A new role is available at the RGS coordinating work on the #ChooseGeography campaign, as part of the Education team. Do you have a strong interest in geography and inspiring students to pursue it? This new role within our Education Team may be the perfect fit for you. We're searching for a driven and proactive Coordinator to deliver our Choose Geography programme ? https://t.co/nw1Zaqllcy — Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (@RGS_IBG) May 8, 2024 Find out more here. #ChooseGeography is also the theme of this year's Young Geographer of the Year competition ..read more

A cross posting from my new GCSE Natural History blog which has now passed three hundred posts in preparation for the arrival of this new specification. Merlin ID is a rather good new free app which is ideal for anyone who wants to know what birds they are listening to. Download the app to begin with. When you are out on a walk, choose SOUND ID and press the green button. Merlin identifies bird sounds using breakthroughs in machine learning technology to recognize species based on spectrograms—visual representations of sounds. For Merlin to learn to recognize a species by sound, we use audio ..read more

A new game linked to sea level.  Expedition Sea Level! A new time travel game about #SeaLevelRise, #glacier and #ice sheet melting Play here --> https://t.co/91BjiU8Ogw Created for our sea level project @ProtectSlr — Prof Tamsin Edwards (@flimsin) May 6, 2024 Expedition Sea Level – a time travel to unveil the mysteries of sea level rise : becoming an actor of climate change is a numerical interactive activity designed as a game for middle school students (11 – 15 years old) to learn the links between sea level rise, the melt of glaciers and ice sheets, and human activities. This i ..read more

I'm looking forward to reading the new book: 'Hedgelands'. We are now in National Hedgerow Week as it stands. Great to see an article on why hedgerows are important in the Big Issue! Don't forget National Hedgerow Week starts next week, get ready! #NHW #NationalHedgerowWeek24 ? ? pic.twitter.com/MCleiuQWY4 — The Tree Council (@TheTreeCouncil) April 29, 2024 The article in The Big Issue is important to catch up with. Why not buy your own copy of the latest issue.  I try to pick one up from vendors in Ely or Norwich. There's a great opening to that piece which sums up why hedgerows are ..read more

It's important to check out any art in your local area, particularly when it's site-specific art. I'm fortunate to be able to visit Ely Cathedral regularly. At the moment, there is an exhibition of sculptures from Sean Henry.  I'm going to enjoy encountering these artworks numerous times over the coming months of the summer term. It's called 'Am I my brother's keeper?'. They are all figures of different scales made from a range of materials. Sean Henry says “I am very excited to be exhibiting my sculptures in and around the ancient space of Ely Cathedral and grateful for the opportunity ..read more

Back in the day, Tony Cassidy produced some excellent resources linked to the Eurovision song contest, exploring the way that certain countries would generally vote for each other because of their geopolitical connections.  This was a more gentle time. Eurovision is coming up soon. Steve Brace contributed a piece to the TES on Eurovision. As the @tes says "the @Eurovision glamfest presents learning opportunities for #geography lessons" 4 ideas for #geographyteachers classrooms below https://t.co/x2Uytckm7E — Steve Brace (@SteveBraceGeog) May 1, 2024 David Morgan has tweaked some maps f ..read more

Sinking Cities is a new resource from the RGS-IBG schools team. It talks about the threats facing a number of cities from the extraction of groundwater, rising sea levels and other factors. Worth checking out this, and the other resources from the Education team ..read more

A new podcast for the Bank Holiday weekend. ?☕️??️Kit Marie is joined by @hermionemiao, for a special mash-up between @CoffeeGeogPod and 'Mapping Inspirational Women' @GeogEdu4! You can *watch* this discussion between Hermione and Kit Marie over on YouTube! https://t.co/HsT0QM9GrG or head over to https://t.co/SDkQP39s7g pic.twitter.com/tlXFZqedK0 — Coffee & Geography (@CoffeeGeogPod) May 4, 2024 ..read more

This was another one of those things that I came across via a circuitous route. Read the article here. Duffy, A. (2019), “Two-way street: how smartphones and the social web impact the traveller’s liminal gaze”, Mobile Media and Communication, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 60-75, doi: 10.1177/2050157918772858. Read more on this in a journal article here. It explores how smartphones change the way that travellers experience places. This is worth considering with students ..read more

 May the Fourth, and the Ordnance Survey has created a map of locations where Star Wars scenes were filmed ..read more