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Key Geography for GCSE Links - Chapter 20 - Maps,
graphs and photos
Ordnance
Survey map skills - pages 280 and 281
Ordnance
Survey website
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
Select the Understanding Mapping section of the
site and find out about the Landranger 1:50 000
or Explorer 1:25 000 OS maps. You can download your
own copy of the symbols for this scale of map.
The site also includes an online guide to improving
your map reading skills, with a basic introduction
to symbols and grid references.
Using photographs in geography
- pages 286 and 287
Online
collections of digital images
Freefoto.com
http://www.freefoto.com/
FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs
for private non-commercial use
on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to
navigate site features 50 main sections with over
1000 sub headings.
Geoimages
Project University of California Berkeley
http://www-geoimages.berkeley.edu/
Collections of images provided from all over the
world to help with the teaching of Geography.
Regolith.com
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/justdesign/home.html
This site provides a collection of digital images
of landscapes.
Mountain
Images
http://www.mountain-images.co.uk/
Galleries of images of mountain landscapes from
Scotland, Lake District, Snowdonia to the Himalayas.
North
Yorks Moors Cam
http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/don.burluraux/index.htm
This is a collection of images of walks all over
North Yorkshire. Visit the archive of walks, which
includes large parts of the North of England, including
the Lake District and Snowdonia.
Lakeland
Cam
http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/main.html
A collection of images updated daily of the Lake
District. This site also includes an archive of
images of the region.
Peak
District Cam
http://www.peakdistrictcam.co.uk/
Mad
about Mountains
http://www.keswick.u-net.com/
A collection of images of mountains mainly of the
Lake District, but also other areas around the world.
EarthCam
- Webcam Network
http://www.earthcam.com/
EarthCam is a global network of live Internet cameras.
EarthCam delivers real time live images of some
of the world's most interesting and unique views
and events. Here is the ultimate experience for
bringing the outside world into the classroom. This
is a truly addictive website. The site has been
designed in a similar way to the Yahoo search engine.
EarthCam allows users to search by keyword or simply
browse through categories and subcategories. You
can also search via 17 local U.S. City Guides or
a world map. Camera sites are categorised under
fourteen general subjects: Arts & Entertainment,
Business, Computer, Discovery Live, Education, Metro,
News, Scenic, Society & People, Space &
Science, Sports & Recreation, Traffic, Weather,
and Weird & Bizarre. Users can see what is happening
around the world right now - 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week.
Staffordshire
Learning Net Windows on the World
http://www.sln.org.uk/wow/
An online collection of images which can be searched
using a series of interactive maps. The images and
descriptions are provided by children.
Satellite images websites
Eduspace
http://www.eduspace.esa.int/eduspace/main.asp?ulang=en
This excellent site provides an introduction to
Remote Sensing, as well as providing a collection
of images for Europe. The site also explains how
the technology can be used to monitor disasters.
NASA’s
Visible Earth site provides a collection of images
grouped in a range of categories
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
USGS
The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data
Center (EDC) Sioux Falls, South Dakota
http://edc.usgs.gov/
Landsat.org,
includes a gallery of images from around the world.
http://www.landsat.org/
Earthshots
– USGS site that provides case studies built
around collections of satellite images showing environmental
change.
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents
The
Operational Significant Event Imagery
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/
This site provides satellite imagery of major environmental
events which can be accessed from categories and
archives.
Using maps and photos together
- page 289
Using the internet to obtain and interpret
OS maps and aerial photos - Activity Sheet
20.5
Multimap
is an online Geographical Information System, which
allows you to access maps and aerial photographs
of places in the United Kingdom at different scales.
You can even view an aerial photograph with a map
overlay to help you identify places.
1.
Log onto the website by typing in the URL into
the address window of your web browser.
http://uk2.multimap.com/home.html
2. Once the Multimap home page
has downloaded, enter the place name of your case
study location and click go, a map will download,
at 1:100 000. Click on the exact location you
want on the map and a 1: 50 000 OS map extract
will appear.
3. Move the mouse over the map,
click the right mouse button, and select copy
from the dialogue box which should have appeared
on your computer screen. Paste the image of the
map into either a word processing or DTP file.
4. Use the software tools to
label key features. Use diagram B on page 288
of the pupil’s book as a guide.
5. You can also use the Multimap
website to obtain vertical aerial photographs
of much of England and Wales. Once you have accessed
the OS map of your case study, click on the aerial
photos button on the Multimap toolbox, a photograph
to the same scale of the map will now download.
6. Copy and paste this aerial
photograph into the same file as your map. Place
the photograph directly underneath the map. Use
the software tools to label features onto the
photograph.
How can we use graphs in geography?
- pages 292 and 293
Using ICT to produce charts to use in Geography
- Activity Sheet 20.6
Statistical
websites
UK National Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
This government website provides official statistics
for the UK. The Learning Zone section includes sets
of data with online activities already provided.
There is also a section about the 2001 Census.
City
of Birmingham Economic data website
http://www.birminghameconomy.org.uk/access/index.htm
UK
tourism statistics
http://www.staruk.org.uk//default.asp
Collections of data about tourism in the UK including
the most popular venues.
GeoHive
http://www.geohive.com/
The site is divided into several parts. There are
three main parts. One dealing with the whole world
and its regions, a second with all major countries
separately and a third with rankings (the most,
largest, longest, wealthiest, etc.). The site has
been developed by Johan van der Heyden as a hobby.
It also includes links to official statistics sites
for countries all around the world.
The
CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
This links takes you to the index page which is
organised alphabetically, when you select a country
you can access a wide range of data including a
map of the country.
United
Nations Statistical Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
USA
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbsum.html
This site is part of the USA census website. It
allows the user to select population data for any
country in the world using a search engine. A very
useful range of data is provided for each country
which can either be printed off onto a sheet of
A4 or can be copied and pasted straight into spreadsheets
for charting. The data provided for each country
includes:
-
birth/death rates
-
the rate of natural increase
-
life expectancy
-
infant mortality rates for 1997 compared with
2005 estimates
-
total population for each decade since 1950
-
population totals by age and sex for 1997 compared
with estimates for 2005.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
This section of the US census Bureau allows the
user to select population pyramids for any country,
it is also possible to select the years to be graphed
and the size of the graphs. Once selected the pyramids
can either be printed, saved or copied and pasted
into other IT applications. The standard output
is pyramids for the selected country for 1997, 2025
and 2050.
Brazilian
Institute of Geography And Statistics
http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/
India
Census website
http://www.censusindia.net/
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