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Many thanks to Alexandra Chapman from Hartsdown Technology College , Margate, for producing this excellent end-of-term PowerPoint quiz, and sharing it with us. The Geography Christmas quiz takes about an hour to complete, so you may wish to move answer...
Quake Shakes shows you recent worldwide earthquake activity and displays them on a map with info on location, date, time and size. Earthquakes of various magnitudes are displayed with different coloured dots, giving you a dramatic visual record of the...
View the following places in 360 degree interactive panoramas: The Roman Colosseum Italy The Great Wall. China Petra Jordan - the forgotten City Taj Mahal, India Machu Picchu, Peru Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Chichén Itzá, Mexico http://www...
27 schools from Kent and around the World took part in the "24 hour weather around the World Blog." Publishing comments and images of the weather on the project blog, NEN Gallery and Google Maps the activity highlights how new technologies and...
We have highlighted www.geograph.org.uk before but it is worth mentioning again. It has grown into a huge resource of pictures freely available under the Creative Commons Licence . (Many Flickr users have also chosen to offer their work under a Creative...
Tony Cassidy has created a fantastic powerpoint slide with multiple live streaming webcams. He has an example on his blog as well as instructions for making your own. Image your students faces when they walk into the classroom to see this on the interactive...
The Kent Eco-Schools Project programme links well to Geography and Science and also PSHE. The Kent Schools Action On Climate Change pack and pledge is available either through the www.kent.gov.uk/ecoschools page or on www.kent.gov.uk/climatechange under...
woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/riversevern Join Winnie the Pooh and his two friends, Berty Beaver and Percy Penguin, as they travel down the River Severn . Ideal for learning about the different features of a river. This is the sequel to Pooh's trip...
I was contacted by a colleague who enquired if anyone was interested in the collaborative writing competition being run by Think Quest Details can be found here: http://thinkquest.org/competition/narrative/index.html but the ideas are noted below Create...
More than 2,000 clips from BBC programmes on Learning Zone Broadband ready to play in your classroom. BBC Class Clips www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ See also: Britain From Above See your world from the air. Great resources for geography, history and...
Images of England is a ‘point in time’ photographic library of England’s listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. You can view over 300,000 images of England’s built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths...
Forty schools from around the world are taking part right now in " Weather around the World ." www.segfl.org.uk/microsites2/view_project.php?id=95 Many of the schools have already published work on their project web pages including: Peponi House...
Embedding ICT across the curriculum Kent Weather Watch 2008-9 A project for primary and secondary pupils around the UK and the World Following the success of Kent Weather Watch we are pleased to announce that the project will be continued to July 2009...
Free Entry! ------- WIN A PRIZE -------- Free Entry! Click here to download the flier Introduction | How to participate | How to submit photos | Curriculum links The Weather Watch 2008-9 Digital Photograph competition is open to all pupils aged between...
“ Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information.” View photos of a country, listen to the native language of that area, learn more about transportation, education, religion, people, etc...
In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical...
As you may know, Kent is running a Weather Watch project this year. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/weatherwatch/ We are now looking forward to our first ever Weather around the World Day on Wednesday 21st May 2008 Colette Cotton (Leading ICT Teacher –...
A workshop with contributions from Helen MacGregor ASK Music Advisor, Michele Gregson ASK Art Advisory Teacher and Kent Leading ICT Teachers Schools taking part in Weather Watch 2008 are invited to attend a Music and ICT workshop at Oaktree Primary School...