Lara Buchanan

Show Your Stripes day was this weekend but everyday is a day to think about the state of our planet. This year, the GA is running a promotion to spread the news and one random participant will be chosen to receive 10 Show Your Stripes badges to share with their students this June. Free postage. How to participate: like and repost this post to enter. The winner will be announced this Friday! #ShowYourStripesDay

7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, mainly impacting Myanmar and Thailand.

This morning I have sent flags out to 28 schools - so please check your emails to see if yours has returned!! #AntarcticFlags @wychwoodgeog @NorthernGeogger @MrsGGraham @Carrick_Geo @Ms_GreenGeog @GeogFelsted @josephine_pm @HarrowHKGeog

Full circle moment today. Back when I was in Y8 I fell in love with geography because of a unit of work about the Maasai tribe in Kenya 🇰🇪. Today I began a unit with my Y8s looking at indigenous communities across the world. I can’t wait to show them the best of geography. 🌏

There's lots in the press today about potential of AI to the UK, including to schools & for some eg's of use of AI in the #geography classroom see @MrsBuchananGeog 's blog for @The_GA on how she uses AI in her lessons. ga-blog.org/2024/12/03/fou…

Progress 8 and disadvantaged secondary school data from @educationgovuk using @ArcGISOnline #GIS larger circle = higher % disadvantaged red = higher P8 blue = lower P8 teacher-training.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer… London is fascinating as is the simple distribution of schools.

Thinking about class wealth - is it now dependent on the bank of mum and dad? Great conversation here: youtu.be/cWBqU9HVahg?si…

They Call It The Land of Fire and Ice for a reason!

Teaching A Level Sociology this year alongside geography and so getting back into all things sociological from my University days. Moving on to think about the role of gender and educational underachievement- thought I’d start here! #EduChat #Sociology

@SteveBraceGeog @The_GA Thank you for asking!!

@MrsBuchananGeog @The_GA Many thanks for doing this & congrats on doing this blog for @The_GA

Excitingly, my first blog post for the GA was published today! All about the practical use of AI in the secondary geography classroom! Let me know what you think! #geographyteacher @The_GA ga-blog.org/2024/12/03/fou…

‘The possibilities of using AI in the classroom are nearly endless if you can harness the technology to produce what you are aiming for.’ How can AI be utilised in the classroom? Read Laura Buchanan's article on the GA Blog to find out. Read article: ga-blog.org/2024/12/03/fou…

It’s Christmas in the Buchanan household! 🎄

🚨 NEW: The appointment of Heidi Alexander now means the Cabinet, for the first time in history, is now entirely state-educated [@georgeeaton]

Spend this evening watching JOY on Netflix. Exploring the history of IVF. amazing to see the change in such a short space of time and the movement of women’s reproductive health in the last 50 years. #sexeducation #WomensHealth

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Arrived in London for our Christmassy weekend 🎄

The Ocean Cleanup program has now removed more than 100,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: buff.ly/3PD05aA The ocean isn't a garbage dump. Protect it. #EndSingleUse #PlasticPollution #uselss #wasteless #oceans

On this day 8th Nov 2013 #OTD Typhoon #Haiyan arrived on E coast of The Philippines #3DScene created in @ArcGISOnline #WeatherHazards #TropicalStorm #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) @humdata arcg.is/1HajC92

A reminder that it is our modern industrial civilization’s accelerating demand for materials that drives fossil fuel consumption, ecocide & the West’s imperialist assaults on the Global South. In 6 recent years we've consumed nearly as much as we did in the entire 20th century.