Using ICT
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Ask families going on holidays, or parents going on business trips, to overseas locations that are geographically interesting, to take the geography departments’ digital camera (after checking insurance) or a disposable camera with them, to build up a stock of useful images. |
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Use PhotoJam to organise a sequence of ‘awe & wonder’ photographs as a starter. Lively transitions can easily be inserted between photos and music can be added if desired. Cliffs (click on Coastal cliffs – Macromedia Projector) provides an example of this approach. |
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If you visit the same area each year
for fieldwork, set up particular points where you can take digital
photos or a digital video panorama each time you visit. In this
way, you can build up a digital archive of change in the area over
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Country information boards |
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Finding out about world population |
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Other information
The DfES’s The standards site provides example geography lessons – produced in collaboration with the Geographical Association – illustrating how ICT can enhance geography. They include lesson plans and resources that can either be used as they stand or adapted to suit individual needs.
The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers website provides ‘developments in teaching’ briefings on GIS and Using ICT in schools.
Latest news on geography and ICT can be found in the Geography newsletters on the BECTa ICT advice for teachers website. The website also contains an ‘ask an expert’ feature titled 'Want to use more ICT in geography?'
The NC in Action website provides guidance on, and examples of, ICT in geography.
Putting you in the picture a Teaching Geography article by Peter Fox on geography teaching strategies using digital photography.
The Chelmer Waterside Development enquiry – developed by the geography department at King Edward VI Grammar School in Essex – illustrates the use of a web-based interface to structure an enquiry.
Photojam allows photographs to be linked together in a sequence with lively transitions between the photographs and the option of adding music. The software has a free trial, after which users have to pay a small fee.
'I’m alright, Jack' is an interactive activity that is part of the BBC’s coverage of climate change issues for schools. Pupils are given different choices about Jack’s lifestyle and the consequences they might have on the environment.
The Bell Museum website provides a fun way to explore sustainable use of water in a national park, for farming, in a city and a riverside settlement.
The Educational Web Adventures website provides an interactive decision-making activity where pupils develop an ecotourism project in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
The Shedd Aquarium website provides an attractively illustrated ‘mystery’ that explores threats to coral reefs and sharks around Apo island in the Philippines.
The Jason Project website has a more sophisticated simulation where pupils need to produce a balanced plan to manage the marine reserve around Anacapa island, California, taking on the roles of various stakeholders such as fishermen, divers, conservationists, kelp processors and government departments.
The Children’s
Museum of Indianapolis website features animated activities that allow
pupils to explore the origins of pumice, igneous and sedimentary rocks
('the mystery of the floating rock') and basic geology ('the mystery of
the golden cube').
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