The Geography Department
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Geography site links
The Big Hitters!
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The Geography Pages ... is full of links, carefully researched and up-to-date ... and is an ideal first port of call when you are looking things up. This site has been considerably revamped and is now home to Geobloggers! Alan Parkinson has performed great feats with this site.
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The Staffordshire Learning Net is the HQ for geography teachers who want to keep in touch ... go to the online forum for a huge number of suggestions, links and, most valuable of all, support from fellow teachers who are happy to help one another!
SLN resources on Geointeractive resources that arrive via the online forum are made available by David Rayner. |
by David Rayner in Kent is a hugely popular and useful site, and now extended to offer much more in the way of resources.
A sub-site of David's, called Geointeractive, has a collection of resources, for both contribution and subscription. The contribution section is now free and open to all, and with the subscription wing of the site, is pioneering the sharing of resources more widely on the net.
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Pilot GCSE Radical
Geography Blog Tony Cassidy has moved on and re-invented himself on this new site. Feelings of inadequacy prevail amongst the geography community as a result. 'though. There is a wealth of ready-to-use materials, plus really strong sections on teaching and learning and contacts for further involvement. |
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PUPILVISION is produced by Keith Phipps, head of geography at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham, and is an award-winning school site. Recent SoW additions for KS3 are notable.
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Geoworld also maintained by Keith Phipps and a site where examples of exercises that follow the ideas of, and book by, David Leat are available online. A little treasure trove again! |
Noel Jenkins has innovations ready to go, if you are looking for something new to teach. and now
Digital Geography ICT in the geography classroom
http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk ' with Noel moving ahead with his latest interests in Google Earth and GPS in the form of a blog.
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Ian Murray's photograph site - with some free content to look at, and a subscription package that should be snapped up with your e-learning credits.
Now the site has been Highly Recommended by the GA at their 2005 Conference.
Now with a lifetime deal for all existing (and any new) subscribers! |
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Blogs
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Val Vannet's
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Russel Tarr, of activehistory fame, has a site of free templates for creating your own games, diagrams and all forms of interactive classroom fun!
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...now on the navigation bar!
Suffolk's geography site - a place where materials are stored online from across the Key Stages. Not recently updated.
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for KS3 - all the modules.
AQA select Geography
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The Royal Geographical Society's web pages with geographical news in depth. Very useful.
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Some top school sites |
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This site is run by SLN'er Rob Chambers at St Ivo's School, Cambridgeshire.
Rob is the author of the fabulous-
This is a lively site, with lots of links and resources - and a good selection of Penalty Shoot Outs on offer!
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from SCOTLAND
Scalloway High - a site full of great notes.
Geography High more goodies from north of the border. Go to Year 3 data presentation for some good pages on justification of methods! |
A site with plenty for students and teachers alike, Martin Bennett of Internet Geography has also produced some superb resources, so look at the Teacher's page.
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Rob Burn has produced some thoughtful resources and this is a site where the 'goodies' and reflection can both be accessed.
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has a most comprehensive bank of links for each year, as well as awesome downloadable tutorials and student tasks. A superb site!
by Russel Tarr at the International School of Tolouse has got lots of activities lined up for Key Stage 3. |
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A fantastic collection of maps, usually globes, on all aspects of Earth geography. There is also a link to a serious geomorphology site. You can browse this site for a long time!
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The Geography Site David Robinson
Teacher's Virtual School Geography Department Zephyrus - with good coverage of glacial processes. |
A web directory - not recently updated Kevin Hughes
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s-cool , the perfect site to make those one-sheet A4 revision notes......
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Publishers
Nelson Thornes - Secondary Geography
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Geomatics actually lends surveying equipment to schools ... so contact Tom Bramald from the University of Newcastle; he's very keen to get this kit into schools.
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Liverpool Hope University - fieldwork reports.
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Some really nice goodies from the Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online people.
I've downloaded CLEOspector - for labelling jpeg images ... and it looks promising!
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Topics GEO Annual Report of Disasters
http://www.durham-microlights.co.uk/
http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/math_b_course.php
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Geography Globe by Anthony Gristwood
Bishop Heber School Graham Russell
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Geo-World
G-source
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click on the above for his website
If you need a resource on this subject area for AS or A2 - download a demo and check it out for yourself! |
Ken Apthorpe has produced a Coasts CD ... with a number of detailed case studies, workable student exercises, and subject content of the highest possible order.
My view is that there is nothing on the market in the UK remotely close to this resource - the quality of the photographs, for example, is simply stunning. |
