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Key Geography ICT Activities


These ICT Activities for Key Stage 3 Geography can be found on the Links and Activities page for each title in the Key Geography series. Click on the ICT Activity to take you to the relevant page.

New Foundations
New Connections
New Interactions
Places
Extensions
Basics


New Foundations

What is Geography?
Activity Sheet 1.3 - Describing Places
Activity Sheet 1.7 - How good is your world knowledge?
Activity Sheet 1.9 - Places in the News

Weather and Climate
Activity Sheet 2.3 - Online enquiry about the weather
Activity Sheet 2.4b - Cloud spotting online
Activity Sheet 2.8 - What is the latest weather?

River Flooding
Activity Sheet 3.4 - The impact of the 2000 floods
Activity Sheet 3.6 - Using the Environment Agency’s Floodline website
Activity Sheet 3.8 - Bangladesh flood enquiry

Settlement
Extra Activity - How were sites for early settlements chosen?
Extra Activity - How do settlements change with time?
Activity Sheet 4.7 - Create a DTP poster showing land use zones for a town or city
Extra Activity - What are the main types and patterns of urban land use?

Transport
Extra Activity - Traffic in urban areas - is there a solution?

Map Skills
Activity Sheet 7.9 - Online enquiry of your local area

New Connections

Weathering, Rivers and Coasts
Activity Sheet 1.10 - The River Enquiry
Extra Activity - How do rivers shape the land?

Primary Activities
Activity Sheet 2.7 - Farming Crisis
Activity Sheet 2.8 - Virtual Farm Fieldwork
Extra Activity - Betton Farm Visitor Centre and Animal Farm

Secondary Activities
Extra Activity - Choosing the right site - the iron and steel industry

Environmental Concerns
Activity Sheet 4.4 - Who Cares for the Environment?
Activity Sheet 4.5 - Design a Poster for a Conservationist Group
Activity Sheet 4.6 - Why does the Antarctic need protecting?
Activity Sheet 4.10 - The environment enquiry

Kenya, A developing country
Activity Sheet 6.2 - Kenya fact file
Activity Sheet 6.4 - Physical features of Kenya
Activity Sheet 6.7 - Producing a newspaper article about the issues facing the Massai
Activity Sheet 6.9 - Why is Baobab Farn a good example of sustainable development?
Activity Sheet 6.10 - Using ICT to measure levels of development

New Interactions

Hazards
Activity Sheet 2.4 - A leaflet about Mount Etna
Activity Sheet 2.5 - Are all volcanoes identical?
Activity Sheet - 2.7 - San Francisco earthquake report 1989
Activity Sheet 2.11 - The hazards enquiry

Tourism
Activity Sheet 3.8 - The Alps - a winter wonderland?

Japan, a developed country
Activity Sheet 5.4 - Satellite image website
Activity Sheet 5.7 - Whaling - a global environmental issue
Activity Sheet 5.8 - Japan fears a Fuji with no snow
Activity Sheet 5.9 - How interdependent is Japan?

World Development
Activity Sheet 6.2 - Overpopulation in India
Activity Sheet 6.6 - Should we give aid?

Places

Development
Activity one, page 11, How else may development be measured?

Brazil
Activity 5, page 21, The best of Brazil

Kenya
Activity 2, page 45, Holidays in Kenya

Japan
Activity 2, page 89, Japan - a land of volcanoes and earthquakes

Extensions

Settlement
Extra Activity - Scarborough Photo Activity 1
Extra Activity - Scarborough Photo Activity 2
Extra Activity - What are the main types and patterns of urban land use?

The Local Area
Extra Activity - Thorn Park Farm Photo Activity

Basics

River Landforms
Extra Activity - What is Upper Teesdale like?


 



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