The 7-11 Weblink Guides recommended by Geographers for Geographers

Why 7-11? Not ages 7-11! NOT years 7 to 11! There will be no more than 11 in any web link list and no less than 7.  We have decided that you need quality not quantity. Only in exceptional circumstances will we step out of this. Please let Kate know if there are "dead" or changed links. 

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Websites of the moment

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Websites for geography teachers by geography teachers Some of the best websites for geography teachers are those created and maintained by those who know what they need most in the classroom - other geography teachers! These are some of the best! Richard Allaway Geography All the Way Sarah Black's Geography Clinic Tony Cassidy's Radical Geography projects and Pilot GCSE blog Rob Chamber's GeoBytes Mary Cooch's Games4Geog and Geog4U Adam Lawson and Mary Cooch's Geography at the Movies with contributions from many other teachers! The sister site is GeogDocs Sarah Hack's Scheme of Work Richard Hancock's GeoActive Noel Jenkins Juicy Geography and Digital Geography and Google Earth Blog| Tim Manson's Think Geography! R Moreton's Geography Help Alan Parkinson's Geography Pages and EdExcel A level Keith Phipp's Thinking through Geography David Rayner's GeoResources and GeoInteractive Andrew Stacey's Stacey Peak Media Val Vannet's A Blog's not just for Christmas! and Geography: My Place and Yours Helen Young's Geography Geek Apologies if your site is not listed here. Please send me the details and I'll add it! Thank you

Artemis World Cycle Challenge Mark Beaumont has undertaken a mammoth solo round the world cycle tour  to complete the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by manpower alone and claim a new Guinness record (the current record is 276) and Mark is aiming for 210 days or less! Follow Mark's tour on Artemis World Cycle site or on Val Vannet's Geographical learning journey which is updated daily

There have been some new free geography resources placed on www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk  There are activities for all age groups and the site is easy to navigate and is clearly labelled. Many of these are flash animations and drag and drop activities. (English and Welsh language options available!)

The Spring 2007 edition of Global Eye for primary pupils has a an eye on the Nile, a Journey down the Nile on camera and a focus on Water! As usual this edition is well worth a look and very suitable for pupils www.globaleye.org.uk

The new edition of Global Eye for secondary pupils has a focus on diamonds and and an eye on Lebanon! As usual this edition is well worth a look and very suitable for pupils www.globaleye.org.uk

Discovering Antarctica is a new online interactive teaching tool from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG). The website is aimed at geography teachers and students and features a wide range of themes to utilize and investigate both in classroom learning. It has been developed by the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, British Antarctic Survey and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Polar Regions Unit. Look out for the poster, to accompany the website, which should arrive in your school shortly.  www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk

Live Local is a new website from Microsoft, with aerial photos and maps and in some ways provides higher quality images than Google Earth and also has the benefit of not needing to be downloaded onto the computer first (which has been causing problems on some school networks) http://local.live.com/

Contrasts in South Africa from Swanshurst School in Birmingham was created as a result of two teachers who visited Capetown on a teacher exchange and a resulting link with Ntafufu Senior Secondary school. The website features lots of video footage from Capetown and pupils can easily compare and contrast lifestyles. www.swanshurst.org/southafrica

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The all new 7-11 weblinks for geography

Maps, aerial and satellite images and GIS

• The 7-11 electronic map sites
• The 7-11 aerial photographs and satellite images and remote sensing
• The 7-11 GIS and geo-databases on-line 

General Geography

• 7-11 Animations
• All the "official"  curriculum documents from QCA, DfES, Ofsted etc. 
• Virtual Fieldtrip sites from Matt Amison from St. Margaret Ward Catholic High School
• 7-11 sites for  revision for geography
• 7-11 on-line glossaries for geography
• Last 11 recent events  to keep on top of world perspectives 
• 11 of the best Geography websites created by secondary schools
• Soon! 11 of the best primary school geography websites - which would you recommend?

Physical Geography

• 7-11 Tectonics, Volcanoes and Earthquakes
• 7-11 Weather and Climate locally and beyond 
• 7-11 Rivers
• 7-11 Glaciers
• 7-11 Coasts
• 7-11 Biomes
• 7.11 Rainforests
• 7-11 Savanna and Deserts
• 7-11 Polar and Tundra
• 7-11 Mountains

Human Geography

• 7-11 Population and Migration
• 7-11 Development education
• 7-11 Urban Geography
• Sporting Fever is the site to enhance the teaching of geography through sport.

Environmental Geography

• 7-11 National Parks  
• 7-11 Wind Energy Conflicts
• Saxony on the web [a region of the former East Germany adjacent to Poland and the Czech republic features 'The Black Triangle' and pollution and recovery from it

Places - Worldwide

• 7-11 Australia
• 7-11 Brazil
• 7-11 Canada - the atlas of communities is superb - a forgotten but beautiful country.
• 7-11 China
• 7-11 France submitted by Stuart Purves  Moorside High School
• Links for Iceland can be found at SLN@Iceland
• 7-11 Italy
• 7-11 India
• 7-11 Japan
• 7-11 Kenya Paul Moss, Clayton High School
• 7-11 Malaysia
• 7-11 Pakistan
• 7-11 Slovenia - new EU state
• Learning Africa at www.learningafrica.org.uk It is really leaning resources for both primary and secondary about Africa, partly as a response to G8/Live 8. There's some really good stuff on it. Thanks Greg!
   

• 7-11 Birmingham
• 7-11 Derby
• 7-11 North Wales from Steve Jones Walton Priory Middle School
• 7-11 Sheffield from Alan Parkinson of Kings Lynn
• 7-11 Staffordshire 

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