There are some amazing websites for Geography. These are a few of my favourites:
| www.advisory-unit.org.uk | The home of Aegis 3.
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| www.juicygeography.co.uk/aegis3 | Juicy Geography guide to Aegis 3. Downloadable resources available.
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| http://www.vdstech.com/ | Great source of country shapefiles to import into Aegis. Lots of data attached.
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| A new virtual city resource from Greenpeace, which explores the possibilities of renewable energy through real world examples and animations. The second link is a teacher download page. | |
| http://home.stoik.com/upload/ | Online puzzle generator. Try making jigsaw puzzles of any picture for a good starter.
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| http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk | The Ordnance Survey Mapzone website. Great games to help students learn map skills.
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| www.simsweatshop.com/ | Thanks to Linda Beskeen for this great sweatshop simulation game.
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| www.cloudappreciationsociety.org.uk | For everything that you ever need to know about clouds.
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| www.geobaseline.co.uk | Online assessments for geography teachers.
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| www.geographyalltheway.com | I love this website. There's some really innovative and visual stuff on here. Well worth a look. |
| www.geographypages.co.uk | Possibly the most complete list of geography resources I've ever come across. Fantastic website. |
| www.geointeractive.co.uk | A fantastic resource base for geography teachers. |
| www.juicygeography.co.uk | A great place to find some innovative resources. |
| www.sln.org.uk/geography/ | The Staffordshire Learning Network Geography website. This is an invaluable resource. |
| www.corbis.com | A huge bank of free images.
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| http://www.webbaviation.co.uk | Free aerial photography of the UK. |
| http://www.googleearthireland.com/ | A website that uses google earth to create great geography resources.
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| http://www.instantatlas.com | Map and GIS data. |
| www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk | The Ordnance Survey website.
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| http://maps.live.com | Windows Live Local. |
| www.mapmyrun.co.uk | Plot the mileage of any route in the UK. |
| http://webgis.nottinghamcity.gov.uk | GIS maps of Nottingham. |
| www.worldtime.com/ | Interactive World Atlas. |
| http://www.audiolicense.net | Audio tracks sorted by genre/mood. Really good for making movies. |
| www.bbc.co.uk/videonation | BBC Video Nation website. Download and watch people's opinions about pretty much anything. Great website! All clips downloadable with Real Player.
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| www.channel4.com/fourdocs/ | Channel 4 website showing short (4 mins) documentaries on all sorts of themes made by all sorts of people.
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| www.channel4.com/rawcuts | Channel 4 Raw Cuts is a series of short films about identity made by young people. Good for a module on personal geographies.
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| www.geographyatthemovies.co.uk | This website has loads of downloadable movies - you can even upload your own! |
| http://javimoya.com | This website allows you to put in the web address of any video that you want and it'll download it for you. It will also let you convert video files to other formats.
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| www.pocketmovies.net | MPEG-1 and DivX short films. Very adaptable format, which can be used for all sorts of projects.
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| http://vidgrabbr.com/ | This website allows you to put in the web address of any video that you want and it'll download it for you.
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| www.youtube.com | Download videos on pretty much anything. It's worth doing a search on Geography - the geography raps are great. Download any video using Real Player (see the video pages of this website for more details)
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