Pyroclastic Flows - Volcanic Impacts

Well worth watching by Year 10, with respect to the Hazard Risk equation...

VOLFILM Pyroclastic Flow Impacts (English) from VolFilm on Vimeo.
and here is what they are....

VOLFILM Pyroclastic Flow Hazard (English) from VolFilm on Vimeo

Click the VOLFilm link to see 2 more films on lahars.

British Empire Medal for Mark Beaumont...

We followed Mark Beaumont's 2nd world-record breaking cycle around the world at the start of the Michaelmas term, and it was great to see that he was awarded in the New Year's Honours List.


Source: BBC News

Advice as we move into Mocks and then Exam season

I'm very fortunate to have worked with lots of excellent geographers over the years, and currently working on a project with Dr. Peter Knight from Keele University, who is an expert on glaciers.
Here's a reminder of why knowing stuff matters...

Even if an exam is not a test of your knowledge but of what you can do with it, you can't do much if you don't know anything. Start your revision by making sure you know some stuff. Then move on and start seeing what interesting questions you can answer with it. #revision

— PeterKnightGeography (@PKGeog) December 30, 2017

How is the Arctic defined?

How is the Arctic Defined by GeoBlogs on Scribd

See some of you in Birmingham in June 2018

For the last couple of years, there has been a teacher-led CPD event called Teachmeet HistoryIcons. It was developed by a group of history teachers, and runs very successfully with some sponsorship and support from companies and individuals, which mean the event is free to delegates. The next event is taking place in March 2018.

A group of geography teachers has been working on developing a Geography-related event which, with the backing of our History colleagues has now been organised by a rather fine group of  teachers, with a similar logo, and which will be hosted by the lovely folks at the University of Birmingham.
It will take place in June 2018.

You can sign up to join the Waiting List for a ticket from the Eventbrite page.
Tickets are FREE, but SOLD OUT.

The event has a keynote from a teacher and an academic, although Teachmeets don't traditionally have a keynote, this one does... and for some reason the very lovely and generous Mrs. Humanities, who is on the organising team, asked me to do the teacher highlight talk, and I was delighted to say yes.... There have been some very kind comments on Twitter as a result of this news going out yesterday...






To follow the developments as the event gets closer, particularly any possibility of further tickets, you'd be best to follow @TMGeogIcons on Twitter.
And of course you can follow me. There has been a flurry of new followers over the last 24 hours.

I look forward to seeing some of you in June. I'm starting to think about how I can make my talk memorable, useful and profoundly geographical... I've got a few ideas...