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Teaching Social Deprivation and Poverty in UK cities
I have recently taught a lesson on social deprivation and poverty in UK cities and this post outlines the key activities in the lesson and provides the resources used. This lesson was designed to fit the IGCSE specification, but could … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Human Geography, Teaching
Tagged IGCSE, life expectancy, London, map, poverty, Social deprivation, tube map, urban
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More maps with meals
Last year I wrote a post about Tampopo, a fusion restaurant in Manchester which provides a map as a placemat. Recently in Portugal I found another eatery which was also provided a map, but this time with a little information … Continue reading
Historical Trans-Atlantic slave trade networks: A reflection
Over the Christmas holidays I’ve been reading the historical novel ‘New York‘ by Edward Rutherfurd – the book charts the development of the city right from its first settlers through a series of characters. Early on in the book there … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Exploration, Human Geography
Tagged geography, Historical Geography, Histroy, map, Network, ship, slave trade, trans-atlantic
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Useless stereotypes across the world
From the New York Times, an interesting world map of useless stereotypes. Similar to Mapping Stereotypes which I have written about in the past. This has got me thinking about which countries faced the most stereotypes…..something to ponder on for … Continue reading
Tintin Geographies: Global Map
Following initial thoughts, as mentioned in my first post about Tintin geographies, I am in the process of working through the Tintin books, and designing exercises to incorporate them into classroom teaching. But in the meantime I came across a … Continue reading
Map your surname
An interesting website will help you uncover the geography of your surname: http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ Apparently my surname has roots in Western Europe but is most popular Australia, UK, New Zealand, United States and Canada.
