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Time for fieldwork: four geographical days on the Jurassic Coast

June 27, 2017June 27, 2017Oxford Geography Team
Durdle Door

“Fieldwork makes geography come to life, puts everything into context in glorious 3D and helps students really grasp how geography literally shapes the world around us.” Kate Humble, BBC Springwatch presenter (taken from Parkinson, 2009) It doesn’t take long to persuade a geography teacher of the benefits of fieldwork and even less time to encourage […]

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What to do if you’ve got the GIS-t of GIS…

May 26, 2017Oxford Geography Team
Students working with tablet

Firstly…good news! As part of their not-for-profit work, Esri UK has recently announced that a school subscription to ArcGIS Online will now be free! So now that you have no excuse for leaving GIS out of your Schemes of Work, here are a couple of exciting and innovative ways you can use the software with your classes […]

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Another side to the Land of Fire and Ice

May 2, 2017April 25, 2017Oxford Geography Team
Krafla geothermal power station in northern Iceland

It seemed like every geography teacher that I knew had visited Iceland – apart from me. Finally, this Easter holiday, I got my turn to visit this geographer’s paradise. Along with my sixth form geographers, I went on a 5 day tour of South Iceland to marvel at the glaciers, waterfalls, volcanos and dynamic coastlines. […]

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Fieldwork at GCSE is changing – how, and what are the implications?

May 27, 2016May 31, 2016Oxford Geography Team
KS3 students conducting a survey

Not everyone will be mourning the end of controlled assessment for GCSE geography. But its demise doesn’t mean fieldwork has come to an end – in fact, it may have been strengthened. Fieldwork for GCSE: is worth 15% of the overall mark will be assessed in the terminal exam must be carried out on at least […]

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Boosting the profile of your geography department

November 30, 2015September 26, 2017Oxford Geography Team

There is no doubt that the profile of geography is in rude health: geography is the “must-have A level” according to an article in The Guardian last August and reports from the Royal Geographical Society show that geography is now the 8th most popular subject at A level (having seen the largest increase in entries of any subject in […]

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