Blog and updates
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18 May 2023
GIS in the Classroom Blog 4: How can we use GIS to investigate coasts?
To say that coasts are important to humanity is something of an understatement. Coastal zones enabled our ancestors survive significant climate changes. The spread of humanity frequently happens...
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11 May 2023
GIS in the Classroom Blog 3: How can we use GIS to investigate rivers?
What do long profiles and cross profiles really look like? When studying rivers, GIS can help students gain a deeper understanding of how river features are created, think more deeply about the...
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4 May 2023
GIS in the Classroom Blog 2: How can we teach with GIS and why is it important?
It’s very important to teach with and about GIS as early as possible in the geography curriculum. ‘But students don’t have access to IT’ is a common and understandable response to this mandate. We...
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30 Apr 2023
Flag of the Week - 1st May 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 the...
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25 Apr 2023
GIS in the Classroom Blog 1: Why should we be using GIS in our lessons?
In a University Challenge 2022-23 quarter final on 13th March, Jeremy Paxman asked this question: ‘Which English physician is noted for his investigations of cholera in nineteenth century London,...
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24 Apr 2023
Plans for a new reservoir in Oxfordshire has residents asking 'lake or mistake?'
Many of us find the GCSE Resource Management unit a bit dry to teach, so although most of us would be against plans for large scale energy developments in the UK due to their environmental impacts,...
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23 Apr 2023
Flag of the Week - 24th April 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 the...
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17 Apr 2023
Geography already has data skills sorted, thank you very much Mr Sunak!
Over the last few months Rishi Sunak has made it very clear what he thinks about maths in school. He has stated that he wants all pupils studying some sort of maths until the age of 18, and claims...
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26 Mar 2023
Flag of the Week - 27th March 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 Uganda...
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20 Mar 2023
Public emergency alerts on UK phones
A new public warning system designed to alert people to the threat of natural hazards is to go on trial in the UK next month. Sent by the emergency services or the government, messages will trigger...
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19 Mar 2023
Flag of the Week - 20th March 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 Alaska...
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16 Mar 2023
Are protected cold environments really that safe? It seems not!
At the weekend the US government announced that it was imposing limits on oil and gas drilling in 16 million acres of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean - yet on Monday President Biden approved the highly...
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14 Mar 2023
Podcast Recommendation: ‘A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage’
A couple of weeks ago we posted a blog about the recent shortages of certain produce seen in our supermarkets.
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