Educational Resources - World Savvy "[World Savvy] helped me locate resources, develop curriculum, and create interesting student projects. They really care about student learning". Educator, San Francisco Welcome to World Savvy’s Resource Community! In this section, you will find: The Monitor is a free online current affairs service for educators, providing background information –a ‘primer’ on complex global issues–and a Classroom Companion which demonstrates how to bring that knowledge into the classroom. Editions: Search our online database of teaching resources –curricula, lessons and units, multimedia resources and books, publications and movies –for classroom use; find recommended and featured resources and links to ‘best in class’ associations and nonprofits working in global education. Search the Resource Library The World Savvy Challenge is an academic program for middle and high school students to build their knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors for global competence. Program Resources: Resources for Students
Fieldwork Fieldwork is an essential component of geography education. It enables pupils to better understand the ‘messiness’ of ‘geographical reality’, develop subject knowledge, and gain a range of skills that are difficult to develop in the classroom alone. However, the value is not simply the ‘geographical’ value of experiencing such things as landscape features, busy urban streets and unfamiliar cultures which helps ground the pupils’ local environment in the context of the global. It also aids motivation and self-development. This resource aims to help teachers to introduce and develop fieldwork with students in both primary and second schools. In each section we have listed useful resources along with introductory text to help you find the most useful materials for your needs. ‘The environment is at the heart of everything we do and we believe being outside in different habitats offers exciting challenges that students may not otherwise get the opportunity to experience.
Encyclopedia of Earth Teaching_strategies Natural Hazards• ELI Natural Hazards category Plate tectonicsPlate tectonics - whole concept:-• Partial melting - simple process, huge global impact (ELI+)• Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)• Plate riding (ELI+)• Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)• Plate margins and movement by hand Evidence and explanation for the theory:-• Continental jigsaw puzzle (ELI+)• Earth time jigsaw puzzle• Geobattleships (ELI+)• Wegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)• Did the continents move for you? (ELI+) Mechanism:-• Bouncing, bending, breaking• Mantle plume in a beaker (ELI+)• What drives the plates? Constructive or divergent plate margins:-• Mantle plume in a beaker (ELI+)• Magnetic stripes (ELI+)• Model a spreading ocean offset by transform faults (ELI+)• Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean Resources• Fracking: Recipe for the perfect fracking fluid• Make your own oil and gas reservoir• Trapped! Volcanoes• Blow up your own volcano!
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Mrs Humanities shares… 10 Geography Teachers to follow on Twitter. | Mrs Humanities Okay so this is something new I’m trying a new monthly feature on things that stand out to me. This could be anything from teachers to follow on twitter, interesting pedagogical practices, recently shared resources, news stories etc. Suggestions welcomed. I’m starting with 10 Geography Teachers to follow on Twitter, these are people I regularly interact with, follow links posted or magpie ideas from. There are many more I could add but I really can’t spend all day writing a post. Geographer & Author of 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Geography Lessons. Can often be found causing a stir, shares a great deal of insightful articles, links and resources for the everyday teacher and/or geographer. Head of Geography Regularly shares great teaching practice for the geographer and general teacher alike. Head of Geography Set up the AQA teacher schoology collective; a huge amount of resources have been shared widely as a result. Head of Humanities, main subject Geography. Finally…
32 Maps That Will Teach You Something New About the World Our world is a complex network of people, places and things. Maps are a great tool and can help us understand how we are all connected. Below you will find a collection of informative maps that will hopefully teach you something new and give you a fresh perspective of our amazing planet and those that inhabit it. 1. The map above shows the countries that are due east and west from points along the coasts of North and South America. 2. The oceanic pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W) is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 3. 4. 6. 7. 9. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. The longest distance you can travel between two points in straight line without crossing any ocean or any major water bodies goes from Liberia to China. 18. 19. This map points out the highly uneven spatial distribution of (geotagged) Wikipedia articles in 44 language versions of the encyclopaedia. 20. 21. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 32.
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Resources Featured Results: SuperSchemes: Barnaby Bear Investigates the UK This unit aims to help pupils to learn and understand more about the United Kingdom and develop a variety of geographical skills through fieldwork, mapping and recording the weather. Pupils will learn about the location of the UK in the world, the UK’s countries and capital cities, seasons, weather and key human and physical features of urban, rural and coastal locations. Results: A different view - Geography: Moving stories 'A young woman stands amidst the crowds on the concourse at Grand Central Station: a thousand different lives interconnect around her' Six of the stunning geographical photographs from A different view, the GA's manifesto for school geography, are now available as A1 posters. A different view - Geography: Running free 2012: Just a summer to remember?
BBC Teach - Geography: The Big Issues Jack, a student from Gateshead on Tyneside, investigates solutions to traffic related air pollution, which is a particular problem in Newcastle. Jack wants to know if a congestion charge would solve the problem of air pollution and talks to people on both sides of the argument. He speaks to a local resident, an environmental researcher from the University of Newcastle who measures traffic pollution levels, a local GP, a local businessman and the Newcastle City Council’s Director of Public Health. After listening to the arguments, Jack makes up his mind on the best option. Teacher Notes This could be used to set up a fieldwork investigation using GIS to collect and interpret data. Noun Project Search Results for “bread” Food 92 icons Bread 24 icons Brush style #2 79 icons View all 137 collections