Geography

It has its feet in the ground and its head in the clouds.
Valerie Banks

Geography surrounds us: on the world map on your classroom wall, in events on the news, or the changes taking place in your local area and further afield. Geographers strive to better understand the connections between the world's people, places and environments and the interactions taking place between them.

To help us understand our world we ask questions such as; Where is this place? Why is it like this? How is it connected with other places? How is this place changing? and Why are these changes taking place? We like to zoom between the local and the global scales and are fascinated with maps, not just to find out where places are but to also show how places are connected, their human and physical characteristics, and the differences between them.

So if you've ever wondered where your ipod was made, where the plastic in your recycling bin ends up or why climate change is on the news you've already been developing your geographical understanding.