The Life Geographic: A somewhat self-absorbed personal and professional development blog of an ex-Geography high-school teacher…
The climate crisis is a safeguarding issue. Geography teachers are on the front line. My new chapter in 'What is Geography Teaching, Now?' is out now. I explore how we can move beyond teaching dire facts to become storytellers and enablers for a generation facing eco-anxiety. Discover the simple language shift that empowers students and explore my free interactive framework for building climate literacy.
A transition to a free subscription model for educational resources to sustainably create free learning materials. Subscribing costs nothing and allows access to popular guides. This change aims to enhance understanding of the audience and support ongoing production of high-quality content while existing free posts remain accessible.
The toolkit 'Linking education setting statutory documents and approaches to Climate Action Plans' enables schools to integrate Climate Action Plans with statutory policies effectively. It offers activities, checklists, and templates to embed sustainability into school operations, enhancing accountability and facilitating compliance with Department for Education requirements.
Climate change isn’t abstract. It’s a silent shout in blue and red. The stripes don’t lie: we’re running hot. Lighten the shade. #ShowYourStripesDay #CoffeeGeogPod 🌍 Your stripe matters.
Climate science and related disciplines (like social and economic science on climate change impacts and solutions) is constantly envolving. Back in 2020, I was comissioned by the Geographical Association to produced some member-access resources, with some minor updates for 2022. A lot happens in just three years when it comes to the issue of climate change, and while those GA resources are still relevant and useful, recently commissioned work has compelled me to update some of those resources and create some new ones.
This mini-series offers teaching ideas for using Carbon Brief's Extreme Weather Attribution Interactive Map. This post contains a set of resources giving guidance for researching and writing about selected case studies.
This mini-series offers teaching ideas for using Carbon Brief's Extreme Weather Attribution Interactive Map, focusing on climate change's effects on extreme weather. Part 1 is a resource to guide learners through analysing data trends in extreme events like heat, storms, and droughts using spreadsheet apps like Google Sheets.
A couple of weeks ago I gave my reasons for leaving 'X' (Twitter), despite the fact that I have cultivated so many useful teaching tid-bits, useful links and resources and insights from colleagues. For me, staying on that platform is akin to continue banking with a finance insitution that invests my money into weapons of war or fossil fuel endeavours... but I can understand way folks might stay put due to the lack of choice or losing access to such a resource bank. However, you can have your cake and eat it... well, mostly. You'll be able to jump-ship and still retain most of what you had.
This article was co-authored with Catherine Walker and Nerida Jolley. You can read the introduction here, and then continue with the rest of the article, for free, via the University of Manchester's website here. One of Maisy Summer’s beautiful images for the YPAC creative book How can climate change education address rather than exacerbate eco-anxiety, … Continue reading Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education
National Geographic Kids Everything: Sustainable Energy is available now! Some ideas and concepts didn't make it into the final draft of the book, or they were edited in a way to make them more accessible to a younger audience (while the original is still very much useful for the older kids!). So to celebrate the official release date of the book, I offer up some 'bonus extras' for you!
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