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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧
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Head of Geography in Bristol 👨🏻🏫 Oxford, KCL, Sheffield🎓 UNCC accredited 🇺🇳 Views are my own 💭
Here is a crazy fact I discovered last week: Bristol is the 8th most expensive city in the to build in 🤯 According to the Arcadis International Construction Costs Index (2024–2025 data) our city construction costs are insane…
I finished recording a my first video on the 2026 pre-release. The purpose of this video is to discussed different alternatives for this year's pre-release 9 marker and provide my students with advice on how to tackle the question - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_s...
AQA Geography GCSE Paper 3 - Pre release 2026 (Possible 9 Mark Questions)
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Here is a YouTube video on how to plan a Level 3 - 9 mark answer for this year's pre-release on the proposed reservoir in Lincolnshire. Obviously, this is all hypothetical as we do not know the question but I hope you find it useful - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIY...
AQA Geography GCSE Paper 3 - Pre-release 2026 (9 Marker - Level 3 Answer)
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This week’s flag: France 🇫🇷 My homeland has been in the news for sporting reasons as it successfully retained its title in the Six Nations Championship, after a dramatic last-minute win against England this weekend 🏉 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/1RLWf...
France
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This week’s flag: Nigeria 🇳🇬 The country is Africa’s most populated country and home to its largest city, Lagos 🌍 Lagos is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with around 77 new residents arriving every hour 📈 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/AjfUp...
Nigeria 🇳🇬
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This week’s flag: the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 After rising tensions in the Middle East disrupted one of the world’s most important transport and trade hubs 🌍 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/_lLoC...
The UAE 🇦🇪
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This week’s flag: Madagascar 🇲🇬 The country has been hit by Cyclone Gezani, causing 35 deaths and displacing over 250,000 people 🌪️The cyclone also affected neighbouring Mozambique, bringing heavy rain, flooding and widespread disruption 🌊 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/Av_TE...
Madagascar 🇲🇬
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I’ve just spent a week in the Lake District with my family who very kindly agreed to work unpaid as my film crew so I was able to visit Cockermouth and film a mini-documentary exploring the causes, impacts and responses to the floods for my students m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Why was the Cockermouth flood in 2009 so devastating?
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This week’s flag: The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 The UK has lost its measles-free status, according to the World Health Organization, and is now experiencing a measles outbreak ⚠️(/1) youtube.com/shorts/8Jsjj...
The UK 🇬🇧
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This week’s flag: The Olympic movement, with Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern Italy set to host the Winter Olympic Games 🇮🇹 From a geography perspective, major international sporting events are powerful tools of soft power 🌍 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/BCZPf...
Olympics ⛷️
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This week’s flag: Denmark 🇩🇰 The country has been in the news due to renewed attention on Greenland, which is a territory that is part of the Danish kingdom but is highly autonomous 🇬🇱 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/SURgu...
Denmark 🇩🇰
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This week’s flag: Tanzania 🇹🇿 I’m delighted to be leading a student expedition to this sub-saharan country in 2027 with True Adventure 🏕️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/qztFI...
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How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway
HS2 is set to cost more per kilometre than any other rail project in the world as total bill could surpass £100bn
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Making my Year 12s carry out secondary research in class today confirmed the fact the internet has moved away from a world of questioning and critical thinking and into a world of direct answers... This was recently discussed in Amol Rajan's Radical podcast 🎤
This week’s flag: European Union 🇪🇺 The EU has just agreed its largest-ever trade deal with South America’s Mercosur, aiming to reduce tariffs and trade barriers between the two major economic blocs 🤝 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/ngwrz...
European Union 🇪🇺
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This Week's Flag: Venezuela 🇻🇪 The country has been in the news following a US-led operation targeting President Nicolás Maduro 🇺🇸 The situation in and around Caracas has drawn worldwide attention and sparked intense international debate 👀 (/1) youtu.be/wwYGSweL9xI?...
Venezuela 🇻🇪
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This Week's Flag: Venice 🇮🇹 New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that volcanic eruptions may have helped trigger the arrival of the Black Death in Europe 🌋 (/1) youtu.be/uwXerMjV_fo?...
Venice 🇮🇹
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This Week's Flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 This weekthe country has been in the news after a volcanic eruption 🌋 It’s a historic moment — the volcano hasn’t erupted since the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago ❄️(/1) youtube.com/shorts/kODLn...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
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This week’s flag: Indonesia 🇮🇩 The country has been making headlines for two very different reasons ✨ Jakarta is now the world’s largest city, officially overtaking Tokyo 🇯🇵 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/uBtKj...
Indonesia 🇮🇩
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This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 COP30 is currently taking place in Belem and is the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, where countries meet with the UN to discuss how we can mitigate, adapt, and manage the financial impacts of climate change 🌎(/1) youtube.com/shorts/T73NX...
Brazil 🇧🇷
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This week’s flag: Iran 🇮🇷 The Persian country is currently experiencing a devastating drought due to a lack of rainfall 🏜️ Reservoirs supplying Tehran are less than 10%, which means that the country’s capital city is at risk of having to be evacuated 🏙 youtube.com/shorts/Mp7vX...
Iran 🇮🇷
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This week’s flag: Jamaica 🇯🇲 During half-term, the country was hit by Hurricane Melissa 🌀 The Category 5 storm intensified over the Caribbean Sea to become to joint strongest in the Atlantic Ocean’s history 🌎 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/7Jh8B...
Jamaica 🇯🇲
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This week’s flag: Hawaï 🇺🇸 The USA’s smallest state is home to the world’s most active volano - Mt Kilauea 🌋Last weekend, the volcano erupted for the 36th time since December 2024, which means it has done so once a week since the end of last year 📆 youtube.com/shorts/LR7oa...
Hawaï 🏄♂️
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This week's flag: the Philippines 🇵🇭 The East Asian country has been in the news recently after suffering from a series of natural hazards 📰 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/nOGk2...
Philippines 🇵🇭
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Two years ago, I was approached by @geogmum.bsky.social and @jennnnnn.bsky.social about a book on teaching geography in the 21st century 🌍 They asked me if I wanted to write a chapter on how to teach geographical skills in secondary school 📝
This week’s flag: Taiwan 🇹🇼 The country was hit by Typhoon Ragasa, which officially was the strongest tropical storm of the year 🌀 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/0N1Bv...
Taiwan 🇹🇼
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This week’s flag: Morocco 🇲🇦 This week, the country became the 60th country to sign the UN’s High Seas Treaty 🌊 Three years ago, countries agreed to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into Marine Protected Areas 💙 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/kCmu9...
Morocco 🇲🇦
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This week's flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 The largest country in the Horn of Africa has made the news after inaugurating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) 🚧 (/1) youtu.be/W2WrXi6_QV8?...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
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