Keep the website Who Is Sick? in your browser favourites, in case any students are feeling off-colour!
Add them to the database and see if any geographical patterns emerge. Someone claims to be feeling a little peaky in Exeter today!
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I’ve made this as part of a forthcoming course for NQTs. Maybe it will be useful to others. There’s hundreds of similar lists - but this one is composed entirely of sites that I find indispensible in my teaching (apart from Remember The Milk - I just like the name!)
The file as a stand alone web page (diagram only)
The file as a Word Document (includes extra notes)
The original Inspiration 8 file (includes hidden notes)
Beacon Dodsworth provide a really interesting dataset called P2 People and Places on their website. Look up UK postcodes to see how the local area is classified. I tried it out with a group of students who were astonished at the results.
I’ve extensively revised and updated my Google Earth based lesson on wind energy:
The latest incarnation of EarthBrowser is in beta testing and looking really interesting. It’s not yet available for public download.
Earth Browser 3 is Flash /Adobe Air based, and in a number of respects will be a genuine alternative to Google Earth, indeed possibly a better classroom tool for studying certain topics, especially weather and tectonics. Here’s a quick preview of how the application is looking at the moment.
EarthBrowser is a delight to use, extremely intuitive and quick in operation. Expanded to full screen on an interactive whiteboard, the virtual globe is stunning. The navigation is hugely enhanced with a neat and attractive draggable menu:
The data sets include comprehensive real time weather information, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, webcams and country borders. The Layers panel in Google Earth by comparison is becoming rather unmanageable - try finding the new Earthquakes layer without a guide!
The Placemarks tab adds several other data sets including Aurora Activity. You can also add your own placemarks. I’ve done this in the screenshot below, ading a photo that I took recently in Tromso:
KML files can be opened by dragging them into Earth Browser, and clicking names or flags in the weather window brings up a related Wikipedia search.
The Placemark menu includes the option to open a Google Map that tracks the Earth Browser view when panned. This is an important feature, partly because the Google Map will display a satellite view at resolutions that Earth Browser can’t manage.
The New Map window (click to enlarge)
I’m very excited about EarthBrowser 3 and will be eagerly awaiting the finished version. The USP for geography teachers is the clean and efficient navigation and essential real-time datasets. I notice that Apple are hosting some useful looking teaching resources for EarthBrowser here.
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