Goodbye 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Author Archive
Giants causeway
Sunday, November 27th, 2011A short film from Natural History Museum Ireland depicting the formation of Irelands Giants Causeway, which I’ll be making use of this year…
World at 7 billion
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Some lesson ideas I wrote for Boardworks a couple of weeks ago, scroll down the page.
Using ideas for twitter…
Sunday, November 27th, 2011Great little video from @Nick_Chater , with a star appearance 
Teaching about weather systems
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Finding Old Harry…
Sunday, November 20th, 2011Had a little fun using the Google Search Stories Creator to produce this…
New Year, New Geography FM…
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Tradition, it’s over two years now, states that Geography FM meets begin after the October half-term, hopefully now everyone is settled into a routine.
The meetings are always informal and it’s a useful opportunity to chat and share Geography ideas with a number of people, it’s a great source of professional development- and free…
The next meeting is 3rd of November 2011. Feel free to join us, all experiences and viewpoints are welcome.
If you’re new to the meets just request access on the front page, I’ll then give you permission and you can edit the meeting page and Wiki. All you then need to do is turn up… if you’re shy you don’t need to use a webcam or microphone, stay quiet or pass opinions/comments in the chat 
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Use Boardworks in your teaching…
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011and fancy writing a lesson plan for them? Read below a message from Ros White.
Given the inspiring feedback we’ve received from teachers over the years we are now looking for practising teachers who enjoy using Boardworks resources to work with us to write lesson plans about the interesting ways they use Boardworks material in their lessons.
Perhaps there is a particular lesson that you find your students respond well to, or you may have an example of how you’ve successfully tackled a difficult topic in your subject? It’s entirely up to you.
The lesson plan should be approximately 300-500 words and cover material you already teach with, so we wouldn’t expect you to spend more than an hour or so working on this. For every lesson plan we use we’ll pay £50.
An example of just one of the great lesson plans we’ve received already for a Geography lesson can be found here: http://www.boardworks.co.uk/geography_704.
We also accept lesson plans across all subject areas, so if you’re interested in sharing one of your lesson plans with other teachers or would like some more information then please get in contact with me, Ros White, at ros.white@boardworks.co.uk and I’ll be happy to fill you in on the details.
Teach in Derbyshire?
Monday, October 24th, 2011If you teach Geography in Derbyshire please drop me a comment or email…
Castleton thanks…
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011We were conducting fieldwork in Castleton today. If you were approached by a strange teacher asking for your work booklet, it was me! Thanks for sharing your practice.
Apart from visiting Peak Cavern we were taking velocity readings in Edale… I imagine they were higher than normal today.
