Congratulations to this year’s recipients of our Innovative Geography Teaching Grants, Dr Lisa Ficklin and Grace Healy.
Dr Lisa Ficklin from Manchester Metropolitan University, with the assistance of Dr Billy Haworth from the University of Manchester, will be developing a toolkit for secondary level geography teachers teaching about hazards. The digital toolkit will centre on a simulation of a disaster event, which can be seen from different perspectives in real-time and will have a number of adaptations so it is suitable for different class sizes and year groups. It will include primary data, contextual information about the hazard event and the key actors involved. Students will be able to analyse images, GIS data and policy documents in order to produce a response strategy which can then adapt to changes in the simulation.
Grace Healy from Hewett Academy in Norwich will work with Dr Jess Hope from the University of Bristol to create The 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: advice from the Global South. The resource will bring together experiences, politics and recommendations from individuals in the Global South including indigenous social movement leaders, conservationists and development workers. Using a series of filmed interviews, the resource will bring advice about sustainable development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals into classrooms in the Global North.
Each year, the Innovative Geography Teaching Grants offer two awards of £1,000 to secondary level geography teachers and a university collaborator for the development of imaginative and creative educational resources, which will be shared through our schools page. Find out more.
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