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During lockdown for Covid-19, we collated a list of useful resources for parents and teachers to use during the teaching and learning of geography at home, and ran online events, training and lessons. This page provides an overview of the Society's support and resources, and highlights other online geography-related learning opportunities that you might find useful.

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Support and resources from the Society

  • Podcasts focusing onÌýtopics fromÌýwildfires, weather and the high street to plate tectonics, cities and the carbon cycle. These are perfect for your students to listen to current geographical themes and keep up to date with their subject knowledge.

  • A wide range of articles and case studies based on geography in the news - these link directly to specification content and can help your students to read around topics presented in your online lessons.

  • Our catalogue of online lectures by leading geographical experts for you and your students to watch, some of which are supported by resources that can be used to teach a lesson based on the lecture.

  • You might like to encourage your students to think about geographical fieldwork within their home space. We have selection of ideas for school grounds fieldwork which could be adapted, plus ideas for creating your own fieldwork equipment at home.

  • Use this opportunity to get to grips with GIS and pre-plan some lesson content to use with your students. We have a range of support for GIS, plus some information about using data sets.

  • Our news roundup will help students stay aware of geographical stories in the press.

  • Why not think about how you are presenting careers with geography to your students? We have a wealth of careers resources; this is an ideal time to show students how geography works in the real world.

  • Our animationsÌýand interactives explain geographical processes and concepts in a visual way - excellent for getting parents to get to grips with the concepts your students are learning about at home.

  • Our resourceÌýmodulesÌýspan Key Stages Two to Five and are perfect for getting students to work through at home with their parents - theyÌýprovide background information about the topic, lesson plans and all the resources needed to teach up to six lessons.

  • Remember to check our events pages for students and teachers for details of online event opportunities.

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  • Explore the Society's on BFI Player.

  • Geography at HomeÌýworksheets and ideas for teachers

  • Check out our brand new . Our Geography Directions blogÌýappliesÌýgeographical insights to better understand and explain contemporary issues. Each blog post is written by a relevant expert geographer and many draw directly on the latest research, as published in the 91ÇÑ×Ó journals, book series, and beyond. This schools enrichment resource portalÌýfilters this content into easily accessible streams, based on topic areas at A-Level and GCSE, which can be used by teachers to enhance their knowledge, or shared with their students as part of their course materials and to provide stimulus for their NEAs.

Support and resources from partners and other providers

  • Esri UK have a huge range of resources for Ìýincluding tutorials, as well as

  • Maps skills and more from

  • Ordnance Survey

  • Ordnance Survey

  • from The Open University

  • Ìýfor teachers, trainee teachers and A Level students from the Royal Meteorological Society

  • Wildlife and ecology with

  • Wildlife and nature with

  • The Geospatial Commission and Government Geography Profession Geo themed resources

  • Teaching Times

  • While it is not possible to go on fieldtrips at the moment, the Discovering Oman lesson plans provide a useful way of developing other important skills that are relevant to outdoor learning.Ìý In particular, focusing on something we all need – resilience.Ìý

  • Bringing wider reading in reach of your students, linked to Origins by Lewis Dartnell and Disaster By Choice Ilan Kelman. These resources can be adapted, but link directly to the books to engage students in accessing popular geographical texts. Aimed at KS4 & KS5.

  • Earthwatch Europe and

  • :ÌýThere is a Primary School Education Programme Let’s Count! which includes 14 adaptable lesson plans covering key areas of the English and Welsh curriculum. The Secondary Education Programme includes more in-depth activities specific to curriculum topics like maths, geography and history. These resources will allow students to learn about the relevance of the census to these specific subjects. The programme aims to excite and educate young people aged 11-18 about the importance of the Census, for them and their communities and inspire with flexible, free activities, developed with young people and teachers, that highlight the power students have to make change happen through the Census.

  • :ÌýCreative Earth is an art competition for people aged 16 and under from across the UK, run by the UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in collaboration with WWF.ÌýEnter the competition to be in with a chance of having your artwork displayed at COP26 and show the rest of the world your vision for the future.

  • Glasgow virtual field trail from Glasgow Caledonian University:ÌýRethinking, Renewing or Reinforcing our Understanding of Glasgow: The City Field Transect

  • from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Please note that the Society cannot be held responsible for the content of external online support and resources that areÌýlisted here.