Michelle Minton

The end of an era and a big loss for the geography community: my thoughts and reflections on what the Hodder Wideworld magazine offered us 🌎 katestockings.com/teaching-refle…

@kate_stockings Will get down to the library 👌🏼 thank you. I'm enjoying Ruth Jones' novels

@MMinton10 The 2 Elif Sharak ones for sureeeee- loved them both! And Kristin Hannah The Nightingale definitely.

Better late than ever, my 60 books of 2025 📚 2026’s target? 52 books with more edu + geog than last year! I used to get so much inspiration from people’s book threads on here. Anyone still doing one for 2026? 👀📖

@kate_stockings Me too, not too far for me 😊

@MMinton10 Haven’t worked it out yet! Tempted…

I’ve joined this for the last few years and it is some of the best CPD I’m lucky enough to attend! ⭐️ I’d encourage all who mentor, coach, work with geography teachers to attend- happy to answer any questions about attending.

@GeogWithSloggs @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Thanks for sharing. COVID really did prompt us to be creative and innovative didn't it!

@MMinton10 @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography I developed a number of resources due to Covid so students still had some fieldwork exposure- which are now embedded as more data collection and or data analysis tasks to answer enquiry questions. I have also filmed myself collection data on pebble size for class use

Morning! #teamgeog #geographyteachers what virtual fieldwork do you do? What are your top tips, websites, resources? @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography thank you 😊

@kate_stockings I'm a big fan of 'outrage and optimism'

Lots of podcasts (unsurprisingly) discussing COP30 but this is the best I’ve listened to in the last few days because it has a healthy dose of ‘hopeful geography’ within! Recommended subject knowledge update for all geographers 🌎 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

@CMOGeography @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Brilliant, thank you

ESRI UK Teach with GIS - some lovely coastal fieldwork cross sections, impact of urban shade/climate change; love a bit of google street view (esp change over time - see teachmeet @ the GA conference last year), CCTV and traffic and wave cams are good, as well as a bit of drone footage over areas. Even if for revisit/comparisons.

@TeachWithAlice @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Thanks Alice, that sounds exciting!

@MMinton10 @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography In the past I’ve done River Tees, Dorset coastline (not actual fieldwork but more digital learning exercise) Stratford for urban change/ changing places, Local changing place case study, and Antarctica for Y7

@geogthorne Thank you Suzanne ☺️

@MMinton10 This is our focus for this year! I started looking at ops for delivering strands of the fieldwork and created key points to deliver which supported our curriculum. Here’s one we did this term with Y9. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6cc1c4…

@lcgeography @kate_stockings @fiona_616 Thank you!

@MMinton10 @kate_stockings @fiona_616 Funny enough, I was doing just that today with 6th form pupils! Check out my LinkedIn later for a write up of it.

@Map_Addict @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Thanks for sharing ☺️

@MMinton10 @kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography We are doing fully virtual with our year 7 looking at urban sustainability. Work here: canva.com/design/DAGz_dY…

@kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Thanks @kate_stockings for sharing. I'm really interested in how it is/isn't being used and why. So that's really useful 👌🏼

@MMinton10 @fiona_616 @lcgeography Then none for us! Haven’t seen an example of it before where the body of fieldwork knowledge is actually taught through it. From what I’ve seen it tends to be more about bringing the world to life- which I think we can do in other ways (& more powerfully)

@kate_stockings @fiona_616 @lcgeography Yes, fully virtual if you're unable to visit a location. Definitely pros/cons to it (and not a substitute for the real thing) but interested to hear how others approach it 😊

@MMinton10 @fiona_616 @lcgeography When you say virtual, do you mean fully virtual? In which case, none as I’m not convinced by it at all. We do onsite fieldwork in Y7-9 however ☺️

2025: the first year that when teaching global cultural influence it felt impossible to ignore the rise of Chinese TNCs. Best bits I found: youtube.com/watch?v=JAblhy… youtube.com/watch?v=z7do1h… youtube.com/watch?v=n5vY-i… forbes.com/sites/kianbakh…

Delighted to have written an article for WideWorld on flooding around Gatwick — published in the very same week the second runway was approved. A timely GCSE Geography case study highlighting how physical processes and human decisions intersect. #Hodder #WideWorld

@Jennnnnn_x @GeogMum Looking forward to reading it 👏🏼 congratulations

So excited that tomorrow the book will finally be published! Came home to it on a cake 🥳🤣❤️ feel very grateful to have had this opportunity 🥳❤️🌍 and hope it reaches as many wonderful geographers as possible ❤️ @GeogMum 😘

The best back to school delivery 🎉🗞️ Really pleased with September’s issue of Wideworld with articles on Taiwan’s earthquake protection, impacts of possible expansion of Gatwick, 30years of progress in Bangladesh & much more 👩🏻‍🏫🌏 Thanks @GeogMum & @geogthorne & others!