Geography Teaching Today

Talk and Exhibition

"The Polar World"
By Kari Herbert
Author, Presenter and Photographer

Celebrating the International Polar Year, 'Explorer's Daughter' author and photographer Kari Herbert will be giving a talk that weaves together stories of native Inuit myth, historical exploration and personal adventure, against the backdrop of the changing Arctic Wilderness. An exhibition of her photography in the Arctic will also be on display and she has kindly offered to bring an Exhibition of prints by her father, the late Sir Wally Herbert, before they are taken to the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge.

www.polarworld.co.uk


Date: Tuesday 16 October 2007

Time: 7.30pm

Location: St John?s School, Epsom Road. Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 8SP

Ticket price: ?6 (?5 Concessions)

Further concessions for Schools ? please call Clare Buckingham, Marketing Manager on 01372 385448 or marketing@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk for details and tickets.

www.stjohnsleatherhead.co.uk

With the generous support of Google the RGS-IBG in conjunction with Digital Explorer will be running 10 free of charge workshops for LEA-maintained school geography teachers. These practical workshops show teachers how to create virtual fieldwork using Google Earth. They involve hands-on experience with digital cameras and GPS units creating mini-fieldwork projects outdoors. Participants are then shown how this data can be transformed into a virtual journey using Google Earth.

The workshops will take place across the UK at the following venues:

RGS-IBG, London Tuesday 16 October 2007
Swansea Monday 12 November 2007
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Monday 19 November 2007
Edinburgh Tuesday 20 November 2007
Belfast Monday 10 December 2007
Leeds Monday 14 January 2008
Birmingham Monday 28 January 2008
RGS-IBG, London Tuesday 4 March 2008
Cornwall date to be confirmed
Southampton date to be confirmed

For further information and to book your place please visit: www.rgs.org/GOseminars

I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!

That sounds fantastic John and certainly demand appears to be growing for access to place data that show 'green' facilities. Good luck with the project and thank you for highlighting another example of the relevance of geographical skills to our daily lives.

Next week in Nice

There will be a special day seminar on the environmental mapping "Green Maps" run by Graham Gardner. The participants will be involved in creating a special environmentally aware map of the city of Nice. It will include participants marking in features such as toilets, bicycle hire, tram ways, parks, water fountains etc that don't appear in the standard tourist map.

Graham has the rights to create this map for Zurich and with several of our IB Diploma students we are working to create a green map for this city.
John Cannings CGeog, ICS Zurich

Do you teach in the Bristol area?

As part of the CGeog (Teacher) network we will be running FREE regional CPD in the Bristol area, starting on the 8th December. This CPD will be based on fieldwork, and will begin with a focus group of local teachers, leading to a project (or 2) based on the APG. If you would like to be involved please contact Claire at cgeogteacher@rgs.org
Spaces are limited for the first CPD session so register your interest soon.

Details of other CPD regions will be available here soon.

Please also contact me if you would like to lead a CPD network, or you are interested in getting involved.
Claire Wheeler, RGS-IBG

One way of gaining professional recognition is to disseminate your ideas through a professional journal. As editor of the Geographical Association's journal 'Primary Geographer' I am always looking for contributions from teachers who are prepared to share their ideas about what works - and what doesn't! - in their own particular contexts.

Each issue usually has a focus, but there is always space for articles covering a range of ideas. If you are interested in exploring writing for Primary Geographer and want to know more about it please do contact me through the GA website.