Meg Picken🌍

Geography teacher. @misspicken on Instagram. ECT 21-23. NPQLT👩‍💻

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

I’ve made a Google Drive - I’ll add to this and pop resources on if/when they are requested ☺️ #geographyteacher

https://t.co/GcM6ino4H5

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@fiona_616 Oh no, I have missed this 🤦��‍♀️ I hadn’t realised there was a deadline for sign ups, we will get creative with the aim to join you next year!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@fiona_616 No!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@fiona_616 Congratulations Fiona, so excited to read⭐️

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@cjacks1 Oooo brilliant. Love this idea. My main hope is that they’ll be able to distinguish between the reasons people move and be able to start using the terminology in the correct context! Drives me mad.

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

#geographyteacher

Wanting to plan a SOW on migration. What stories/concepts/patterns/themes do you think MUST be included?

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@jenturnerhist Thank you! Have ordered this book. Love a cross curricular link!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@MrBishopGeog Thank you Ben! Writing down that I now need to look into Google Sheets haha

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@momunimoproblem Ooo what do you mean by this? Sounds interesting

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@MrGreenGeog Thank you! Lots of food for thought here. I’ve spent the last week reading so much I’m not overwhelmed with ideas �� I keep looking at these lessons titles!!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@LenehanNiall Yesss, this is what sparked the idea. I was thinking Geography club could look at current events and the geography behind them, as a lot has happened this summer!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@mrgeogaa Thank you so much, this looks so interesting!!

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@Map_Addict @wychwoodgeog @GeogShanique Adore this idea! Thank you so much for sharing.

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@wychwoodgeog This sounds amazing. Interested to know how you announce this project? Do you just mention it in class or do you also post on social media?

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

eeek so excited to see this in print, feel starstruck getting the opportunity to write a chapter and have my name next to some bloody amazing geographers!!!

[jennnnnn 🌎 @Jennnnnn_x]

The wonderful @GeogMum and I have worked with 36 fantastic Geography teachers and Geographers to write a book.... We are very excited for it to be published and feel very lucky to have such a wide range of chapters written by some brilliant people 💚🌎💙

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

Day 1 of my first ever Ofsted completed with a Geography deep dive… straight home to make a colleague a 40th birthday cake ready for day 2 tomorrow 🤣

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

@GoodnotesApp Is there any chance of getting a colour fill tool on the next update please? I spend hours colouring in different sections of my diagrams and would get sooo much use out of this as a function 🙏🏼

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

Ideas for activities to incorporate International Day of Happiness celebrations into a bell task or as part of a bigger chunk of your lesson for both primary and secondary here - might be nice seeing as we r officially the 2nd most miserable country in the world 🤣🤣 @GeogMum

[International Special Interest Group 🗺 @GA_ISIG]

Is it time for some #HopefulGeography?Would you like to celebrate the International Day of Happiness on 20th March? Here are some links & resources from our Special Interest Group to help. https://t.co/db4pY1jHxG @The_GA #InternationalHappinessDay

[Catherine Owen @GeogMum]

Great to meet with @GA_ISIG today - we were joined by Josh & Kesienna from @ERAresources - lots to think about! @The_GA

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

We only just got onto starting this last task but I wanted to show students they could restructure their answers away from an opportunities para and a challenges para to really show off their evaluation skills throughout.

10/10 fun, thoroughly enjoyed, recommend trying

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

Have changed our case study from the Sahara Desert to Mojave after seeing students craft much stronger responses in P1 last year.

Decided to structure the lesson to highlight a revision strategy - Cornell notes

[Meg Picken🌍 @PickenGeog]

Students copied an example of a 9 mark question at the top, took notes as we went through the slides, summarising with subheadings and then wrote a conclusion to evaluate.