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Primary Geography Handbook Weblinks

Here you will find all the weblinks included in the Primary Geography Handbook. They are organised into subsections as they appear in the book. We'll keep this list as up to date as possible so if you find any broken links, please email us.

Primary Geography Handbook

Section 1: Geography and learning

Chapter 2 - Geography, creativity and place

Standish, A (2002) ‘Constructing a value map’


Chapter 4 - Making geography fun

Puzzlemaker
BBC Weather
Mapzone
Volcano World
Sea and Sky
Global Gang


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Section 2: Geographical skills

Chapter 10 - Fieldwork

Adventure Activity Licensing Authority
Norfolk ACPC


Chapter 12 - Geography and ICT

Everest

Scholastic Publications
Unlocking the Archives (RGS)

Himalayas

The Himalayas
Jeroen Neele Photo Gallery
Nepal and the Himalayas on the Web

Mountain Regions

Rocky Mountains Canada
Mountain Nature
Snowdonia National Park
Peru (Paddington Bear)
Tiki the Penguin visits Peru
The Austrian and Swiss Alps
Peakware World Mountain Encyclopaedia
Iceland
Virtual Montana
Global Eye Focus on Mountains

Distant Places

Action Aid
Global Eye (Worldaware)
Global Gang
InfoNation
One World
Oxfam for Kids
Save the Children
UNICEF
Vision Aid
Water Aid
World Info Zone
World Vision

Guidance and advice

Geographical Association
Becta
ICT advice
Innovating Geography
Micros and Primary Education (MAPE)
National Curriculum
Ofsted
Primary Geography Pages
QCA
QCA Scheme of Work

Images

Aerial survey UK
BBC: The Day/Week in Pictures
Free Foto (great for UK)
Geo Images
Geography Photos (Ian Murray)
Images of England (English Heritage)
Images of the World
Jeroen Neele Visiting the World
Physical landscapes
Picture Search
Webshots
Window on the World

LEA sites

CLEO (Cumbria, Lancashire)
Devon
Kent
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Wakefield
Hertfordshire
Kent NGfL
London Grid for Learning
North West Learning Grid
Shropshire IT4L
South West Grid for Learning

Maps

Get a map (OS)
Multimap (for maps and aerial photos)
Old maps
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey MapZone
Outline maps
Streetmap
World atlas

Weather and climate

BBC weather site
CNN weather site
Met Link
Met Office
Staffordshire school weather data
Weather at Keele
World climate
Yahoo

School Websites

Ambleside Primary School (Award-winning site, especially good for ks1 geography)
Snaith Primary School (especially for sections on Seaside, Water, Paris, India)
Perton First School (especially for the travels of Barnaby Bear)


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Section 3: People and places

Chapter 14 - Contrasting Localities

Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges
SoftTeach


Chapter 16 - Geography and the global dimension

Council for Racial Equality
Cree proverb
Day Chocolate Company
Global Express
Global Eye
Oxfam Coolplanet
New Internationalist
Ethical Consumer Magazine
Eco-schools


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Section 4: Themes and topics

Chapter 17: Weather and climate

BBC Weather
CNN Weather
GLOBE
Online Weather
OZ-Teachernet
Yahoo Weather

Advisory Unit Computers in Education
Griffin and George
Invicta Plastics
Meteorological Office
Royal Meteorological Society
SoftTeach
TTS Ltd
UK Webcameras


Chapter 18: Rivers, coasts and the landscape

Environment Agency
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Meteorological Office
Mountain Rescue Council
Wildgoose


Chapter 19: Settlement

Environment Agency
Ordnance Survey


Chapter 20: Environmental geography

Community Education Development Centre
Eco-Schools


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Section 5: Managing the curriculum

Chapter 22: Planning the geography curriculum

DfES


Chapter 24: Geography, inclusion and special needs

National Curriculum Online
Quality Circle Time
SEN Teacher Resources
SEN Toolkit
Teachernet


Chapter 26: The inspection process

Ofsted


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Resources

Distant Places

Coolplanet
Global Eye
Global Gang

Environment

Wastewatch
WWF

Local Area

2001 Census

Mountains and Volcanoes

Volcano World

Rocks and Minerals

British Geological Survey
Natural History Museum

Rivers

Staffordshire Learning Net

Teaching Ideas

Teaching Ideas
The Geographical Association
Puzzle Maker
Staffordshire Learning Net

UK Maps

Get Mapping
Mapzone
Multimap

Weather

BBC Weather
Meteorological Office


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