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Enrichment
Podcast Recommendation - Reasons to be Cheerful: How to Talk to a Climate Change Denier
One of the things I miss now that I am working from home is listening to podcasts as I drove to and from school, so this week I decided it was time to catch up with some episodes of one of my...
Forces for Change – Bank of Dave
My Year 12 “wider reading” recommendation for Changing Places this week was simple and straightforward. Go on Netflix and watch ‘Bank of Dave’. I watched it myself on Sunday afternoon and it was a...
Trouble at'Mill
“Daddy, it looks like a monster has come down and taken a bite out of that building” was the comment from my son as we drove past the site of the Lily Mill in Shaw, in Oldham last week. He was...
TV recommendation: Travel Man - 96 hours in Rio
Many of you will study Rio de Janeiro as your NEE city case study - with many students focusing too heavily on the negative side to life in Rio, particularly in terms of the favelas.
TV recommendation: How to Survive a Dictator with Munya Chawawa
The blurb from All4 - 'Munya goes on a journey exploring the life of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, one of the world's most notorious tyrants, looking for the man behind the monster'.
Festive A-Level Geography Quizzes
Fabulous free downloads, these two Christmas quizzes are based on core topics taught for the AQA specification (W&CC, GS&GG) – but would suit any A-Level Geography classroom in need of a...
The Big GCSE Geography Festive Challenge
Here is our eagerly awaited GCSE Geography Christmas Quiz - it contains loads of our fab festive templates and is a mixture of general geography questions, with a few activities geared towards the...
Can’t See the Wood for The Trees: Rethinking Rainforest Sustainability
Today, the tropical rainforest ecosystem is home to half the living species on this planet while only covering about 5% of the Earth’s surface. And yet, go back a few thousand years it is thought...
EastEnders Under Water!
Last night's EastEnders credits showed how melting ice caps may impact London with the Thames bursting its banks. The eye-opening scene aired as a way to mark the final episode of Frozen Planet II,...
Podcast recommendation: Reasons to be Cheerful - David and Goliath
This brilliant episode of Reasons to be Cheerful speaks to the law firm that's taken collective action for over 200,000 victims in Brazil affected by the Mariana Dam collapse in 2015
Podcast recommendation: The Future of Food - How to Achieve Radical Change with George Monbiot
Farming is one of the most damaging industries in the world. How can we develop healthier, cheaper and less damaging versions of familiar and accepted foods?
Video recommendation: Why are there no bridges in East London?
This entertaining and informative video explores why there are no bridges in East London - great for looking at inequality between the poorer boroughs of East London and the more affluent boroughs...
Geography Podcast Recommendation - Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
This superb weekly podcast explore the ideas, people and movements solving the biggest challenges facing society and the environment - and is a must for any geography teacher (and student!)
39 Ways to Save the Planet
A new BBC podcast series has been launched and seems perfect for students and teachers wanting to enrich their understanding of environmental challenges and opportunities.
Meet the man turning cities into giant sponges
A superb short video from the World Economic Forum on the work and ideas of one man in trying to reduce the risks of floods in urban environments.
The Globalization Debate (- yes, really; as a debate: Has it gone too far?)
In this 37 minute video from Bloomberg News, Stephanie Flanders (former BBC economics editor, now chief economics strategist for JP Morgan) hosts a debate of the New Economic Forum on the question:...
Living in Haiti's colourful slum city
A fantastic case study here from the BBC website
The race to understand Antarctica
The FT joins scientists and geographers from the British Antarctic Survey researching the fast-changing environment of Antarctica.
Is human health at risk in the Anthropocene?
Here is the lecture given by Sir Andrew Haines at the Oxford Martin School in March 2018. Since the start of the Anthropocene period – the geological epoch marked by humankind’s impact on the...
Mapping company identifies the real locations of the UKs largest cities.
Do most people know where the exact centre of their city lies?
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