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Secondary Geography - Internet Links
Module 7 |
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Anglia Campus Geography Material |
A subscription service with a free sample of geography material on coastlines. |
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BECTa |
Geography/ICT Curriculum information on the BECTa web site On-line reviews of over six hundred educational CD-ROM titles, |
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Curriculum Online |
Geography curriculum material online |
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Education Quest |
Links to many educational web sites with short reviews of each site. |
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Encarta Encyclopaedia |
The popular Microsoft encyclopedia. There are restrictions on free use. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica |
The whole of the Encyclopaedia Britannica featuring regularly updated news and features and recommendations. |
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European School Net |
Promotes school partnerships across the European Union for shared projects. |
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Further Education Resources for Learning (FERL) |
A Further Education resource with useful links, suitable for use at Key Stage 4 and A-level. |
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Geography CTI Centre |
Higher education it discipline centre, now a Learning and Teaching Support Network subject centre. A wide range of links |
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Geography Exchange |
Geographical information covering aspects of physical geography created by teachers. |
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Geography Index |
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GeoResources |
Case studies and many links for key stage 3, GCSE and A-level. |
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National Curriculum Geography |
Documentation including orders, schemes of work and archive material |
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Royal Scottish Geographical Society |
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The Geographical Association |
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The Internet Geographer |
A directory for geography teachers and students, also a FAQ page ,a regular quiz, and a list of links. Each is evaluated for a recommended Key Stage. |
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The Probert Encyclopaedia |
A free online encyclopaedia requiring no registration. It is an excellent resource, primarily for journalists. |
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Virtual Teachers Centre |
vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?temid=64 vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?temid=85 |
VTC Gegraphy area Enhancing Geography with ICT Case Studies with practical ideas for integrating ICT into the curriculum. Internet resources for ICT. |
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Ordnance Survey |
Provides maps of Britain that enable you to zoom in to a particular place up to a scale of 1:35,000. The service is only for personal or limited business use. |
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Multimap |
A to Z of the whole British Isles |
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UK Globe |
An international programme, encouraging schools throughout the world to measure aspects of their local environment and report their results over the Internet |
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UK Street Map |
British A to Z |
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US Globe |
Established by US vice-president Al Gore in 1994. The international programme encouraging schools throughout the world to measure aspects of their local environment and report their results over the Internet. Suitable for pupils aged eight to 18, there are full guides for both teachers and pupils, and a list of participating schools. International scheme for schools to contribute data about the home area |
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Disaster! Finder |
The NASA Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program - a contradiction in terms? - has extended the term "disaster" to include landslides, drought, epidemiology, avalanches, refugees and many hazards. Some sites recommended are too complex or specialised for pupils; others would make good case studies for older students. |
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Earth and Moon viewer |
Computer-generated images as if from space including the terminator in real-time |
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Natural Hazards |
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WWF Global Network |
World-Wide fund for nature |
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Africam |
Many permanent and mobile web cams in southern Africa, with links to others alternative natural environments |
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Virtual Galapagos |
www.terraquest.com/ galapagos/ |
Visit the Galapagos without moving more than a finger (Broken link. Use an online search engine to try out other 'Virtual Galapagos' sites) |
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Volcano world |
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The British Geological Survey: UK earthquakes |
A wide variety of information including a list of recent UK earthquakes, also shown on an map; also recent world earthquake events, reports, seismograms and seismicity maps. |
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Edinburgh University GIS Earthquake Locator |
An up-to-date listing of recent worldwide earthquakes, including locations, magnitudes and depths. The Earthquake locator is a Geographical Information System linked to the National Earthquake Information Center, Colorado, USA. The user can 'zoom' in to find the location of earthquakes. |
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The Mount St Helens volcanic eruption (USA) |
Information on Mount St Helens before, during and after the 1980, sub-divided into monitoring volcanoes, lava domes and ash eruption sections.High quality GIF images, QuickTime and MPEG video clips showing ash plumbs, mudflows and panoramas. |
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Nevada Seismological Laboratory (USA) |
Information on recent earthquakes in Western USA and around the world. Earthquake FAQ's and a series of lecture notes including photographs, diagrams and satellite images are available |
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SCIGN Earthquake Education Module (USA) |
Southern Californian Integrated GPS Network Education Module, it focuses on the use of remote sensing as a means to study seismic activity, more suited to A-level students. There are a number of modules available on plate tectonics and earthquakes, including animation sequences. |
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USGS Earthquake Site (USA) |
US Geological Survey offers up-to-date global earthquake information (FAQ's), including maps and photographs. In the 'More about earthquakes' link there is an extremely useful resource on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, also the Loma Prieta earthquake, containing information and photographs of the 1989 earthquake, its consequences in terms of rebuilding and earthquake detection, are also investigated. |
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Volcanoes - can we predict volcanic eruptions? |
QuickTime video clips of volcanic eruptions and interactive activities explaining volcano formation and what happens during volcanic eruptions. A number of case studies are available which link to a global map, suitable for Key Stage 4 pupils. |
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Volcano World |
Current Eruptions toAsk a Volcanologist section, a guide to building models and lesson ideas (under Teaching) are useful. |
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Essential Guide to Rocks |
Includes an interactive timeline showing continental drift, experiments and 10 virtual walks around Britain which trace the origins of the stone used to build towns and cities. |
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Natural History Museum Earth Lab |
An educational resource allowing students to investigate UK geology on-line. It is a database of more than 2000 rocks, minerals and fossils. |
Themes - weather and climate
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Atlantic Hurricanes |
The Atlantic hurricane season with maps and up-to-date information. A sea temperature map of the area surrounding the US and weather satellite images of the US East Coast, Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico are available. The Atlantic hurricane names for this season are provided, together with general information on what a hurricane is and how hurricanes are ranked in size. Past Atlantic hurricane track maps and information for individual years are also available. |
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METEOSTAT |
Copy of METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images from The University of Nottingham |
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NOAA El Nino Theme Page |
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association site with access to many educational activities. Links to NOAA information on El Nino, FAQ's on global warming and educational graphics on climate change |
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Other Weather Web Sites: |
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Royal Meteorological Society |
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The Met Office |
Designed to aid teachers and pupils in extending their understanding and knowledge of weather and climate, not only in the UK but also around the world. |
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UK Tornadoes and Storms |
The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation site with colour photographs of recent UK storm and tornado events. The FAQ's section provides information on El Nino, global warming, severe weather and tornadoes. |
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USA Today: Hurricane and Tornado Information |
A weather resource with tornado and hurricane information relating to the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific regions. The 'understanding hurricanes' section provides information on what a hurricane is, its lifecycle and also associated storm surges.. |
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Weather Station |
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Discover Railtrack |
Educational web site for primary and secondary schools, teachers |
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QLS Internet Geography |
education.guardian.co.uk/ netclass/schools/geography/ 0,5607,97536,00.html |
Geography across Staffordshire, with plenty to offer teachers across the rest of Britain. An enquiries section offering a variety of topics with teaching aids and links to relevant websites. |
Streetmaps |
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UKVillages |
Local community information for the UK |
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Lonely Planet Online |
Tourism guide online in the characteristic Lonely Planet irreverent style |
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National Farmers Union web site |
The NFU has assembled nine case studies, in English and Welsh, of different types of farm. A tour of a dairy farm for primary pupils and a Filipino farm study are also online. At secondary level, these tackle the economic decisions made by farmers and would make good case studies at key stage 4. |
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Tourism concern |
An organisation promoting awareness of the impact of tourism on people and their environments |
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4 Seasons |
School-based weather projects, and a range of environmental education resources for schools. |
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Detr's Global Warming Website |
What Global warming is all about as well as information for projects and course work. |
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Envirolink |
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NASA: Global Warming Module (USA) |
This problem-based learning module investigates issues of global warming with resources available including Excel datasets, graphs and Landsat images. Other natural hazard related modules available in this series include volcanoes, severe weather, and hurricanes. |
Task 11 (Optional)
- Using the list of hypertext links, devise a more useful way of organising or categorising them.
- What headings would be useful to you?
You might consider functions, potential usefulness, topics, age group, scheme of work ..
- Copy the table using your organisation strategy and use it as the basis of your personal favourite bookmarks.
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Aspects of the Internet include:
- Electronic Mail (email)
- Web-boards / Forums / Newsgroups
- Chat Rooms
- Conferencing: Video and Web telephony
- File transfer
- World Wide Web
- ECommerce
How might each be useful in supporting learners in geography?
Teaching and learning
Professional development
Management
Assessment and recording
Research
Electronic Mail
Exchange of resources
Collaborative learning
Dissemination
Remote reporting
Electronic surveys
Web-boards / Forums / Newsgroups
Topic discussion
Remote training groups
Topic discussion
Agreement trialling
Focussed discussion
Chat Rooms
Live debating
Tutoring / Mentoring
On-line meetings
Moderation
Sample interviewing
Conferencing: Video and Web telephony
Live discussion
Remote training
On-line meetings
Remote assessment
Sample interviewing
File transfer
Resource exchange
Access to training material
Document exchange
Collation of data
Data exchange
World Wide Web
Access to classroom resources
Access to primary information sources
Access to guidance and support material
Access to local and national data
On-line data entry
ECommerce
Purchase of resources
Subscription to professional bodies
Conference registration and payment
Examination registration
Purchase of census / audit data
table after J. Backwell, 2000
Potential benefits for education
(extracts taken from the BBC Webwise Issues page)
- access to masses of factual data presented in an exciting interactive way,
- bringing the rest of the world directly into the classroom,
- enabling positive and long term contact with people from other countries and cultures,
- providing practical web-based resources to support for learning in any curriculum area,
- promoting the sharing of good practice and providing teachers with the latest advice and information.
- Where do you see ICT in geography education going?
- It is useful to look at the developments in technology and application but it is important to see this in a professional light, to look for new opportunities in learning and teaching experiences to enhance what already takes place. Equally developments that do not support learning should be scrutinised as to their worth to learners.
- How do you feel about this?
- Professional judgement is very important in the successful adoption of ICT developments, as well as becoming excited about possibilities their pedagogic value must be proven before full scale use and the investment of valuable resources, not least time. A healthy, critical but not prejudicial consideration is vital.
- Where do you see yourself in this?
- With developments in educational ICT a view of professional and personal development priorities and aspirations is important so that the development might be seen in a context. It allows us to modify a tacit personal development plan if necessary and consider exploiting developments in a meaningful way.