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Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog

Geography teacher. @misspicken on Instagram. ECT 21-23. NPQLT👩‍💻

Joined December 2022
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Meg Picken🌍@PickenGeog
7 Feb 2023
I’ve made a Google Drive - I’ll add to this and pop resources on if/when they are requested ☺️ #geographyteacher drive.google.com/drive/folde…

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#geographyteacher Wanting to plan a SOW on migration. What stories/concepts/patterns/themes do you think MUST be included?
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eeek so excited to see this in print, feel starstruck getting the opportunity to write a chapter and have my name next to some bloody amazing geographers!!!
jennnnnn 🌎@Jennnnnn_x
6 Jul 2024
The wonderful @GeogMum and I have worked with 36 fantastic Geography teachers and Geographers to write a book.... We are very excited for it to be published and feel very lucky to have such a wide range of chapters written by some brilliant people 💚🌎💙
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Day 1 of my first ever Ofsted completed with a Geography deep dive… straight home to make a colleague a 40th birthday cake ready for day 2 tomorrow 🤣
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Ideas for activities to incorporate International Day of Happiness celebrations into a bell task or as part of a bigger chunk of your lesson for both primary and secondary here - might be nice seeing as we r officially the 2nd most miserable country in the world 🤣🤣 @GeogMum
International Special Interest Group 🗺@GA_ISIG
13 Mar 2024
Is it time for some #HopefulGeography?Would you like to celebrate the International Day of Happiness on 20th March? Here are some links & resources from our Special Interest Group to help. geography.org.uk/resources/i… @The_GA #InternationalHappinessDay
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Catherine Owen@GeogMum
9 Mar 2024
Great to meet with @GA_ISIG today - we were joined by Josh & Kesienna from @ERAresources - lots to think about! @The_GA
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Have changed our case study from the Sahara Desert to Mojave after seeing students craft much stronger responses in P1 last year. Decided to structure the lesson to highlight a revision strategy - Cornell notes
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Students copied an example of a 9 mark question at the top, took notes as we went through the slides, summarising with subheadings and then wrote a conclusion to evaluate.
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We only just got onto starting this last task but I wanted to show students they could restructure their answers away from an opportunities para and a challenges para to really show off their evaluation skills throughout. 10/10 fun, thoroughly enjoyed, recommend trying
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Sophy Ridge@SophyRidgeSky
22 Feb 2024
If you read one thing on Twitter today, make it this...
Ed Conway
@EdConwaySky
21 Feb 2024
🚨How British companies are bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war machine🚨 A depressing thread. But an important one. With some pretty shocking charts. Let’s begin with the “official” picture. It suggests UK trade with Russia has collapsed since Feb 2022. Down by 74%…
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Fancying a bit of a geog hol this summer? @The_GA study tour heads to The Azores this summer! Still some spaces available. Had the pleasure getting to know @flooglebinderUK within our @GA_ISIG meetings and the thought that goes into these trips is incredible. Great for CPD!
FLOOGLEBINDER: travel that makes a difference@flooglebinderUK
26 Jan 2024
In partnership with the @The_GA, we are so excited to announce we are launching this once-in-a-lifetime expedition to the Azores for a week of hydrology, species conservancy and geothermal energy. Contact us for more info! 🚴‍♂️🐳🌋
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Laura Wells@WellsGeog
25 Nov 2023
I used to print maps to teach the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes. Not only did this cost money (colour printing😆) but I never really felt that students grasped what I wanted them to. So after watching videos mainly @lcgeography (thank you!) I now use GIS! 🧵
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Only came across @ERAresources for the first time at a recent @GA_ISIG meeting. Superb video resources available for free for teachers. Many snippets of docs to peruse that are no longer available on BBC etc. Check it out #geographyteacher !!
ERA Teaching Resources@ERAresources
23 Nov 2023
We received a request for this Panorama Episode for teaching #Geography and it is now available on our Video Streaming Platform: era.org.uk/streaming-service… Do keep sending us your BBC programme requests for ANY subject!
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I made a Google Drive for my students. Being organised is a challenge and I hate following some things up. So, now when students miss a lesson, I don’t need to email them individually and when students say “I don’t know how to revise” my reply is Google Drive. 🧵
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3. Check. - Quizzes The font has gone funky on this one, apologies if that irritates you as much as it does me. Here, students can click the icon and it takes them to a self-marked quiz online. Alternatively, we subscribe to @educake so students can set themselves quizzes
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For now, that is my Google Drive. My purpose of sharing this is the hope that you lot will point out some obvious genius activity I’m missing that can be embedded into the Drive, if anyone reads this far! Thank you ☺️
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