Rachel Hawke

The GA’s Summer Map Makers - Geographical Association Encourage your students to get involved in being a Summer Map Maker, and be featured in our first collection of treasure maps...

This summer @geographicalassoc.bsky.social 's asking children to pick a 'local treasure' & draw a map to it from their home inc local landmarks

It might be a swing in the park, a friend or granny's house, local shop or something else you treasure.

Full info ⤵️
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The challenges and rewards of being a school-based geography mentor - The GA Blog Vicki Pountney, Emma Rawlings Smith and Chris Powell ask six geography mentors about the rewards and challenges of mentoring student teachers.

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I will never regret moving to Devon 💙 😎

A bit of Geography at bedtime 🌎 🌍 🌏

Amazing!

One thing I've noticed from my review of the department this term is that students are unclear as to what they need to do to improve. So post mocks Y10s today, colour coded the exam qs to identify areas of improvement.

*Free event for Geography teachers in the Exeter area. Networking, coffee, listening to the brilliant @mattmattfinn.bsky.social* Sign up using the QR code

Happy to chat schools etc if you are thinking about Devon

I live in Devon and it's brilliant! Still close enough to London (2hr30 on train) but you have the coast and Dartmoor. Plus Cornwall is a day trip. Love Devon ❤️

This rings a distant bell that I might have done but a long time ago. I think we did a short speech they had to write first and then present to the class

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Well this looks *very* exciting for us geographers with an Iceland obsession www.waterstones.com/book/always-...

Walk up a hill with a view

Y11 spent some time today analysing an 8 mark exam question. They used three colours to spot the key criteria and examiner would look for: chains of reasoning, key terms and TLAG (thinking like a geographer) 🤔

This was my charity shop haul inspired by @fiona-sheriff.bsky.social 📚🌍

Fieldwork yesterday was ☀️ 💙

This is my a. Best view from a playground b. The best geographical addition to a playground 🌧

Global Issues in Geography Education A Working Group/Hub of Expertise (South West) A working group is planned (following many, many conversations!) to create, develop and share resources, expertise and ideas for the teaching of global geographical issues—including development geogra...

Very excited to be sharing this: A working group is planned (following many conversations! @geographicalassoc.bsky.social ) to share expertise and ideas for the teaching of global geographical issues. To learn more and join us, link here:
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#GAConf25
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This is my tree Carbon calculator that I shared at my talk. #GAConf25 🌳
Have a go! Good for in the field crunching.

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Really enjoyed your session today 🌳

Had to skip in and out of the GA public lecture this evening for the bedtime routine, but *so* worth it to see @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social in action. What a start to the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conference and buzzing for tomorrow 👏 #GAConf25

A fab first GA Worldwise Quiz for the Exeter GA branch with some tough questions. Congratulations to Chulmleigh, who were our inaugural winners! 🏆🥇🗺 🤓

Geography educators last week to book tickets for the GA conference! Keynote on Thursday will be Paras Chandaria who is coming from Nairobi just to deliver this lecture on Nairobi National Park, a place close to his heart. Book tickets here geography.org.uk/events-cpd/g...

geographyteachers, you have 2 weeks to get your @The_GA conference tickets booked! We have a great variety of sessions on the theme of connected geographies. Starting us off will be the public lecture from @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social. very excited for this one!

We refer to Nigeria earlier in Y9 but don't teach it again later. I'd love to get to the stage where they do something similar for a range of key countries across the continents.

We have an assessment week where students need to work in silence after they've finished their assessment. And their general knowledge about countries is so poor that I thought a profile like this would begin to improve it. The postcard is part of their extension task.

I was *so* delighted that a Y9 student chose to write her postcard about Nigeria in her native language of Yoruba. It showed just how important it is that we include the voices of people from the countries we teach. Esp as I made such a rookie error with the national dish 🤦🏼‍♀️ (Now corrected)

If you teach at a school in or near Exeter, let us know if you'd like to join the GA Worldwise Quiz we are running on 26th March. Details in the picture attached 📸 (click to see more) 🌍🌏🌎 🤓❓️📝

Child Migrant Stories Child Migrant Stories is a space to explore the lived experiences of child migrants who migrated to the UK, under the age of 18, from 1930 to the present day.

Discovered this fantastic resource yesterday when looking for stories of real people who have migrated to the UK for a Y7 lesson. Next week, students will be drawing the key parts of Nurul's story while listening to it. They will then describe to their partners childmigrantstories.com

Understanding Climate Change: Resources for Education (2025 Update) 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.

Climate science and related disciplines (like social & economic science on climate change impacts & solutions) is constantly envolving. Here are some new and updated resources to give your teaching and learning up to date #ClimateChange #GeographyTeacher

Really try to build up the knowledge of our students so Y11 geographers all now have their own set of flashcards to take home. Reducing the cognitive load and providing them with the correct knowledge based on wording from the spec #eduqasb #gcsegeography