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GetOutside Day Competition

on September 29, 2018

#GetOutside #GetOutsideChampion #GetOutsideDay GetOutside

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I want to GetOutside like Common People

on September 29, 2018

#CommonsWeek #GetOutsideChampion #GetOutsideDay Common Land Commons Get Outside Get Outside Champion 2018 Landscape Photography Norfolk Photography

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Carding Mill Valley

on September 29, 2018

Carding Mill Valley Field Studies Council Fieldwork King's Ely Geography Shropshire

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Go... Microsoft's Surface for Education

on September 29, 2018

Microsoft Microsoft Surface Surface Go Tablets for Education Trials

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Fashion Revolution film award

on September 27, 2018

#whomademyclothes Fashion Fashion Revolution Fashion Revolution Week

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Exploration is part of the human condition

on September 27, 2018

Benedict Allen Exploration

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World Tourism Day

on September 27, 2018

#WorldTourismDay Better World Detectives Tourism Tui World Tourism Day

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A philosophy of travel

on September 27, 2018

Reading Tourism Travel and Tourism World Traveller

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Happy 20th birthday to Google

on September 27, 2018

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Gloucester Network Meeting

on September 26, 2018

CPD Emma Espley Network Meeting

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Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book

on September 26, 2018

Book Ordnance Survey Puzzles Quiz

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The UK in 100 Seconds - behind the scenes...

on September 26, 2018

Daniel Raven Ellison The UK in 100 Seconds

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The UK in 100 seconds

on September 26, 2018

ESRI StoryMap ESRI UK StoryMap The UK in 100 Seconds UK in 100 Seconds

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Discovering the Arctic

on September 25, 2018

Arctic Discovering the Arctic Pole to Pole Royal Geographical Society YGOTY

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The UK in 100 seconds

on September 25, 2018

Daniel Raven Ellison Friends of the Earth The UK in 100 Seconds UK in 100 Seconds

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Interactive map of PGI foods

on September 24, 2018

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New feature in the OS Maps app

on September 24, 2018

'Augmented Reality' #GetOutside #GetOutsideChampions #GetOutsideDay AR Augmented Reality Maps. OS Maps Ordnance Survey OS Maps App

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Tomorrow....

on September 23, 2018

Daniel Raven Ellison Friends of the Earth Land Use Landscape The UK in 100 Seconds

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Where does your Smartphone come from?

on September 23, 2018

Geography of my Stuff Smartphones The Economist

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Detectorists at the RGS-IBG

on September 23, 2018

Conference Detectorists Jo Norcup Landscapes RGS-IBG RGS-IBG Conference Sense of Place

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I would walk 500 miles...

on September 23, 2018

#GetOutsideDay #walk1000miles 1000 Miles Walk 1000 Miles

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Geography Geek Facebook page

on September 23, 2018

Geography Geek Helen Young

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Michael Palin on Erebus

on September 23, 2018

Antarctica Arctic HMS Erebus Michael Palin Royal Geographical Society

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Tokyo - seamless video

on September 22, 2018

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Champions activity update

on September 22, 2018

#GetOutside #GetOutsideChampions Activities CPD Get Outside Champion 2018 Ordnance Survey

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Greater London National Park T-shirts

on September 22, 2018

Greater London National Park National Park T-shirts

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Thought for the Day

on September 22, 2018

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Critical Thinking for Achievement

on September 22, 2018

CPD Critical Geographies Critical Thinking GA CPD Geographical Association TLIF

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NQTs and student colleagues wanted for the GA Conference 2019

on September 19, 2018

CPD GA Conference 2019 NQT Teacher to Teacher

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The wettest water...

on September 19, 2018

Hurricane Florence Hurricanes

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Bravo to OB

on September 19, 2018

King's Ely Geography Lego Lego Education Ludic pedagogy Ollie Bray Play Playful learning

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Hurricane Florence tracking map

on September 18, 2018

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Which is your favourite National Park?

on September 18, 2018

Mentimeter National Parks

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Japan Foundation CPD event

on September 16, 2018

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Boris doing fieldwork?

on September 16, 2018

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Tampa Bay Disaster Readiness Map

on September 16, 2018

Disaster Risk Reduction Florida Hurricanes Natural Disasters StoryMap Tropical Storms

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UK 'Food Security'

on September 16, 2018

Agriculture Brexit Food Food for Thought Food Security Jay Rayner UK Food You are what you eat

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The Prince's Teaching Institute Geography Day

on September 15, 2018

CPD The Prince's Teaching Institute

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Scotland's interactive coastal litter project

on September 15, 2018

Litter Mapping Ocean Plastics Scotland

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Teachmeet Wellbeing Icons

on September 15, 2018

CPD Mrs Humanities Teachmeet Wellbeing Wellbeing Icons

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Hurricane Florence visualisation

on September 15, 2018

Hurricane Florence Hurricanes Tropical Storms

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Volume 4 of Impact: Curriculum Focus

on September 14, 2018

Chartered College of Teaching Christine Counsell Curriculum Curriculum Making David Lambert GeoCapabilities Michael Young Powerful Knowledge

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Moving on

on September 14, 2018

Global Migration Migration The Guardian

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River Severn - Gaugemap

on September 14, 2018

GaugeMap River Severn Rivers

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Birmingham - an economic hub

on September 14, 2018

Birmingham Economic Hubs Year 11

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Ludlow

on September 14, 2018

Economic Hubs Food Tourism Ludlow

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TUI Better World Detectives - the Secondary version

on September 13, 2018

Better World Detectives Primary Resources Secondary Sustainability Sustainable Tourism Tui

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New GA Magazine

on September 13, 2018

#125GA GA GA CPD GA Magazine OFSTED Webwatch

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Nick Crane on our 'inner geographer'

on September 13, 2018

Nicholas Crane RGS Awards RGS-IBG

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Mark Enser's rED18 talk

on September 13, 2018

Mark Enser Pedagogy Teaching

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Countryfile Rambles - one is in Ely

on September 13, 2018

Children in Need Countryfile Ellie Harrison Ely

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New hi-resolution map of Antarctica

on September 12, 2018

Antarctica Mapping

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Maxim Peter Griffin's landscapes

on September 12, 2018

Adventure Landscapes Art and Landscape Crowdsourcing Landscape Maxim Peter Griffin Unbound

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Sock it to them...

on September 12, 2018

Clothing Conscious Steps Environment Sustainability

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Former pupils #1: Lucy Verasamy

on September 11, 2018

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Landfill - Tim Dee

on September 10, 2018

Consumers Consumption Cultural Landscape Landfill Stuff Tim Dee

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Digital Explorer becomes Explorer Edu

on September 10, 2018

Arctic Live Digital Explorer Digital Oceans Encounter Edu Jamie Buchanan Dunlop Ocean Plastics Oceans Oceans Academy

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Coming in 2019

on September 10, 2018

Book How to teach Geography Writing

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