I have not blogged about teaching Geography before, but it is what I do when I get the chance to be in the classroom.
There have been natural disasters this year that have formed useful case studies for student learning, but although there are advantages in raising awareness, it sometimes feel like I am taking advantage of people's loss when I use them as lesson material. The Icelandic ash cloud is something different. I can use it to illustrate points from tectonic activity to globalisation, and use different points of the globe where teachers are stuck as references. All that and no one had to get hurt!
In this lesson I have used my fellow Deputy Head's absence (he swanned off to New Zealand at Easter and can't get back) as a mystery for the students to solve. It is free for anyone to adapt.
