A good image starter for considering eco-friendly / sustainable building design...
Image copyright by Peter Firmin (my wife went to art college with his daughter Emily you know... as in Emily from the titles of Bagpuss...)
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Eco-house design
Courtesy of Peter Firmin, who along with Oliver Postgate created the glory that was Noggin the Nog (and Bagpuss, the Clangers, Pogle's Wood etc....)
Visit the DRAGON'S FRIENDLY SOCIETY shop to buy all sorts of Smallfilms merchandise, including this print....
A good image starter for considering eco-friendly / sustainable building design...
Image copyright by Peter Firmin (my wife went to art college with his daughter Emily you know... as in Emily from the titles of Bagpuss...)
A good image starter for considering eco-friendly / sustainable building design...
Image copyright by Peter Firmin (my wife went to art college with his daughter Emily you know... as in Emily from the titles of Bagpuss...)
Infinite City
Another tip off via Twitter...
The INFINITE CITY is an article about a new book by Rebecca Solnit, who we like a lot at the Geography Collective.
It's an 'atlas of San Francisco', but not the usual type...
They are designed to make the reader think anew about the city of San Francisco—its history, natural habitat, economic function, political values—and, by extension, about the way we all imagine the places we live in. "A city," Solnit writes in her introduction, "is a particular kind of place, perhaps best described as many worlds in one place; it compounds many versions without reconciling them."
Ordinary maps show only the physical infrastructure that these "many worlds" share—streets, rivers, monuments.
The maps in Infinite City, on the other hand, treat the physical city as a blank slate, on which many different experiences can be overwritten, like texts on a palimpsest.
Exciting urban geography...
Sounds like a fascinating book !!
The INFINITE CITY is an article about a new book by Rebecca Solnit, who we like a lot at the Geography Collective.
It's an 'atlas of San Francisco', but not the usual type...
They are designed to make the reader think anew about the city of San Francisco—its history, natural habitat, economic function, political values—and, by extension, about the way we all imagine the places we live in. "A city," Solnit writes in her introduction, "is a particular kind of place, perhaps best described as many worlds in one place; it compounds many versions without reconciling them."
Ordinary maps show only the physical infrastructure that these "many worlds" share—streets, rivers, monuments.
The maps in Infinite City, on the other hand, treat the physical city as a blank slate, on which many different experiences can be overwritten, like texts on a palimpsest.
Exciting urban geography...
Sounds like a fascinating book !!
From a glacier's perspective...
A new blog discovery, which has a range of tremendous examples for those doing glaciation, or after potential 'evidence' for climate change is From a Glacier's perspective , which has a range of useful resources on the "health" of the world's glaciers...
There are plenty of examples for those studying COLD ENVIRONMENTS... (i.e. most of us at the moment)
There are plenty of examples for those studying COLD ENVIRONMENTS... (i.e. most of us at the moment)
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them...
What are your views on them ?
It may depend on your childhood experiences of them, and the way that they were prepared.
Sprout growers are facing some problems at the moment. There is a small window just before Christmas when the sprouts have to be harvested, so that they can be processed.
For many producers, the temperature has been so low that the sprouts are frozen, and are likely to remain so until next week.
Frozen sprouts are damaged by machinery if it is used to harvest them, and they also rot quickly if they are not properly thawed out, and the flavour and smell are impaired if they are frozen to the core. They are currently having to be cut in stalks, and then thawed out, which adds extra costs, which may well be passed on to the consumer.
I see a lot of sprouts as I drive through Lincolnshire: the East coast is one area where they are grown, and this has been hard hit by the snow and freezing temperatures. This newspaper article talks to the major grower in East Yorkshire, who supplies Morrisons with a third of their sprouts, and has been unable to harvest his sprouts.
I've started a TWTPOLL - please feel free to go HERE and fill in your views on whether you like sprouts...
At the time of posting, the current state of play is shown below:
Sprouts are part of our culture, and part of our farming landscape.
A sprout is not just for Christmas....
Image by Alan Parkinson
Monday, 6 December 2010
Event Cancellation: North Staffs GA Branch
Unfortunately, the bad weather and fairly dodgy road conditions has caused me to postpone a few events in the last 10 days, bringing my UK tour to a pre-Christmas halt...
The latest casualty of the snow is unfortunately the GA North Staffs Branch meeting that was going to be held at Staffordshire University's Stoke-on-Trent site this Wednesday...
The roads are too bad, and have just been listening to various people's 4 hour plus horror stories of their journeys home...
Apologies for those who were planning to come, some of whom have already been in touch. I'll try and see you in 2011...
Stay safe...
The latest casualty of the snow is unfortunately the GA North Staffs Branch meeting that was going to be held at Staffordshire University's Stoke-on-Trent site this Wednesday...
The roads are too bad, and have just been listening to various people's 4 hour plus horror stories of their journeys home...
Apologies for those who were planning to come, some of whom have already been in touch. I'll try and see you in 2011...
Stay safe...
Fog...
I woke up to freezing fog, which has lasted almost all day...
There had been cold weather for some weeks, and coal fires had been stoked up to keep out the chill. In Battersea and Bankside, further coal was being burned to power the city. The air over the city was becalmed. High pressure meant little or no winds.
The smog which formed was blamed for thousands of deaths, and contributed to calls for environmental legislation which led to the Clean Air Act.
To read more visit my HODDER BLOG posts...
London has often been associated with fog. Charles Dickens mentioned the fog in the opening chapter of 'Bleak House'.
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.
Stay safe out there tonight... the weather's turning bad again in places...
That very nice Big Ben icon was from the very talented ICONKA folk...
David Mitchell on Weather forecasts..
David Mitchell writes a column in the Observer.
This weekend, he has written an entertaining piece on the weather forecast.
Written in his usual exasperated-but-erudite-rant style...
This weekend, he has written an entertaining piece on the weather forecast.
Written in his usual exasperated-but-erudite-rant style...
Cycling to Hong Kong
After I was involved in blogging Mark Beaumont's Around the World Cycle adventure, here is news of another pair of cyclists who are planning an epic trip, and which could provide a useful context for some curriculum content.
Hong Kong Cycle will take place in 2011.
Jon Lee and Micheil Gordon will do the riding - taking the ferry to Dieppe and then cycling for the next ten months or so
They are raising money for the charity WATER AID.
More to come on this into 2011....
Hong Kong Cycle will take place in 2011.
Jon Lee and Micheil Gordon will do the riding - taking the ferry to Dieppe and then cycling for the next ten months or so
They are raising money for the charity WATER AID.
More to come on this into 2011....
New GA Cold-weather resources
There has been a new addition to the GA website today in time for the festive season. The first falls of snow came a little early this year, but we have put together a geo-advent of ideas for you to savour...
There are 25 ideas to use in the run-up to the end of term, and into the new year, focussing on the winter weather and some seasonal elements. It's the most wonderful time of the year...
Thanks to Tom Barrett for starting the #uksnowdepth map, to Helen Nurton for her classic "articifial or real Christmas tree" mystery, and the pupils and staff at Micklands Primary School, and to my colleague Anne Greaves for putting the page together.
If you had additional ideas, please get in touch with Anne via the website, or add them as comments here.
There are 25 ideas to use in the run-up to the end of term, and into the new year, focussing on the winter weather and some seasonal elements. It's the most wonderful time of the year...
Thanks to Tom Barrett for starting the #uksnowdepth map, to Helen Nurton for her classic "articifial or real Christmas tree" mystery, and the pupils and staff at Micklands Primary School, and to my colleague Anne Greaves for putting the page together.
If you had additional ideas, please get in touch with Anne via the website, or add them as comments here.
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Saving the Arctic
A really intriguing article arrived earlier this week via Twitter.
It describes a proposal to save the Arctic by building a barrage across the Bering Straits.
The projects is called the DIOMEDE CROSSROADS.
The name comes from the islands in the middle of the straits, which will be familiar to those geography teachers who have perhaps used Michael Palin's journeys in the classroom, as he started his FULL CIRCLE journey there...
The aim is to reduce the impact of rising temperatures on Arctic sea ice.
This would be a particular large scale example of a 'technological fix'....
It describes a proposal to save the Arctic by building a barrage across the Bering Straits.
The projects is called the DIOMEDE CROSSROADS.
The name comes from the islands in the middle of the straits, which will be familiar to those geography teachers who have perhaps used Michael Palin's journeys in the classroom, as he started his FULL CIRCLE journey there...
The aim is to reduce the impact of rising temperatures on Arctic sea ice.
This would be a particular large scale example of a 'technological fix'....
New IB Geography course from the GA...
The International Baccalaureate is being considered by a growing number of teachers as an alternative to more traditional courses.
IB Geography - Reflecting on the 'new' syllabus
This CPD course will help Post-16 teachers, both new and experienced, reflect upon the demands of the IB geography diploma programme.
The 'new' 2009–2017 syllabus will have completed its first cycle in the summer of 2011 and this one-day course will provide an excellent opportunity for teachers to reflect upon the first cycle and make plans for the next.
London - Friday 24 June 2011
Further details and online booking are available on the GA website
The course tutor is Richard Allaway, creator of the rather wonderful GEOGRAPHY ALL THE WAY website.
IB Geography - Reflecting on the 'new' syllabus
This CPD course will help Post-16 teachers, both new and experienced, reflect upon the demands of the IB geography diploma programme.
The 'new' 2009–2017 syllabus will have completed its first cycle in the summer of 2011 and this one-day course will provide an excellent opportunity for teachers to reflect upon the first cycle and make plans for the next.
London - Friday 24 June 2011
Further details and online booking are available on the GA website
The course tutor is Richard Allaway, creator of the rather wonderful GEOGRAPHY ALL THE WAY website.
Google Earth 6
A new version of Google Earth was released recently GOOGLE EARTH 6...
It includes millions of 3D trees, and other improvements, including better integration with Google Street View
Go to the AMAZON for example, and you can wander the jungle and explore some of the tree species in the rainforest... I'm sure we can come up with some ideas for using this in the geography classroom :)
And don't forget my Innovative Geography Teaching funded project from back in 2005...
It includes millions of 3D trees, and other improvements, including better integration with Google Street View
Go to the AMAZON for example, and you can wander the jungle and explore some of the tree species in the rainforest... I'm sure we can come up with some ideas for using this in the geography classroom :)
And don't forget my Innovative Geography Teaching funded project from back in 2005...
Extreme shopping...
I liked this (via @MrGeog on Twitter)....
The impact of location and transport costs on grocery prices in Nunavut... All prices in dollars.
Led me to various other videos, some with added swearing, with lots of prices that could be compared with those back home...
Using a currency converter to convert from dollar pricing...
How can people possibly afford these prices ?
One answer is the NORTHERN ALLOWANCE which is paid at variable rates to people living (and working ?) in the area...
You can see the various amounts of allowance that are paid in the PDF for 2010/11 that you can download from THIS PAGE
The big freeze hasn't quite caused prices to rise that high yet thank goodness...
The impact of location and transport costs on grocery prices in Nunavut... All prices in dollars.
Led me to various other videos, some with added swearing, with lots of prices that could be compared with those back home...
Using a currency converter to convert from dollar pricing...
How can people possibly afford these prices ?
One answer is the NORTHERN ALLOWANCE which is paid at variable rates to people living (and working ?) in the area...
You can see the various amounts of allowance that are paid in the PDF for 2010/11 that you can download from THIS PAGE
The big freeze hasn't quite caused prices to rise that high yet thank goodness...
Friday, 3 December 2010
Farming is the next big thing for twittering classes...
Farming is the next big thing for twittering classes
With thanks to Janet Hickinbottom from FACE for sending this information through...
Twitter is a social networking website which allows its users to send and read other users’ messages called ‘tweets’. It lets you send a 140 character long message which can be read by anyone but only directly by followers. It was launched in 2006 and since then its growth has been exponential.
Many question what Twitter is for. For some, it is a way of following people who they are interested in – the most popular being Stephen Fry. As a result it has developed a reputation for being trite and insubstantial. However, its immediacy means that it is also a way of hearing news as it happens and increasinly, a way of following topics or asking questions of like-minded people.
Some farmers are beginning to use twitter as a way of communicating with each other and the general public. Despite being popular amonst young people, it has not commonly been used in schools where it has been viewed with great suspicion and its use prevented.
Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) decided that it would be interesting to develop a project that brought farmers and pupils together through Twitter. Having discussed the idea with Alan Parkinson from the Geographical Association an invitation to participate was sent out to farmers and teachers. A group was formed on Twitter which was exclusive to those signing up to the project. Once the farmers and teachers were briefed, a two week slot was set up when pupils would be able to ask questions which the farmers would try to answer. As a pilot, the brief was left open-ended so that we could learn from what worked and what do not work.
There was a slow start to the conversations due to many schools having issues to resolve so that the majority of the first week was spent with the farmers posting comments about their daily life. This in itself was an interesting development. When schools did start to participate, the questions started to appear in ever increasing numbers and the farmers began to reply. The questions varied from how to become a farmer to which aspects of farming were more profitable .
When the twittering had ended, the farmers and teachers were asked their views about the pilot project. Some farmers and teachers had initial problems with the technology but the general view was that it became easier to use Twitter with practice. Unfortunately, some teachers were prevented from participating because they could not resolve e-safety issues in their schools. Maybe the successful use of Twitter for educational purposes by other schools will result in a re-examination of attitudes towards this technology.
The farmers were impressed by the intelligent and thought provoking questions asked by pupils. It was seen by teachers as having great potential for teaching and learning. They thought it was a good way to introduce agriculture as a topic and increase pupil involvement in class. Pupils were very enthusiastic to be using Twitter and were very excited when they had immediate responses from the farmers.
Both farmers and teachers would have liked an opportunity to discuss the types of questions that were likely to be asked and when pupils were likely to be using Twitter to ensure that responses could be timely. It may be that if there were many schools wishing be involved a booking system would have to be used to prevent farmers being overwhelmed.
Everyone who was able to participate in the project has said that they would like to be involved again.
So what is Twitter for? The answer is whatever you would like it to be. FACE intends to build on this pilot project which has demonstrated the great educational potential for using social networking technologies as an exciting way to engage with young people in schools about food, farming and the countryside.
Notes:
Farming & Countryside Education (FACE) is an educational charity that helps young people learn about food and farming in a sustainable countryside.
www.face-online.org.uk
With thanks to Janet Hickinbottom from FACE for sending this information through...
Twitter is a social networking website which allows its users to send and read other users’ messages called ‘tweets’. It lets you send a 140 character long message which can be read by anyone but only directly by followers. It was launched in 2006 and since then its growth has been exponential.
Many question what Twitter is for. For some, it is a way of following people who they are interested in – the most popular being Stephen Fry. As a result it has developed a reputation for being trite and insubstantial. However, its immediacy means that it is also a way of hearing news as it happens and increasinly, a way of following topics or asking questions of like-minded people.
Some farmers are beginning to use twitter as a way of communicating with each other and the general public. Despite being popular amonst young people, it has not commonly been used in schools where it has been viewed with great suspicion and its use prevented.
Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) decided that it would be interesting to develop a project that brought farmers and pupils together through Twitter. Having discussed the idea with Alan Parkinson from the Geographical Association an invitation to participate was sent out to farmers and teachers. A group was formed on Twitter which was exclusive to those signing up to the project. Once the farmers and teachers were briefed, a two week slot was set up when pupils would be able to ask questions which the farmers would try to answer. As a pilot, the brief was left open-ended so that we could learn from what worked and what do not work.
There was a slow start to the conversations due to many schools having issues to resolve so that the majority of the first week was spent with the farmers posting comments about their daily life. This in itself was an interesting development. When schools did start to participate, the questions started to appear in ever increasing numbers and the farmers began to reply. The questions varied from how to become a farmer to which aspects of farming were more profitable .
When the twittering had ended, the farmers and teachers were asked their views about the pilot project. Some farmers and teachers had initial problems with the technology but the general view was that it became easier to use Twitter with practice. Unfortunately, some teachers were prevented from participating because they could not resolve e-safety issues in their schools. Maybe the successful use of Twitter for educational purposes by other schools will result in a re-examination of attitudes towards this technology.
The farmers were impressed by the intelligent and thought provoking questions asked by pupils. It was seen by teachers as having great potential for teaching and learning. They thought it was a good way to introduce agriculture as a topic and increase pupil involvement in class. Pupils were very enthusiastic to be using Twitter and were very excited when they had immediate responses from the farmers.
Both farmers and teachers would have liked an opportunity to discuss the types of questions that were likely to be asked and when pupils were likely to be using Twitter to ensure that responses could be timely. It may be that if there were many schools wishing be involved a booking system would have to be used to prevent farmers being overwhelmed.
Everyone who was able to participate in the project has said that they would like to be involved again.
So what is Twitter for? The answer is whatever you would like it to be. FACE intends to build on this pilot project which has demonstrated the great educational potential for using social networking technologies as an exciting way to engage with young people in schools about food, farming and the countryside.
Notes:
Farming & Countryside Education (FACE) is an educational charity that helps young people learn about food and farming in a sustainable countryside.
www.face-online.org.uk
Russia 2018
Anyone want to buy some second-hand England 2018 geography resources ? Hardly used ?
An interesting resource is this movie below: the short movie used as part of the England bid.
Would be good to look at it for cultural / global references... - the power of the brand of some Premiership teams... What are the messages coming across ?
Or how about this one for showing the scale of football in terms of its economic importance to the country, and our culture ?
You can also see the bid movies from the other countries on YouTube... Could be good for comparative work.
An interesting resource is this movie below: the short movie used as part of the England bid.
Would be good to look at it for cultural / global references... - the power of the brand of some Premiership teams... What are the messages coming across ?
Or how about this one for showing the scale of football in terms of its economic importance to the country, and our culture ?
You can also see the bid movies from the other countries on YouTube... Could be good for comparative work.
Rural Land Management and Flood Risk Reduction
Just been looking for some resources on 'resilience', and came across this high-level screencast by Professor Stuart Lane of Durham University.
Useful for 'A' level geographers perhaps...
Another reminder of the wonder that is VIMEO...
Rural Land Management and Flood Risk Reduction from IHRR on Vimeo.
Useful for 'A' level geographers perhaps...
Another reminder of the wonder that is VIMEO...
The Weather: a great teaching idea...
New on the Teachers TV website is a 5 minute programme which gives an idea for teaching about the climate of the rainforest (or adaptable for other natural environments...)
Presented by Stephen Schwab, a member of the GA's Secondary Phase Committee..
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Putting your toe into the water...
A tweet led me on a journey over the last few days...
The original stimulus came via Dan Ellison, a fellow Geography Collective member, who happened to be at the Institute of Education working with some PGCE geographers at the time, introducing them to Mission:Explore.
The tweet was regarding an article in the Independent:
There was a shocking headline that "one in five children has never paddled in the sea".
Leaving aside the issues with a survey like this... they hadn't asked every child for example - there is still an issue here about the access to geographical experiences.
When I was small, we had our annual holiday to Skegness or Bridlington every summer: staying in relatives' caravans just outside Butlin's and having two weeks to build dams on the beach, go on the penny slot machines, stay up late and ride round on bikes. We didn't have a lot of money, but we at least had our taste of the seaside. There was an annual pilgrimage to the coast, which was shared with a lot of other families from South Yorkshire when the steelworks had their "stop weeks".
Why are so many children losing out on this experience ?
The article suggests that it is related to poverty, and quoted a survey carried out by "Save the Children"...
Earlier this year the charity concluded that 1.7 million children, or 13 per cent of them, live in severe poverty. Their parents earn little more than £12,000 a year and many of them live in overcrowded conditions, have to sleep on the floor and go without a winter overcoat.
This would make a sobering enquiry for students to discuss, and research in the run up to Christmas: a time of such conspicuous consumption.
The original stimulus came via Dan Ellison, a fellow Geography Collective member, who happened to be at the Institute of Education working with some PGCE geographers at the time, introducing them to Mission:Explore.
The tweet was regarding an article in the Independent:
There was a shocking headline that "one in five children has never paddled in the sea".
Leaving aside the issues with a survey like this... they hadn't asked every child for example - there is still an issue here about the access to geographical experiences.
When I was small, we had our annual holiday to Skegness or Bridlington every summer: staying in relatives' caravans just outside Butlin's and having two weeks to build dams on the beach, go on the penny slot machines, stay up late and ride round on bikes. We didn't have a lot of money, but we at least had our taste of the seaside. There was an annual pilgrimage to the coast, which was shared with a lot of other families from South Yorkshire when the steelworks had their "stop weeks".
Why are so many children losing out on this experience ?
The article suggests that it is related to poverty, and quoted a survey carried out by "Save the Children"...
Earlier this year the charity concluded that 1.7 million children, or 13 per cent of them, live in severe poverty. Their parents earn little more than £12,000 a year and many of them live in overcrowded conditions, have to sleep on the floor and go without a winter overcoat.
This would make a sobering enquiry for students to discuss, and research in the run up to Christmas: a time of such conspicuous consumption.
Compare and contrast...
In January of this year, we had the classic image of the UK from above, covered with snow...
Image credit
Image courtesy of NASA, MODIS Rapid Response Team.
We now have another image to compare it with....
This one is from the University of Dundee's remote-sensing team, and was shared on the BBC Scotland website (with thanks to @geographicalmag on Twitter for bringing it to my attention)
Image credit
NEODAAS/University of Dundee - taken by TERRA satellite
Spot the difference ?
Image courtesy of NASA, MODIS Rapid Response Team.
We now have another image to compare it with....
This one is from the University of Dundee's remote-sensing team, and was shared on the BBC Scotland website (with thanks to @geographicalmag on Twitter for bringing it to my attention)
Image credit
NEODAAS/University of Dundee - taken by TERRA satellite
Spot the difference ?
Theme Park Geography
Just spending some time today considering the new Peppa Pig World, which is due to open in April 2011
This is as part of an idea for the new Digital Worlds GIS courses that we are running through into 2011.
GIS is often used for locating buildings such as supermarkets, taking into account a range of factors such as:
With a theme park there are similar considerations that can be explored using GIS.
Visitors will presumably be bringing young children, so this is important demographically
Unless (and even if...) there is railway station nearby, the main form of transport used to travel to the theme park will be the car
Other similar attractions could be mapped, to identify possible competition
The site factors could be explored in terms of size, suitability, access etc.
Another new development due for 2011 is Nickelodeon Land, in Blackpool.
This could provide a good context for a curriculum unit, or even a cross-curricular project.
There is also a new Disneyland Paris app for iPhone / iPod touch, which would be useful for those studying this particular theme park with students.
This is as part of an idea for the new Digital Worlds GIS courses that we are running through into 2011.
GIS is often used for locating buildings such as supermarkets, taking into account a range of factors such as:
- competition from other supermarkets
- demographic profile of areas
- transport routes and delivery costs
- site factors: size, accessibility
- history of local opposition to developments / support for job creation
- availability of grants due to existing regeneration plans etc...
With a theme park there are similar considerations that can be explored using GIS.
Visitors will presumably be bringing young children, so this is important demographically
Unless (and even if...) there is railway station nearby, the main form of transport used to travel to the theme park will be the car
Other similar attractions could be mapped, to identify possible competition
The site factors could be explored in terms of size, suitability, access etc.
Another new development due for 2011 is Nickelodeon Land, in Blackpool.
This could provide a good context for a curriculum unit, or even a cross-curricular project.
There is also a new Disneyland Paris app for iPhone / iPod touch, which would be useful for those studying this particular theme park with students.
David Lambert at the SSAT Conference #nc10
David Lambert gave a keynote lecture to the 2010 SSAT annual conference on Friday 26 November.
He addressed round 1500 school leaders on the question: are subjects in crisis?
Obviously he focussed on geography and made some positive remarks about the recent White Paper The Importance of Teaching and its intention to recentre the school curriculum on 'knowledge'.
You can see a video of David's lecture on the SSAT website (take a look at Dylan Wiliam's session while you're there....)
The slides that David used (you might want to listen to the presentation while watching the slides, or put them side by side on the screen...) are available via SLIDESHARE... and have been embedded below...
November 2010 SSAT Presentation
View more presentations from GeoBlogs.
If you're snowbound today & your school is closed take a look...
Think of it as a little impromptu CPD
If you're snowbound today & your school is closed take a look...
Think of it as a little impromptu CPD
Geography: the world subject, will take you into the world of work...
A nice article in The Independent today on the value of geography as a subject when it comes to finding a job.
You can read the original article HERE.
Some useful background to the slow growth in the popularity of geography and the quality of teaching (helped by the Action Plan for Geography potentially ?), and the letter from Michael Palin sent out by the RGS-IBG earlier in the year; also some quotes from people who have found their geography course useful...
Listen to Lucy Gosling, a geography graduate from East Anglia now assessing flood risks in new buildings with the Environment Agency."Today's new developments could be around for 100 years so we need to ensure they're sustainable in terms of flood risk, and geography's at the heart of this," she says.
You can read the original article HERE.
Listen to Lucy Gosling, a geography graduate from East Anglia now assessing flood risks in new buildings with the Environment Agency."Today's new developments could be around for 100 years so we need to ensure they're sustainable in terms of flood risk, and geography's at the heart of this," she says.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
The wrong kind of snow ?
Solly Street is the home of the Geographical Association.
Despite well over a foot of snow, the hardy staff at the GA made it to work this morning (although I was working from home myself...)
Here are a few pictures of Solly Street, taken by Ruth Totterdell on her intrepid journey through the snow this morning...
Despite well over a foot of snow, the hardy staff at the GA made it to work this morning (although I was working from home myself...)
Here are a few pictures of Solly Street, taken by Ruth Totterdell on her intrepid journey through the snow this morning...
"The Wrong Kind of Snow" is also the title of the first of a series of daily blog posts that I'm writing for the HODDER GEOGRAPHY NEST in the run-up to Christmas. Check them out....
They are aimed at providing a #geoadvent resource for those teaching about wintry weather in the run up to Christmas. I imagine that many geography departments will be teaching about the snow and its impacts. This could well become a traditional part of the curriculum around this time of year. Plenty of curriculum making potential...
For example here's another very nice #geoadvent calendar on the theme of SUSTAINABILITY, based around a Worldmapper image.
The BBC has an interesting article on our relationship with snow.
There is also a good article on surviving the extreme cold in Siberia, including a remarkable demonstration of just how cold it is, which involves a pan of hot water.
Read the article and watch the video here.
If you have another geography story which is related to the month of December, please get in touch, or tweet it with the tag #geoadvent and we'll follow it up and feature the best ones in future blog posts...
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