would be great to do with younger pupils at the start of a lesson on the water cycle. Once you have taught all the processes and terminology associated with the water...
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