{"id":162,"date":"2010-09-12T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/geography\/"},"modified":"2010-12-10T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:44:01","slug":"geography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\">I have taught Geography across the Secondary School (UK) age range \u2013 11 years to 18 for over 10 years. I will add useful resources relevant to the various courses I have taught, as well as more general Geography-related stuff, on this site from time to time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Friday-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Friday 047\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Friday 047\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Friday-047_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\">Image: Me and Year 12 Students, Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia, North Wales, 2003<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">This page contains the 10 most recent Geography posts here on opengecko.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">You can explore more posts in the archive in the sidebar.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">\n  <!-- post -->\n  <div id=\"post-1070\" class=\"hentry post post-1 odd author-admin category-geography post_tag-introduction post_tag-lesson post_tag-resource clear-block\">\n\n   <a class=\"post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft\" href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/describing-places-using-key-words-and-google-maps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker-64x64.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>     <h2 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/describing-places-using-key-words-and-google-maps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Describing Places Using Key Words and Google Maps\">Describing Places Using Key Words and Google Maps<\/a><\/h2>\n   \n        <div class=\"post-date\">\n       <p class=\"day\">Jan 12th<\/p>\n     <\/div>\n\n     <div class=\"post-info clear-block with-thumbs\">\n      <p class=\"author alignleft\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by James Penstone \">James Penstone<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/category\/geography\/\">Geography<\/a>                  <\/p>\n            <p class=\"comments alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/describing-places-using-key-words-and-google-maps\/#comments\" class=\"no comments\">No comments<\/a><\/p>\n           <\/div>\n    \n        <div class=\"post-content clear-block\">\n      <p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be a Thinker\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be a Thinker\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker_thumb.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/media\/photos\/000\/272\/27234.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/education\/media\/what-geography\/?ar_a=1\" target=\"_blank\">Source: National Geographic (Education)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-A-Communicator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be A Communicator\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be A Communicator\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-A-Communicator_thumb.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Watch this video. Afterwards, you need to describe the places that you have seen in the video, so watch carefully.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Q. As we describe the places we see, what sort of special words can we use? We are trying to use Geography key words \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p>   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63156048?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/63156048\">Mini Norway &#8211; a Tilt Shift Movie<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user12223286\">Davide Vasta<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Now we will do the same for a different place \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/71887368?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/71887368\">Bird&#8217;s eye Bangkok<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/manders\">Pieter Manders<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be a Thinker\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be a Thinker\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">What Geography Key Words can we use when describing places?<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid\" height=\"420\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/13949585?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"510\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\"><strong><a title=\"Introducing Geography Key Words\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jamespenstone\/introducing-geography-key-words\" target=\"_blank\">Introducing Geography Key Words<\/a> <\/strong>from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jamespenstone\" target=\"_blank\">James Penstone<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>Putting it all together \u2013 here is how a student once applied such key words to three locations around Rayong in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"597\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n     <\/div>\n      \n       <div class=\"post-tags\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/tag\/introduction\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"introduction (2 topics)\">introduction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/tag\/lesson\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"lesson (3 topics)\">lesson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/tag\/resource\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"resource (3 topics)\">resource<\/a>    <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div>\n  <!-- \/post -->\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taught Geography across the Secondary School (UK) age range \u2013 11 years to 18 for over 10 years. 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