Category Archives: Lesson Resources

Urban Growth and Megacities

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Jennifer Ferreira

Today’s post contains more materials from my recent Environment and Society course. The course has a mixture of different teaching methods to try and introduce students to university learning. For the session on urban growth and mega-cities we started with … Continue reading →

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Getting the theory across: Critical perspectives in Human Geography

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Jennifer Ferreira

I have mentioned before a course I teach called ‘Geographical Imaginations’, it aims to introduce A Level students to university learning but also to introduce them to some of the different aspects of the subject which they may not know … Continue reading →

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Water: A Policy Brief Challenge

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Jennifer Ferreira

On a course I have recently taught on Environment and Society one session focused on water and the associated problems related to its use and distribution. This lecture and exercise focuses on exploring different water management issues,  with one example … Continue reading →

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Geography can take you places: Careers with Geography

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jennifer Ferreira

Last week I was part of a team leading an ‘Insight to Geography’ day at the University of Manchester for a group of Year 10 Gifted and Talented students. One of the sessions focused on careers with Geography. It was … Continue reading →

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Identity: From Europe to You

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

Back in March I wrote a post about some resources produced by the European Commission, a poster entitled ‘United in Diversity’, and a booklet with images for each country in Europe. The images show a map of Europe/each country with … Continue reading →

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Plate Boundaries: A reminder

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

I came across this video via the fantastic Geogr@phy blog which a great resource for learning about (or revising) the different types of plate boundaries:

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Ever closer to 7 billion….

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

I came across this World Population Clock from Worldometers after a tip off from a friend on Google+. It’s essentially a countdown to the world reaching 7 billion people, which according to their calculations will be around 31st of October. … Continue reading →

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Why Geography?

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

Michael Palin in a recent article in the Guardian explained how ‘Geography students hold the key to the world’s problems’: ”So many of the world’s current issues – at a global scale and locally – boil down to geography, and … Continue reading →

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Volcano Bingo

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

Having recently finished off a starter activity for a Volcanoes workshop I thought I would share the resources here in case anyone found them of use. Students are given the Volcano Bingo worksheet, see below which has a number of … Continue reading →

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Watching earthquakes around the world. NOW!

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Jennifer Ferreira

I recently came across a website with a real time global seismic monitor map. It’s really interesting to see what levels of tectonic activity are happening around the world at any time. There are also links to a variety of … Continue reading →

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