ElginHSGeog

This account is managed by Mr Kennedy PT Geography (332ppm 1976). President of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers @SAGTeach 2025-27.

[SAGTeach @SAGTeach]

Got a great idea for in (or out) of the classroom? Tag us in your post and can share it with our followers 🌍

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The Lairig Ghru yesterday looking beautiful beneath mountains covered in fresh-fallen snow.

Photo Holly Wood https://t.co/hVXM6vdfpw

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Yesterday on the Cairn Gorm / Ben Macdui plateau. The current spell of weather is not historically unusual for May, incidentally.

Video by Gordon Smith.

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

@KingsElyGeog Have a great trip.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Anyone who has tried to improve T&L across a school knows that consistency is massively important.

And you cannot achieve consistency without shared understanding.

And you cannot achieve shared understanding without precise definitions.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

In November 1971 two groups of schoolchildren, both from Ainslie Park school in Edinburgh, set off separately from near the top of Cairn Gorm, aiming ultimately for Corrour bothy in the Lairig Ghru. What followed was the worst and most tragic mountain disaster in UK history.

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[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

@kate_stockings @teacherhead No we won’t have anyone there but I will be writing to them (in hope of getting something back).

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

@RobGeog This is a superb outcome reflective of the teamwork and aspiration to create high quality resources and build consistency across your network. As curriculum changes are almost upon us, I certainly see the advantages of this approach.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Topsoil isn’t just dirt. It’s the thin, fragile layer that feeds 8 billion people. Lose it, and yields fall, prices rise, and food security weakens. It takes centuries to form and minutes to destroy. One of the most underappreciated assets in our economy.

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

One of my favourite resources that I’ve been using for a long time and dates back to the 1980s. Supporting #nationalgeography understand the associated changes in #weather in a depression.

#geography #geographyteacher

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

In this UP village, girls aren’t just students — they’re farmers, scientists, and future leaders. 🌱

Started under a tree by Ashita Nath, The Good Harvest School is India’s first agriculture school for girls. Here, farmers’ daughters grow broccoli and purple cabbage while learning English, math, computers, and modern farming.

From just 6 girls to 65+ today — this school is transforming a village, one confident daughter at a time.

Imagine this in every village. 💚

#InternationalWomensDay #WomenAgriculture #RuralEducation #EmpoweringGirls #PositiveIndia

[International Women's Day, Girls Agriculture School India, Women In Farming India, Rural Girls Education India, Ashita Nath, The Good Harvest School]

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

UNBELIEVABLY EXCITING RESOURCE DROP:

Principles of Effective CPD, by me and @BenRiceTeach

We've been working on this guide for months, and it's a concrete + nitty gritty manual to actually delivering CPD effectively.

Get your copy at the link 👇

https://t.co/sUHlnkJA45

[Clyde Gateway @clydegateway]

Glasgow City Council is investing £6.56m to deliver XWorks — a new 40,000 sq ft innovation hub in Dalmarnock.

Focused on high value manufacturing, labs, and R&D space, XWorks will help cutting edge companies scale in Glasgow’s east end.

https://t.co/oSn5FmkSUb

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

“The climate has always changed” is a common talking point to distract from recent-more rapid manmade climate change. Here’s a quick/simple explainer on natural CC.
Natural climate change occurs over long term scales driven by predictable changes in sunlight reaching & absorbed by Earth. Over 10s of thousands of years Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble cycles back and forth causing an ice age every ~100K years.
Orbit: from more circular to more elliptical and back.
Tilt: 22° to 24.5° and back.
These cycles change the sunlight received/ absorbed. Over the past million years this means Earth cycles in and out of ice ages and interglacials. (Now we are between glacials)
A surprising note… the global temperature difference between an ice age and warm period is only ~6°C/ 10°F, but that change takes 10K+ years to happen - until now.
Over the past 150 years alone man has warmed Earth by 1.5°C/2.7°F - so about 1/4 of the amount which typically takes nature 10K+ years to accomplish. A super-charged acceleration due mainly to burning fossil fuels & forests!
True: The climate has always changed.
Also True: Humans are now a force of nature, super charging the natural warming rate.

[Network Rail Scotland @NetworkRailSCOT]

🌨️ 🚂 One of our snowploughs, which is running from Inverness to Aberdeen this morning, has reached Insch.

Pictured is heavy snow in the Kennethmont area (south of Huntly) that it's been dealing with.

@transcotland @ScotRail

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

Closing date for our teacher of Geography post is the 4th of January.

#geographyteacher #geography #teacher #teaching

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

We are recruiting for a teacher of Geography.

The link to apply is https://t.co/9YVe6sMq9b

I’d really appreciate any help on sharing this vacancy.

#geographyteacher

[ElginHSGeog @ElginHSGeog]

We are recruiting for a teacher of Geography.

The link to apply is https://t.co/9YVe6sMq9b

I’d really appreciate any help on sharing this vacancy.

#geographyteacher

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

Nepal is scrapping Everest’s $4,000 trash deposit scheme after 11 years, calling it a failure. Climbers brought waste from lower camps, not higher ones where trash piles up. A new non-refundable clean-up fee is planned to fund monitoring and waste removal.

[Network Rail Scotland @NetworkRailSCOT]

1/5 We’ve just caught up with our weather specialist, local teams, and train operators to discuss the current cold spell.

Snow is forecast in northern Scotland, particularly on lines out of Inverness in all directions. We could see up to 10-15cm in some areas by Friday morning.