Teaching enthusiastic young people all about the Earth @gairlochhigh 🌍 President @SAGTeach 🏔️ Geography, Geology & beautiful pictures of Scotland 🥰
Gairloch, Scotland
Joined September 2008
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Registration for our annual SAGT Conference is open!
Full programme & tickets: sagteach.org/conference
October 26th at Marr Academy, Troon.
Prices remain the same as previous years. Please remember that schools have a CLPL budget and you should be able to claim this cost.
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We’re hiring! We have a vacancy for a GeoBus Education Assistant. Full details can be found at: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/V…
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The geology of Gairloch explained by @emmaearth who kindly met up with me when I was in the area to show me a cool few spots. Emma teaches Geography at Gairloch high school and around 1-2 students out of 12 go on to study Geology at university which I think is absolutely awesome
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My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share
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The physical and human causes of flooding in the South Esk, Scotland, 2023 associated with the unprecedented rainfall from Storm Babet. A GCSE Geography case study.
youtube.com/watch?v=a86F6kAx…
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Join us on 27th Sept for the first of a series of webinars on aspects of educational reform emerging from recent Scottish Government reports. This sessions will provide the opportunity to exchange views on the recent Hayward Review.
Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rsgs-webi…
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We're launching a questionnaire to help inform the creation of new resources on earth science topics. We'd love to hear from secondary school geography teachers on what they would find valuable.
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Scotland: forms.office.com/e/xxhk2n1rA…
Rest of UK: forms.office.com/e/935ePibKr…
ALT On the left is an image of a teacher looking over a student who is studying a microscope. The teacher is wearing a white lab coat. On the right it says 'QUESTIONNAIRE: Teaching Resources, closing date: 25 October 2023. Top right is the BGS logo.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
We are pleased to announce our early bird sign up for the annual #SAGT conference. This year we return to @Inverness_Royal on 28th October.
Sign up here sagteach.org/cpd/conference/
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#geographyteacher #clpl #learning #teaching #conference #professionallearning
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Does the UK need more North Sea oil and gas extraction?
@C4Ciaran digs deeper into Rishi Sunak’s decision to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences.
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🌍🌋 Some of our Higher and Advanced Higher Geography pupils arrived in Iceland today 🇮🇸! Over the next few days they'll be visiting the best of Iceland's sights including glaciers, waterfalls, geysers and today visited Iceland's newest lava flow which is only 2 years old.
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⭐️Writing competition for S1-S3 geography pupils⭐️
We often talk of being part of a community, but what does this mean? - We want you to tell us about a community that you feel is important to you!
Entries should be submitted by 4pm on Friday 30th June at rsgs.org/inmycommunity
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Our series of 2023 St Andrews based CLPL opportunities for secondary BGE, Nat 4 & 5, Higher and Adv Higher #geography, #science & #environmentalscience teachers is now LIVE! 🌎 Info & booking: geobus.st-andrews.ac.uk/clpl…
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Our current vice president @EmmaEarth recently spoke at the @RoyalScotGeoSoc conference hosted at @Dollar_Academy.
To listen to Emma and other speakers follow the link below. #geographyteacher #geography #education #teaching #teacher
To join SAGT rb.gy/vn8jg
We have just posted the next four provocations from the RSGS #Education Conference! With Ian Selmes, Alan Kinder, Ellie Kirkland and Emma Wotherspoon! 🌍youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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One more #geology story before I sign off for the week ⚒️
The rocks by Rua Reidh lighthouse, near Gairloch, are 1 billion years old - as are these ripples, though they look like they formed this am & will change with the next tide...
Read on... It has a lot more to offer...
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The Slattadale Member: the rainbow rock - a thread 🧵
About 1 billion years ago, the land that makes up northern 🏴 was very mountainous. Some of those mountains were made of a more ancient rock - gneiss. Others were made of amphibolite, which I mentioned earlier this week!
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Crofting is such a traditional part of life here - but the wonderful thing about tradition is you keep the best bits and work to make the rest even better. Izzy and Gemma are both in the midst of lambing on family crofts in Poolewe 🐑
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My six Advanced Higher Geographers - what a fantastic lot! School's taught them many things, but we were chatting over lunch about how speaking up and taking action in our communities can be so powerful 🌍 💪 Very proud teacher!
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🌍 It's Geography exam day 🌍 A massive well done to my National, Higher & Advanced Higher pupils for your work this year - it means that today I am also excited because you know your stuff & get to show it 💪 All the best and good luck! 🤞
(Pic from yesterday - Gairloch beach)
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The geological story of the 'Gairloch Gold'.
Recently, the @BritGeoSurvey released a report which highlighted a gold deposit at Loch Maree, near Gairloch, which might be economical to mine in the future. But how did the gold get there?
