Category: Subject Knowledge
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Inspirational Physical Geographers #2: Alfred Wegener
When teaching about tectonic processes to your students it is likely you will have mentioned Alfred Wegener. Perhaps you have taught about the ‘mystery’ of why the continents appear to fit together, or how fossils of animals and plants have been found on different continents that wouldn’t ordinarily have been found together, thus suggesting that…
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Water is everywhere : the really deep water cycle
“Plate tectonics is part of the water cycle” Excuse me…did you say that plate tectonics is part of the water cycle? Yes, I did…..read on and let me explain how, and also why it should and could be incorporated into your geography teaching. This is not as tricky as you might think; it will just…
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Misconceiving Physical Geography
Some misconceptions (or ‘alternative conceptions’) are a legacy of past knowledge and ways of understanding the world that are no longer valid, i.e. replaced by new ideas that make better sense of evidence (old and new). However the old ideas have such inertia that they linger in seemingly ‘authoritative’ sources (textbooks, videos or online), and…