Developing a virtual geography club

I have been asked to develop a series of tasks that we can offer students across the key stages as a “virtual” geography club.

The reason for going virtual is that when we go back in September, due to Covid-19 changes, we shall be having stagged leave times, so will not be able to hold clubs after school as normal, as we could be teaching a class.

Thining about this, I decided to use google classroom as the platform that will be used to engage and commuicate with the students, as this proved to work work during lockdown.

After designing a few different activities I was in need for some inspriration, which is when I discovered an excellent blog https://educaiti.com/blog/running-a-really-good-geography-club where Caiti outlined her plans for geography club in the coming year. I really liked the plan and the range of activities – the blog is well worth a read.

So with a few more ideas I set about designing the activities – Once I have the whole year planned I shall upload the powerpoint for you to download if you wish. – I was aiming for activities that could be done at home without too much help, but also would require students to think and to complete research. There was also an element of fun to be had, it is geography club after all! When planning, I also felt it important to develop cross curriculum links, particually as we are located within a Humanities Area, so I have also tried to link in some RS and History themes as well.

Here are a few example sheets.

I plan to publish a slide each week using google classroom, and perhaps also use a voiceover as well and publish as a video introducing that weeks challenge.

The icons used for most of the slides are from https://www.flaticon.com/ and excellent free location for icons if you are developing duel coding, or just want to have icons that are a bit different.

Until next time…

Paul