Coxhoe Primary School
Many, many useful resources for
Geography across the age range,
for
learning and teaching
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Geography.htm
MAPE
This site has many resources and
activities for all curriculum areas.
http://www.mape.org.uk/
Primary Geography Page
Recommended by the geographical
Association
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anthony.pickford2/gg/tony.html
Night and Day - real time!
Useful for
seasons day and night and passage of time.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Images of the earth
Nasa's Earth Observing System EOS is enabling an
improved
understanding
of the Earth as an integrated system.
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
U.S. & World News
http://cnn.com
Where in the World?
To hire a car/book a flight/book a
room etc.
http://www.travelocity.co.uk
Explore !!
Further geography sites
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Default.aspx?Subject=12
Snaith Primary School
This school site has many
activities, created for their own use,
to support
work on geography topics through out the school.
Well worth a look.
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/
Local Times around the world
http://times.clari.net.au/
Volcano
The best Volcano
site on the internet?
Up to date images and information
about volcanoes around the world
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
Maps
Geograph
British Isles
The Geograph
British Isles project aims to collect a
geographically
representative photograph for every
square
kilometre of the British Isles.
You can upload a picture or use
the pictures and their location in
classroom
activities.
Don't forget to acknowledge the
ownership of any photos used
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
Virtual Walk in Wales
(1)
follow
this link to all the resources for an activity on the
Teachers Resource Exchange
activity
http://www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.php?request=cmVzb3VyY2UuZnVsbHZpZXc%3D&resourceId=12277
Virtual Walk in Wales
(2)
Straight to the
interactive map of the walk. A model for
children’s
own work perhaps
http://www.wales-walking.co.uk/virtualwalk.htm
RAC
A route planner
http://www.rac.co.uk/web/routeplanner/
Drayton Manor
an
example of a pictorial map, enlarged it can be used to
plan a
day or as inspiration for designing your own
http://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/ParkMap.aspx
Multimap.com
Enter a postcode to pinpoint a
place on a map and an aerial photo
http://multimap.com
The Ordnance Survey site
Free downloadable maps
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/outlinemaps/
Google maps
Enter a post code and follow
roads, motorways and
rivers at
a range of scales. Give direction also.
http://maps.google.com/
Google Earth
An application
to download. Start from space and
zoom into
places for a better look. It shows roads, railways, borders
http://earth.google.com/
Weather
World Climate
Search for weather information
about major world cities
http://www.worldclimate.com
Met Office
http://www.metoffice.com
European and world weather
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/europe.htm
Storms in Australia
Thunderstorm images
http://www.australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/index.html
Water
River World
An excellent source of information
about rivers for
teachers
and children, including Winnie the Pooh's
voyage
down the River Thames with photographs
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geography/rivers/index.html
BBC Barnaby Bear
Where is Barnaby Bear? Games
stories and pictures
around
Barnaby’s travels
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/
River Trent
aerial photographs
http://www.sln.org.uk/trentweb
Water Science for School (USA)
Includes a water cycle
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/
Water Aid site
A small but useful model about a
village getting a water
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/international/learn_zone/games/
Rivers and Coasts
A useful resource including
animated diagrams,
linear
text presentations for children and printable worksheets.
Includes an animated water cycle
activity
http://www.gandljdean.co.uk/ribble/index.html
The River Ribble
from source to sea
An excellent
river resource. Children can follow the course
of the
river ribble using links on a map. Each point is
illustrated
with photographs and short informative text.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/graham.dean20/ribble/index.html
Coastline 2000
A coastline
survey suitable for KS 3&4.
Take a look at the 'beach watch'
for environmental issues
http://www.angliacampus.com/public/sec/geog/coastln/index.php
Places
Rutland
on line
http://www.rutland-on-line.co.uk/
St
Lucia
One of many sites about this
beautiful island
http://www.turq.com/stlucia.html
Dorset's Antarctica
project
http://www.dorset-lea.org.uk/projects/scottbase/
Environment
Dumptown
Encourage the town to recycle and
see the benfits
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/gameintro.htm
The National Energy Foundation
A useful site for information about
energy saving.
Look for the renewable Energy
Education Kits in the schools
section
and the quiz in the Energy Advice
http://www.nef.org.uk/index.asp
Environmental issues
paper and
online activities
http://www.e4s.org.uk/choose.htm
Transport
Young TransNet
Uses IT and the Internet to assist
children and
young people in transport research
and action.
http://www.youngtransnet.org.uk/