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#GAConf24 – Geoanimations
The attached handout is being shared courtesy of Gotze Kalsbeek (University of Amsterdam) for his session at the 2024 GA Conference. Gotze has produced a series of ‘Geoanimations’ for Geography teachers to use in lessons. Here is a link to the HTML version of his plate tectonics animation: https://lesmateriaal.geobronnen.com/interactievegeoanimaties/platentektoniek_doorsnee_aarde_engels.html
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Inspirational Physical Geographers
This is a series of short blogs we will be posting, and the title surely gives away what it’s all about! Physical geographers have always found the Earth’s natural features, systems and processes fascinating. They have always possessed an enthusiasm for, and curiosity about, the physical world that ensures we have the knowledge, explanations and…
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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(or ‘alternative conceptions’) are a legacy of past knowledge and ways of understanding the world that are no longer valid, i.e. replaced by new ideas that make better sense of evidence (old and new).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…
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Professor Chris King, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience Education, Keele University, 1949–2022. A tribute.
By Duncan Hawley and John Lyon. Here is a quote from ‘Fragments of Earth Lore’ by James Geikie (1893)[1]: “When we come to ask why some rivers flow in deep canyons, like those of the Colorado—why valleys should widen out in one part and contract, as it were, elsewhere—why the courses of some rivers are…
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New launch for 2022-23
The first blog containing resources and ideas will land next Monday (5th September)! As a ‘trusted voice’ in the geography education community, the Geographical Association‘s Physical Geography Special Interest Group (PGSIG) are launching this new blog aimed at providing knowledge and discussions about physical geography as a subject and the pedagogies that can support teachers’…