Website of month 2002

Website of the month archive 2002

December 2002 - RGS Geography of Geography courses

The RGS-IBG Higher Education Institutions for Geography on a map. If you have students interested in browsing the websites of geography degrees, then what better way than to use this map. It needs a plug in called Autodesk Mapper. seemed simple but as usual school firewalls might be a problem. http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=maineducation

For merely a map of all recognised Universities, University Colleges and Higher Education Colleges in the United Kingdom except for residential colleges within universities. Try this clickable map too. http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html

November 2002 - Geomatics

Stuart Wilson of Chase Terrace High School, Staffordshire put us on to Geomatics which:

promotes the use of surveying equipment in schools;

is offering free loan of equipment to schools including GPS;

describes a series of case studies of how they are used in schools including a series of lessons on coastal management;

You do need to log on to get the full benefit.

http://geomatics.ncl.ac.uk/geomatics.org/geomaticsdotorg/teaching_resources/

October 2002 Neighbourhood Statistics

The new national statistics site has the new census data information - the main totals, by nation, by region, by county and by district are now there including pyramids for all scales. More will be added over the next sixth months.

But the real coup will be that later more and more data will be added to:

Neighbourhood Statistics site - a GIS for neighbourhood statistics site which has a lot of ward level data but not yet the census - phenomenally powerful, a bit tricky to find your way around but watch out in the new year!

For example if you want to know how many family income claimants there are or how many university entrants there were in a ward, you can get it. We will be putting on training with QLS in Spring term 2002 for those who wish to see the power!

Full geographic searching enables this to happen! click to see a sample! This is the map combined with quick statistics!

September 2002

Gavin Richards and a friend of SLN has created this fresh and imaginative site with many teaching resources and ideas. There is a new geo-puzzle which takes some doing and other interactive and participatory ideas. Photographs are always useful and if you are starting an electronic image library, then start here.! I especially like the collection of sound files he has created. Do give it some time to explore. www.geoexplorer.co.uk

June/July 2002

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.

April/May 2002 Database Discovery

An ICT / Geography link up between Bewdley High School, Worcestershire and Haggerston School in Hackney.

This excellent collaborative project is based on the QCA ICT unit 14, (Global communication - negotiating and transferring data). Year 9 pupils in two schools in very diverse parts of the UK worked with their 'remote partner' to collect common, agreed data for a specific topic. Once the data has been collected, it is transferred electronically and merged to form a complete data set. Pupils then produce a report on their joint findings. The results of this work (and some fascinating images of Bewdley and Hackney) can be found on Brian Thomas' website.

The project continues .... this year they swapped databases with a school in Valencia, Spain and continued the email swapping with the London school. Brian hopes that other schools will be able to use the downloads and ideas from his site. The downloads / details on the site will make it easy for other schools to run this project. If other schools want to swap emails and datafiles Brian will be glad to help.

February March 2002

Avery Hill On-line and Sir John Nelthorpe School

The AveryHill GCSE website is now up and running at http://www.averyhill.org.uk/

It has much to recommend it and a link to many aerial photos of the Humberside now East Yorkshire coast as well as images of the East Yorkshire Coast.

Thanks to Peter Humphries, Sir John Nelthorpe School, for all his hard work.

and there is a link to his school geography site which is excellent http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nelthorp/room8/intra/geograph/intro.htm

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