2013 programme

January 28th: Blogs and IT in teaching geography
....check out this link 50 best blogs for Geography Geeks here to whet your appetite

SATURDAY March 2nd: Urban fieldwork investigation (Kieran McCarthy)
(any idea what year this coastal fieldwork took place?)

Discussion on future of Junior Certificate fieldwork

Maps and all that

Well worth looking at the new look Scoilnet Maps. Here is a screen grab to whet your appetite.

 

My favourite is Mapviewer from the Ordnance Survey

AGM 2012-13

The South East Branch AGM will be held on November 26th.

The keynote speakers at the Meeting will be Charles Hayes and Una Nation, text book authors of note, who will give a reprise of their enjoyable presentations to the AGM of the AGTI in Dublin recently.

Charles Hayes will speak on

Strategies for teaching Junior Cycle Geography

Una Nation will bring us

Active Approaches to Teaching Leaving Certificate Geography

The meeting will begin with coffee and tea at 7.15 for a 7.30 start at the Waterford teachers centre. Please pass on the details to your colleagues.

Sunny visit to the Copper Coast

Tina Keating lead a group of geographers along the Copper Coast from Kilfarrassy to Ballydwan. The pictures show some of what we did.

Differential erosion

Clasts in Volcanic ash

Measuring the height of the cliff

Nice sea stack in background

Kilfarassy, the starting point

and more text books

The revised Horizons series written by Tara Fitzharris, a branch member, who spoke to the local branch in January about revision techniques for the Junior and Leaving Certificate.
Horizons is an innovative exam-focused and hugely resourced programme for Leaving Certificate Geography.

It is integrated programme with a variety of resources available for teacher and student. All components are integrated into the teacher's eBook on folensonline. Digital resources on CD-Rom are available to teachers on request.



Not to mention the revised version of Today's World co-written by our former branch Chairperson, Kieran McCarthy.  This is a comprehensive textbook for the Leaving Certificate Geography course suitable for both Higher and Ordinary Level. This textbook covers the three core units of the Leaving Certificate course with full-colour packed with maps, diagrams, photographs, and satellite images; Revised and fully up-to-date student- and teacher-friendly text; Covers the 3 core units, with exam questions at the end of each chapter; Additional key questions are provided to facilitate revision and homework; Up-to-date with the latest statistics and case studies and extensive glossary and new and improved diagram. How do you chose?

Keeping up with the text books.

Exciting new books for Leaving Cert. Geography

A relative paucity of high Leaving Cert. grades – particularly in the ‘A’ categories – has been a worry and an annoyance to Geography teachers in recent years.  This challenge is now being met by Changing World - a welcome and exciting new series of textbooks to be launched in April. Changing World, published by Gill and Macmillan, is the work of well-known author Charles Hayes, (who spoke to the Branch in November) and whose Junior Certificate New Complete Geography is among the most successful Irish Geography texts of all times

Eye in the Sky from National Geographic

Another website worth a look with Natures Fury (Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes and Wildfire); Human Impact (floods and dams, ozone and pollution, deforestation and desertification, and overpopulation); and Human Conflict (refugees and war). This website is from National Geographic.