"Look at it this way"

An update from the Telegraph which will add an extra 'layer' to those lessons on Wind Turbines...

This blog was launched to support my KS3 Toolkit book  when it was published. There are now 301 posts here, which include further resources to flesh out the lessons in the book, as well as other more general landscape-related posts. Thanks for reading. The book is still available from the GA shop - if you see me, I'm happy to sign your copy ;)

The GTAV (Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria) has created ScoopIt pages for the new Australian Geography Curriculum. Landscapes are covered in Year 8, and there are some useful links on the page. Search GTAV on the ScoopIt homepage to find others... A nice idea for the changing UK curriculum.... 

Earlier today posted the ten thousandth picture up on my Flickr page. Check the sets for plenty of themed sets of images. There are certainly plenty of LANDSCAPE images from various EU countries, and all over the UK. Images available under Creative Commons non-commercial / attribution license.

Thanks to Matt Podbury for the tipoff to this little simulation game. Create the landscape feature by choosing the agent of change and the timescale How many can you get to match ? A nice bit of fun.... Students could research the veracity of the answers, or suggest other agents of landscape change and the impacts that they have...

Some nice ideas for exploring the rural landscape from FACE. Some from my GA colleague Paula Owens here. Go HERE to download your own copy.