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Geography Christmas Quiz

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 slides to the end of each round if you have shorter...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 11-29-2009
Quakeshakes

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 seismic activity during the past 24 hours or week...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-01-2009
The New 7 Wonders in panorama

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.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/ Mandy:)

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-06-2009
Weather around the World 24 hour blog

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 digital resources enable pupils to quickly and...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-03-2009
Geography UK Photographs

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 Commons license, and you can browse or search through...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-28-2009
Webcam Wall

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 whiteboard! Each picture is live. You can actually...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-28-2009
Kent Eco-Schools Project

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 schools. In this there are specific suggestions...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-20-2009
Website of the Week: River Severn

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 down the River Thames . Follow this link to read...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-18-2009
Interested in a collaborative writing competition for your classes?

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 rich content about an educational topic that interests...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-14-2009
Website of the Week - BBC Class Clips

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 much more. Science & Nature Search BBC Science...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-02-2009

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