Polar resources for GCSE

Over the Christmas holiday, the Pole of Cold team were making their way towards Oymyakon: the Pole of Cold (coldest inhabited place in the Northern Hemisphere)

I've blogged about the project before, which has its Twitter feed and Facebook page.

Meanwhile I was a little closer to home... in fact I was at home, working on a resource for the From the Field section of the Royal Geographical Society website.

These resources are now live on the KS4 From the Field section of the RGS website.

Check them out here: 3 lesson plans with all the materials, plus plenty of extension ideas and other materials, with more to come...
Thanks to Matt Podbury for some kind words already. Let me know if you use them or take a look.

East London GA Branch

Always worth keeping up to date with your subject knowledge if you're going to support students in getting better GCSE grades.

Are you in or near East London next Tuesday night ?

Why not pop over to the free launch event for a new GA Branch

Dr. Simon Carr of QMUL is currently co-ordinating the new programme.

Here's the details:

FREE Launch Event

The London 2012 Olympics: Evaluating the Legacy of the Games

5.30 - 7.30pm, Tuesday 14 January

School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS

Nearest tube: Mile End and Stepney Green; bus routes 25 and 205.

The Geographical Association East London Branch would like to invite you to join us for a launch event hosted by the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London.

The launch will comprise two talks examining the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics given by:
Professor Steve Cummins (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Emmanuel Gotora (The East London Communities Organisation, TELCO).

We hope the evening will provide insight and inspiration about our East London location as well as examine the theme of a popular case-study and fieldwork component used throughout the National Curriculum and at GCSE and A Level. There will also be a brief introduction to the new GA Branch and an invitation to join and be a part of its future development.

This event is free to attend and is aimed at teachers, teaching assistants and others involved in the preparation, teaching and evaluation of teaching, whether they are members of the GA or not. Refreshments will be provided.

If you have any enquiries about the GA East London Branch or the launch event, please email Dr Simon Carr. We would be very grateful if you could email to confirm attendance for catering purposes.

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Geographical Association East London Branch