Sarah Larsen 🌎
@sarahlarsen74.bsky.social
Geography 🌎 and RE teacher • NPQLTD • Teaching and Learning • Evidence-informed • Mum of ASC teen girls • Edubook contributor • ResearchED speaker • Former SCITT subject lead mentor and Link Tutor • Blog: https://sarahlarsen.school.blog/ 📌🖊️
Posting these videos on here because they are too big to email them to myself and this is the only way to transfer them to a computer!! Feel free to pinch - river in its upper course in the Brecon Beacons! 🌎
September 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Posting these videos on here because they are too big to email them to myself and this is the only way to transfer them to a computer!! Feel free to pinch - river in its upper course in the Brecon Beacons! 🌎
Spent the day in school today excitedly beginning to think about teaching some lower school geog for the first time in a few years. Whilst I’ve still taught KS4, I’m really looking forward to lighting some fires with the younger ones and convincing as many as possible to pick it as a GCSE option🔥🌎
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Spent the day in school today excitedly beginning to think about teaching some lower school geog for the first time in a few years. Whilst I’ve still taught KS4, I’m really looking forward to lighting some fires with the younger ones and convincing as many as possible to pick it as a GCSE option🔥🌎
Pete Wharmby sums it up perfectly with his graphic here… ⬇️
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pete Wharmby sums it up perfectly with his graphic here… ⬇️
Couldn’t have asked for better weather today at Eastbourne for our y10s to collect their physical fieldwork data. ☀️ Recent beach reprofiling meant some unexpected results. Prevailing wind from the SW yet shingle was higher on NE side of each groyne, not SW…
April 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Couldn’t have asked for better weather today at Eastbourne for our y10s to collect their physical fieldwork data. ☀️ Recent beach reprofiling meant some unexpected results. Prevailing wind from the SW yet shingle was higher on NE side of each groyne, not SW…
I may be a human geographer, but I have a real soft spot for learning about tectonic processes and their impact. The @discoverthewild.bsky.social session at #GAConf25 today focussed on a town I’ve been to many times - Grindavik, Iceland.
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I may be a human geographer, but I have a real soft spot for learning about tectonic processes and their impact. The @discoverthewild.bsky.social session at #GAConf25 today focussed on a town I’ve been to many times - Grindavik, Iceland.
Looking forward to this time next week at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social #GAConf25 where I’ll be speaking about and inviting delegates to share their students’ misconceptions. How can we find out what they are and what can we do to address them? Come and join me! 🌎
April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Looking forward to this time next week at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social #GAConf25 where I’ll be speaking about and inviting delegates to share their students’ misconceptions. How can we find out what they are and what can we do to address them? Come and join me! 🌎
I’ve dispensed with the zip up wallets for my MWBs. Was too difficult to keep tabs on lids on pens and wallets were extraneous load. Now part of my exit routine is that nobody leaves their desk until boards are stacked with pens on top ready for next class to immediately begin their Do Now task.
April 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ve dispensed with the zip up wallets for my MWBs. Was too difficult to keep tabs on lids on pens and wallets were extraneous load. Now part of my exit routine is that nobody leaves their desk until boards are stacked with pens on top ready for next class to immediately begin their Do Now task.
Pin hole camera worked and the clouds stayed away!! With a bit of squinting, the ‘bite’ mark of the moon across the sun can be seen! #partialsolareclipse.
March 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Pin hole camera worked and the clouds stayed away!! With a bit of squinting, the ‘bite’ mark of the moon across the sun can be seen! #partialsolareclipse.
Make shift wave tank (glue box!) filled with mud and stones to demonstrate transportation, deposition and sorting today. Cloudy brown water cleared by the end of the lesson to demonstrate deposition of fine material to perfection!! Worked a treat under the visualiser! 🌎 #geographyteacher
March 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Make shift wave tank (glue box!) filled with mud and stones to demonstrate transportation, deposition and sorting today. Cloudy brown water cleared by the end of the lesson to demonstrate deposition of fine material to perfection!! Worked a treat under the visualiser! 🌎 #geographyteacher
Back to basics: no Power Point presentation, just pen, paper and a visualiser to teach the processes of erosion and transportation. Explaining and questioning as I go. 🌎 #geographyteacher
March 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Back to basics: no Power Point presentation, just pen, paper and a visualiser to teach the processes of erosion and transportation. Explaining and questioning as I go. 🌎 #geographyteacher
A rudimentary wave tank this morning (container, water, visualiser and a bit of puff 💨 !) to demonstrate the effect of wind in wave creation. Simple, but visually effective! 🌊 🌎
March 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A rudimentary wave tank this morning (container, water, visualiser and a bit of puff 💨 !) to demonstrate the effect of wind in wave creation. Simple, but visually effective! 🌊 🌎
This graphic has just made me finally realise what an ‘equinox’ is!! (I’m a human geographer, if that’s a good enough excuse not to have known this before today!! 😬🌎)
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This graphic has just made me finally realise what an ‘equinox’ is!! (I’m a human geographer, if that’s a good enough excuse not to have known this before today!! 😬🌎)
My teenagers know their nerdy mum too well! A superb birthday gift from them - so many fantastic examples of brutalist architecture to browse through! 🌎
March 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My teenagers know their nerdy mum too well! A superb birthday gift from them - so many fantastic examples of brutalist architecture to browse through! 🌎
Teaching deindustrialisation to my GCSE class, I decided to share some of my own holiday snaps (Hafod Morfa copper works in Swansea - ever the geographer!) from the summer. Student asked at the end of the lesson if they could get their phone out to show me some they’d taken whilst on holiday. 1/2
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Teaching deindustrialisation to my GCSE class, I decided to share some of my own holiday snaps (Hafod Morfa copper works in Swansea - ever the geographer!) from the summer. Student asked at the end of the lesson if they could get their phone out to show me some they’d taken whilst on holiday. 1/2
NPQLTD passed!! ✅ 🎉
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
NPQLTD passed!! ✅ 🎉
Rivers of hail and rain earlier this afternoon in Reigate… 😬
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Rivers of hail and rain earlier this afternoon in Reigate… 😬
That’s tropical! Look at what Scotland’s getting!! 🥶😱
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That’s tropical! Look at what Scotland’s getting!! 🥶😱
Snow in West Sussex is so rare that we come out of our houses to just stand and experience it when it happens! First snow for years!! ⛄️ #weatherwatch
January 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Snow in West Sussex is so rare that we come out of our houses to just stand and experience it when it happens! First snow for years!! ⛄️ #weatherwatch
One of my favourite things to do is to poke around disused industrial or railway-related sites. Finally managed to spend some time doing just that at a spot near me on the Downs Link today (former Guildford to Shoreham line that fell victim to Dr Beeching in 1966). 🚂
December 26, 2024 at 8:51 PM
One of my favourite things to do is to poke around disused industrial or railway-related sites. Finally managed to spend some time doing just that at a spot near me on the Downs Link today (former Guildford to Shoreham line that fell victim to Dr Beeching in 1966). 🚂
The votes are in and we have a winner! 🥧🎄 Success criteria seemed to change every week but the local small business beat the big chains hands down! @paulclinepsy.bsky.social I’m wondering if you’ve found similar?!
December 16, 2024 at 7:58 PM
The votes are in and we have a winner! 🥧🎄 Success criteria seemed to change every week but the local small business beat the big chains hands down! @paulclinepsy.bsky.social I’m wondering if you’ve found similar?!
@jtavassoly-marsh.bsky.social looking resplendent on Christmas jumper day today although technically not quite sticking to the stipulated criteria of ‘jumper OR a single Christmassy item’! 🎄🎄🤣
December 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
@jtavassoly-marsh.bsky.social looking resplendent on Christmas jumper day today although technically not quite sticking to the stipulated criteria of ‘jumper OR a single Christmassy item’! 🎄🎄🤣