Thursday 8 December 2011

Settlement resource for A2

This website is a great resource to teach about settlement both at GCSE and A-Level

Settlement in Newcastle

Sunday 6 November 2011

Tuesday 11 October 2011

One world many stories

One world many stories is developed by google earth showing the variety of ways it has been used.

One world many stories

Sunday 25 September 2011

Sustainable Olympics

The RGS has created some excellent resources about how the Olympics will be sustainable

Sustainable Olympics

Supertoilet!!!!

Want to learn more about water and sanitation!

Watch Supertoilet!!!

Waterwise

Waterwise is an interactive game that allows you to find how much water you use looking at ways of becoming more sustainable

Waterwise

Thursday 1 September 2011

Quizzes

Click the link to play a variety of games for various topics in geogrpahy

Quizzes

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Geoclip - mapping software

This mapping site is an excellent GIS tool for comparing different areas of the USA and UK

Geoclip

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Sunday 17 July 2011

Maps for Free

This online resource allows you to view anywhere in the world and generate a series of layers about the specific areas.

Maps for Free

Olympics 2012

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has a variety of resources including interactive maps of the Olympics, information about the homes, communities and the future for the local area.

Olympics 2012

Forest Fire Simulator

The forest fire simulator is a nice tool that allows you to map different scenarios and manage them.

Forestfire simulator

Weatherspark

Weatherspark is an online resouLinkrce that shows the recent weather in an area through a variety of maps and graphs

Weatherspark

Wordstat

Wordstat is an online resource where you can access various facts such as population data about countries

Wordstat

Student worksheets for projects

This website has a large collection fo worksheets that allow students to plan and reflect on group work and projects

Various worksheets

Where the Hell is Matt?

Where the Hell is Matt? is a series of videos which make great starters where students have to guess where matt is

Where the Hell is Matt?

Classtools

Classtools is an excellent resource which allows you to create various resources including venn diagrams, post it notes, games

Classtools

Trade Ruler

The Trade Ruler is a game that allows you to picka country and produce various resources to increase your wealth. What ideas can you learn from this game

Trade Ruler

Traveller IQ Challenge

The Traveller IQ Challenge tests your knowledge of different places around the world

Traveller IQ Challenge

Energyville

Energyville is a game that looks at various issues including the different impacts of energy sources

Energyville

Race Against Global Poverty

Race against global poverty is a game that looks at fair trade

Fair Trade Game

Against All Odds

Against all Odds is a game which looks at migration and can be a great tool to teach some of the problems migrants face

Against all Odds

McDonalds Video Game

McDonalds video game is a great resource to teach about trade

McDonalds video game

Development Game: Darfur

Darfur is dying is a game that highlights some of the problems of development

Darfur is Dying

Using Google Earth for Coursework

Noel Jenkins has created an excellent resource that shows you ways of using google earth in your coursework

Using Google Earth

Global Peace Index

This website by vision of humanity has various sources of data including an interactive map

Global Peace Index

The Future for Britain?

The museum of London has created a series of postcards about how climate change could affect Britain.

Postcards from the future

Geograph

Geograph is an excellent online resource where you can view any part of britain and find photos of the area.

Geograph Britain

Saturday 16 July 2011

Motivational Posters

The online software allows you to create posters about any topics

Motivational Poster Software

Montages

An excellent starter is to creat a montage about a given topic and then get students to guess what the topic is about

Google Montage

Field Sketching Application

The software by Photo Pencil Sketch allows you to upload photos and convert them to field sketches

Online Field Sketches

Mapbuilder

Mapbuilder is an online application brought to you by OS openspace that allows you to build maps

Mapbuilder

Wildfires in the USA

Geomac is a website that provides online maps about current wildfires in the USA

Geomac

Hurricane Katrina

The USGS has some excellent information about hurricane Katrina including images

USGS Hurricane Katrina Information

GIS teacher resource - Africa

The resources from the USGS are great for teaching students about GIS.

You will need Arcviewer to make use of the resources

Africa GIS

GIS explanation

Worldmapper

Worldmapper is a website that allows you to view various maps where the maps are resized to the specific categories

Worldmapper

Tourism Case Studies

Global Eye has some excellent casLinke studies for tourism including St Lucia and Belize focusing on sustainable tourism

Global Eye

Thursday 9 June 2011

Japan Tsunami Project

The criteria for the assessment is listed below


Create a display on A3 paper about the Japan Tsunami of 2011.

Use information that can be found around the room and from the front desk to help you complete the display.

4 points = Images/diagrams of a good quality (at least 2, relevant to the work)

4 points = Explain the causes of the tsunami (must use keywords)

6 points = Explain the effects of the tsunami (must use keywords and identify several different effects)

4 points = Explain the knock on effects (how Japan has responded to the Tsunami)

1 point = clear title and name on display

1 point = display being clear and having the wow factor

(EXTENSION) For level 6-7s = You need explain what the future is for Japan and do a mini evaluation of your display

Monday 6 June 2011

Sustainable Tourism

This interactive website by the BBC allows you to learn about hhow different industries can become more sustainable

BBC sustainable tourism

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Climate4classrooms

Climate4classrooms is an excellent teaching resource. there are various resources that looks at the causes, effects and the solutions to climate change.

Climate4change

Discovering Antarctica and the Arctic

Discovering Antarctica and the Arctic is a great website that allows you to view various videos and resources about Antarctica.

Discovering Antarctica

Discovering the Arctic

Tuesday 24 May 2011

GIS teacher resource

Below you will find a link to a GIS resource which will make an excellet tool for teachers

Westminster - various maps of westminster which could be used for specific case studies from crime to land use

Japan tsunami 2011 Images

This site contains various images showing the beofer and after effects of the tsunami on various areas of Japan

What effects can you spot?

Japan Tsunami before and after images

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Challenge

This website has some great ideas how you could reduce, reuse and recycle.

Waste Challenge

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Japan facts and information

This website contains various sources of information all about Japan

Japan information

Learn Japanese place names

This interactive map has the names of various places in Japan spoken in Japanese

Japanese Audio Map

Interactive map of Japan

This website contains an assortment of excellent photos, place names and interesting facts so you can learn about Japan

Japan interactive map

Sunday 24 April 2011

Guerilla Geography

Guerilla geography is a through provoking method of promoting geography

Learning Tool Generator

The Learning Tool Generator is an excellent resource for generating methods to present information.

Learning Tool Generator

Thursday 31 March 2011

Rivers, coasts and map skills games

This website is an excellent resource for learning some key geographical skills such as annotating photographs while playing quizzes and other games. Rivers, coasts and map skills games

River, desert and mountain location game

Do you know the location fo the worlds rivers, mountains and deserts? Test your knowledge to see how much you know Desert, Mountain and river test

Monday 28 March 2011

Climate Change information

This website is an excellent resource for learning about what climate change is, the causes and effects of climate change

Climate change facts

Sea Level Rise

This website allows you to view sea level rise at continental and global scales for the next 100 years.

Sea Level Rise

Sunday 27 March 2011

National Park Information

Click the various links to find information about National Parks

Peak District

Yorkshire Dales

Limestone features and maps

Shanty Town Development

This animation show how informal settlements like shanty towns develop over time

Shanty Town Development

Popexpo - Population of the World Facts

This website is an amazing interactive resource to teach about population.

Click the link to learn more

Popexpo

Antartica

Click the link to discover what Antartica is like

Discover Antartica

Dirty water video

Japan Tsunami 2011

Click the links to find various sources of information including videos of the disasters

Japan earthquake map

Video effects

River Project

Your rivers project should contain the following: 1. Front cover 2. How rivers form 3. The river processes 4. Upper course features - waterfalls, gorges 5. Middle course features - meanders, ox-bow lakes 6. Lower course features - Esturies, salt marshes, deltas 7. Comparison looking at how the river changes along its course (speed of water, height of land) 8. Case Studies - famous rivers e.g. Nile, Amazon 9. Summary 10. Bibliography (where you got your information from) 11. Glossary (keywords used and meanings) Click the links to find some information that may help you with your projects River Trent from source to mouth Famous river facts and information

Energy Project

Your energy projects should contain the following:

1. Front Cover
2. What are the different energy sources?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
4. What is global warming?
5. How will climate change effect people and the environment?
6. What are peoples opinions about climate change?
7. How can global warming and other impacts to the environment be reduced?
8. Summary
9. Glossary and Bibliography
10. Where to find more information

You can find more information about different energy types from the following links:

Different Energy Types


Tuesday 15 March 2011

Tuesday 8 February 2011

Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull caused a range of impacts to people.

Click the link to find various sources of information about the eruption

BBC map and information of impacts


Further case study information

Tuesday 1 February 2011

MEDC vs LEDC Earthquake Project

Using the information below create a mini report using powerpoint/word or publisher answering the following question.

Question:
Explain how the impacts of earthquakes are different between an MEDC (More Economically Developed Country) and an LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country)

Mark Scheme:

4 marks for giving information about the countries (population, GDP, death rate, birth rate) and the earthquakes locations and size

8 marks for explaining how the impacts were different between the two earthquakes including information about how the earthquakes affected the economy, people and the environment

5 marks for explaining what can be done to reduce the impact of earthquakes

3 marks for presentation including images of the impacts and ways of reducing the impacts

Total: 20 marks

Weblinks

San Francisco earthquake facts

San Francisco earthquake facts part 2

Haiti Earthquake Facts

Haiti earthquake facts part 2

Country information from the CIA Factbook

Once completed email the projects to MCooper@brakenhale.bracknell-forest.sch.uk

Coral Reef Games

Click the links to play various games about coral reef ecosystems

Various coral reef games about adaptations and different species

Coral reef exploration

Coral Reef Project

Using the weblinks below to find information to answer the following questions:

1) What threats are there to coral reefs?

2) What threats are there at different scales to coral reefs? (local and global scale)

3) Get some pictures to show the threats to coral reefs and the state some coral reefs are in.

Weblinks:

Coral Reef information

Coral Reef facts

Coral Reef threats

Coral Reef threat information

Coral Reef threat information part 2

Coral Reef threat information part 3

Saturday 22 January 2011

Thursday 13 January 2011

Floodsim

FloodSim puts you in control of all flood policy decisions and spending in the UK for 3 years. Whether its deciding how much money to allocate to flood defences, deciding where to build houses, or how best to inform people about the risk of flooding, you are in control.
FloodSim is a serious game with the aims to raise awareness of the vast number of issues surrounding flood policy and Government expenditure and to increase citizen engagement through an accessible simulation.


Build a bridge to prevent damage from earthquakes

This simulation allows you to construct a bridge and trial various types and safety features to try and reduce the damage earthquakes can cause to the bridge.

Engineering for earthquakes

Life as a farmer in an LEDC

Play this game which is a simulation of what life would be like for a farmer in an LEDC

3rd World Farmer

BBC Dimensions

BBC dimensions is a great resource at showing the scale of recent events and places.

BBC Dimensions

Hurricane Tracker

This website keeps track of any recent hurricanes. The website tracks the wind speed and category of the hurricane.

Hurricane Tracker

What would you do in an earthquake?

This game allows you to protect your home against an earthquake. How will you make prevent damage to your house?

Shakeoutgame

Build a Quake

This earthquake management game allows you to see how an earthquake affects buildings built on different types of ground and ways of of reducing the damage to the building.

Earthquake Construction

build your own volcano

Virtual volcano allows you to build your own volcano and watch it erupt.

What different types of volcano can you make?

Virtual volcano

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Sunday 9 January 2011

Water alert the game

Water alert is a decision making game wher eyou have to manage the villages water resources to provide clean safe water to the community.

Click the link to play water alert.

Water Alert

Haiti Earthquake

Click the link to find facts and information about the Haiti Earthquake

Why was the earthquake so deadly?

Water Cycle

Click the link to view various resources about the water cycle

Water cycle animation


Key word diagram fo water cycle

Water cycle penaly shoot-out game

Water cycle key term quiz

Mount St Helens panorama

Click the link to view a panorama of Mt St Helens after the eruption

Mt St Helens Panorama