How do you know what you don’t know? - Issue 57

The BBC World Service on YouTube, the DTWE Big Christmas Quiz, a virtual IB DP Geography Category 1 workshop I am leading and an AI mapping tool.

Birdwatching while whalewatching, Iceland, July 2025.

For a little while now, the BBC World Service has been putting its podcasts out on YouTube. I am finding the channel a valuable and accessible source of both podcast content and videos for DP Geography (What is climate change?), as well as for DP TOK (such as Why do we lie?) and DP ESS (What happened at Fukushima 10 years ago?).

geographyalltheway.com is excited to partner with Discover the World Education on their Big Christmas Geography Quiz. Back for another year, this hugely popular free resource includes 10 fun, curriculum-linked rounds created by Geography educators and expert Geography organisations.

I contributed the Country Code Top-Level Domains round, helping provide what I feel is a high-quality, engaging activity for all Geography classes. The quiz is completely free to download and ideal for the final week of term, offering festive fun while reinforcing key geographical concepts.

I am leading an International Baccalaureate online Category 1 workshop from Friday, 27th March to Sunday, 29th March 2006. If you are new to IB DP Geography teaching, or know someone who is, all the details are here.

Textomap is an interesting service that I recently came across while researching the Using generative AI as a Geography Teacher webinar I gave for International Geography .training. There is a free version that belongs in every teacher’s toolbox. I like the ability to point the service at the web address of an article and see a map produced of all the locations mentioned. A really quick and helpful way of giving a text-based source a more visual ‘place’ based narrative.