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Webavaition has excellent aerials of Staffordshire and
adjacent counties www.webbaviation.plus.com/Portfolio.htm |
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Staffs Past Track www.staffspasttrack.org.uk
is an historical archive with sources on themes like transport,
industry etc.
It has a range of old and new maps. |
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 3.The
BBC has come up trumps again with the Videonation Archive www.bbc.co.uk/videonation
- and if you enter Stoke on Trent into the search engine you will find two
contrasting perspectives on the city, one from an Iraqi asylum seeker, one
from a Phil [left] who says don't knock my city.
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 4. Coal
Mining in North Staffordshire
http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/coal/
This website is an excellent resource that supports both
the teacher and students involved in the study of unit 22 'Mining'. The unit
of study involves the investigation of the decline in UK coalmining.
The vocabulary is accessible to most children in KS3.
Furthermore, the 'links' page supports gifted and talented students, who can
be stretched by suitable teacher-led tasks exploring the internet further a
field. An interesting feature of the site is the use of sound files -
providing narratives of people who are or were involved in coal production
in North Staffordshire.
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5.Staffordshire County Council www.staffordshire.gov.uk
for planning documents and census data. The best section is
the research part of development services where you can get reports www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/welcome.asp?id=241
A recent one has been published on the quality of life.
The new 'Sustainable Staffordshire' website has been launched
Visit it at: http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/sustainablestaffordshire
It aims to publicise all the work that the County Council does in the Local Agenda 21
and Sustainability sphere, and to highlight the ways in which we already work that are
Environmentally motivated. |
| 6. Newspapers
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| 7. Other councils are here
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 8.
The Government Office for the West Midlands www.go-wm.gov.uk
has useful information and summary statistics for the region and
county. |
 . 9. Glaciation has affected Staffordshire - Find out
how This animation will partly explain the landscape of Cannock
Chase.
What made the Chase what it is? How did this boulder
find itself 200 km from a place where there is similar rock? |
| 10. When is Staffordshire not
Staffordshire? Often images of Dovedale is listed as Derbyshire and
they are of course half right as the boundary is the River. But when
the tourist authority picture 'The Roaches' or the Manifold valley
as Derbyshire, then locals get cross Staffordshire is a substantial piece
of the The Peak District National Park Authority west of the River
Dove www.peakdistrict.org
gives background information on local issues, where to go, what to
see, etc. This database of images from Cressbrook Multimedia www.cressbrook.co.uk/home.htm
comes highly recommended by Kate Russell |
| 11.Can you propose one? |
