Second career Geography Teacher - never too old!
Geography makes sense of the world. There is a place for everyone.
@GrammarAberdeen Northeast ScotlandJoined November 2022
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In one week, on April 2nd at 4:00 BST we'll be hosting a new free training session centered around exploring the mysterious world of mountains and volcanoes using the Digimap for Schools platform!
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Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming newscientist.com/article/247026…
The rate at which glaciers are melting worldwide has accelerated by more than a third in the past decade as global warming continues apace. newscientist.com/article/246921…
"We are committed to doing everything we can to mitigate the impact of flooding."
Council announces £19.5m funding to battle flooding and climate change
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Thanks to everyone who has shared our post launching the Easter Study Support 2025 programme.
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where you can also download the timetables for the live webinars which begin on 7th April.
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Our National geographers have been refreshing their mapskills in the final push to the exam GR’s ✅ measuring ✅ cross-sections ✅ @GeoDoc22@OSleisure#geographyteacher
Peer assessment and Gallery Walk at #aberdeengrammar to establish if we met our success criteria for our S1 Medieval History Project this week!
One of the great this about being a #geographyteacher is teaching and establishing learning connections across the #humanities !
🌤 January 2025 was the fifth sunniest on record for the UK, though temperatures were subdued compared to average, according to provisional Met Office statistics.
Details in the thread, including a look at the impact of Storm Éowyn.
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What are sinkholes and how do they form? I'll be on Mysteries of Sinkholes on Channel 4 this Sunday at 6pm. If you miss it, it will be on catch up. Amazing stories that take you across the world, from sacred sites to places that swallowed up homes...and people. @KnightAyton
Fantastic fun this week @GrammarAberdeen with our S4 #N5 classes consolidating their learning of carbonation through creating their own #limestone pavements with @GeoDoc22
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#Nationalgeography brought the curtain down on the coast topic with a mapwork task, recapping the knowledge and skills learned in the Glaciation topic and applying them to a coastal context (in our case, our local one).
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