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World Cup. It's all kicking off...

Just as England opened their World Cup campaign, Milan from the Geographical Association pressed the publish button on a new set of resources that I have written for the GA website. There are so many additional geographical stories emerging each day that the World Cup happens of course, so keep an eye out for them, and if you spot something interesting let me know and I'll add it to the post here as an update. There's an extra Teachit Geography resource here , which was flagged up on their Facebook page. There's also this useful set of ESRI StoryMaps. And you also need to be a bit careful of some of the stories of course. There were some stories about an earthquake that was triggered by Mexican fans. The wording has now changed, and it's more like the fact that perhaps there were some sensors which noticed some movement. The New York Times explained it more accurately... I liked this story too: How did Senegal fans celebrate after their team won the...

Russia 2018

Anyone want to buy some second-hand England 2018 geography resources ? Hardly used ? An interesting resource is this movie below: the short movie used as part of the England bid. Would be good to look at it for cultural / global references... - the power of the brand of some Premiership teams...  What are the messages coming across ? Or how about this one for showing the scale of football in terms of its economic importance to the country, and our culture ? You can also see the bid  movies from the other countries on YouTube... Could be good for comparative work.