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Richard Allaway

@richardallaway.bsky.social

Teacher, Geographer, Resource creator @ https://www.geographyalltheway.com and Learning Technologist. More here → https://www.richardallaway.me/.

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Big update to 3.1.5 Energy

28.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Financial Times - School geography class: Chile’s plummeting births take fertility rate below Japan’s

21.09.2025 05:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Added Toronto Dot Density Map to Geographic skills.

14.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3.1.4 The availability and consumption of water, land and food updated with some new visual stimulus.

07.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Financial Times - Schools IB geography class: Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon

31.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Financial Times - Schools IB geography class. Africa’s energy inequality: the challenge of bringing affordable, reliable access.

25.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Added Create custom elevation profiles with National Geographic MapMaker Sketch tools to Geographic skills.

07.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ee.1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments updated to increase the focus on the detailed examples.

07.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3.1.1 Poverty reduction checked and updated with more recent statistical sets and focused exam-style questions.

07.08.2025 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Financial Times - Schools IB DP Geography class: Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US - useful for Unit 4 of the #ibgeog course.

06.05.2025 06:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Threats and Impacts of Coral Reef loss and destruction - Coral Reefs Part 4 Threats to coral reefs can be natural or anthropogenic. Although the natural threats are outlined below, the main focus of this article will be the anthropogenic threats. Natural Threats to Coral Reef...

Threats to coral reefs

www.trtomsgeoinsights.com/post/threats...

04.05.2025 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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IB Geography class: Britain boosts electricity exports to France because of high winds Global resource consumption

Useful for Unit 3 and a bit of interconnectedness →

www.ft.com/content/d0c9...

#IBGeog

27.01.2025 06:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IB Geography class: How climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map Global climate vulnerability

Useful article for #IBGeog Unit 2

www.ft.com/content/1619...

06.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Connect with @leonfurze.com to start with.

06.01.2025 04:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Danube warming up Climate change, dead mussels and power plants turned down

Useful for #IBGeog Unit 2 with links to Freshwater.

atlo.team/wp-content/u...

04.01.2025 09:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Graphic, with a photo from Morocco in the background, advertising Issue 51 of the 'How do you know what you don't know?' newsletter.

Graphic, with a photo from Morocco in the background, advertising Issue 51 of the 'How do you know what you don't know?' newsletter.

Back to trying to write a monthly newsletter → geographyalltheway.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

03.01.2025 20:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
International Geography .training

Still time to sign up to the first workshop www.internationalgeography.training

02.01.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy New Year - please subscribe to my new Substack newsletter 2025 is a time to take stock. We are a quarter of the way through the century, and the last few years have been a bit of a roller coaster ri...

New Substack for the new year - please subscribe to my new weekly newsletter livinggeography.blogspot.com/2024/12/happ...

01.01.2025 19:45 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
Graphic advertising for the 'Making it matter for your students' workshop from International Geography .training

Graphic advertising for the 'Making it matter for your students' workshop from International Geography .training

@geographypods.bsky.social and I are delivering the first workshop on the 18th of this month!

It is happening, and we already have participants from across the globe.

Join us online for a focused session on ensuring the geography matters to your students.

www.internationalgeography.training

02.01.2025 08:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Useful for #IBGeog - Leisure, Tourism and Sport.

24.12.2024 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CALLING ALL CONTENT CREATORS📸

Based in the UK and passionate about walking? Love creating outdoorsy content for social media? Fancy helping us spread the word about our mission to create a national network of walking routes across the UK? If this sounds like you drop us a follow and comment below!

24.12.2024 08:56 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
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The Big Christmas Geography Quiz 2024 | Discover the World Education A quiz perfect for the end of term, Discover Education's popular Big Christmas Geography 2024 Quiz is now here!

FREE QUIZ + a prize for your classroom👀

Test your students’ knowledge with the BIG Christmas Geography Quiz created by our team of former geography teachers plus guest rounds.

Enjoy 8 rounds inspired by the curriculum including topics 🔗 www.discover-the-world.com/study-trips/...

Good luck!

02.12.2024 14:33 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Geography class Read a selection of FT articles picked by our teacher advisers

FT for Schools have done a great job categorising recently recommended A level articles under topic headings.

Mainly based on OCR spec but crossovers with AQA. Useful for students looking to extend their knowledge and all free through the FT Schools scheme.

www.ft.com/content/e2d2...

#geogchat

02.12.2024 20:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Fantastic read & loads of great links to IB Geography Core/ Food & Health. Can see new ideas for Urban fieldwork - safety in urban areas, accessibility & design of green spaces.
#ibgeography #geographychat

15.08.2024 07:04 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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IB Geography class: How the car industry is exposed to Donald Trump’s tariffs Human Development and Diversity

Useful @financialtimes.com article for #IBGeog Unit 5.

www.ft.com/content/b4f9...

02.12.2024 05:16 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New for IB DP and IGCSE teachers www.internationalgeography.training

01.12.2024 16:14 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
A black and white photo of Matt Podbury and Richard Allaway smiling.

A black and white photo of Matt Podbury and Richard Allaway smiling.

Many great partnerships have existed throughout history – Lennon and McCartney, cheese and onion, Laurel and Hardy, and now Allaway and Podbury!

@geographypods.bsky.social and I are joining forces to offer online training for international geography educators → www.internationalgeography.training

01.12.2024 15:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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E-waste: Burning old TVs - the toxic trade in electrical waste People around the world are extracting valuable materials from e-waste despite huge health risks.

Useful #IBGeog #GeographyTeacher article for Unit 3.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

01.12.2024 07:47 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

@rob-geog.bsky.social - if I can help in any way, please let me know.

28.11.2024 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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