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Here you will find all the weblinks included in the Secondary 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.

  • Section One: Geography matters
  • Section Two: Teaching and learning geography
  • Section Three: Geography for all
  • Section Four: Assessment
  • Section Five: Developing as a geography teacher


  • Secondary Geography Handbook

    Section One: Geography matters

    Chapter 1: What’s the point of learning geography?
    David Balderstone


    Pilot GCSE
    Power of Geography
    Where Will I live?


    Chapter 7: Mapping for the future
    Roger Jeans


    Advisory Unit Computers in Education
    Allied Integrated Technologies Ltd
    Anquet Technology Ltd
    Digital Worlds International Ltd
    ESRI (UK)
    Intergraph
    MapZone
    Ordnance Survey
    Pebbleshore
    Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
    Soft Teach Educational
    TrackLogs
    WebBased Ltd
    Wildgoose, Bluesky International Ltd


    Chapter 8: Changing the subject: What’s it got to do with me?
    Eleanor Rawling


    ‘Final Report of the Working Group on 14-19 Reform’
    Geography GCSE Pilot - QCA and Geography GCSE Pilot GA
    QCA ‘Futures: Meeting the Challenge‘


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    Section Two: Teaching and learning geography

    Chapter 10: Using ICT to create better maps
    Fred Martin


    ER Mapper
    Geocaching
    GIS for Teachers
    Global Positioning System
    Great Globe Gallery
    Multimap
    MapPoint
    National Curriculum in Action
    NASA
    Earth Observation Centre
    NOAA
    NVIDIA
    Ordnance Survey
    Royal Geographical Society
    United States Geological Survey

    GIS software packages

    Aegis 3 (AUCE)
    ArcView (ESRI UK Ltd)
    Digital Worlds International Ltd
    IDRISI Kilimanjaro (Clark Labs)
    InfoMapper
    Local Studies
    MapInfo (TMS Education Initiatives) - and MapInfo

    Maps, vertical air photos and CD-Roms

    Geopacks: Mastering Mapwork CD-Rom - email: service@geopacks.com
    Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas
    Window on the World, Window on the UK 2000 and Window on the Universe


    Chapter 12: Cracking the code: numeracy and geography
    Clare Brooks


    DfES Mathematics Framework
    DfES National Numeracy Strategy
    OS Get-a-Map
    MultiMap
    US Census Bureau's International Database


    Chapter 14: Understanding ‘distant places’
    Emma Wellsted


    Survival International ‘We, the World’


    Chapter 15: Strategies for approaching values education
    Michael McPartland


    Abrams and Astill ‘The story of the blues’

    The following websites are useful for amplifying the ‘Blue jeans story’:

  • New Internationalist
  • International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Get Set Incorporated
  • International Press Services News Agency
  • Pesticides Action Network News Agency
  • Pesticide Action Network UK
  • Anahita Tourism and Travel


    Chapter 16: Thinking skills and the role of debriefing
    Adam Nichols


    DfES Standards site
    Ofsted ‘Secondary Subject Report 2000/01: Geography’


    Chapter 17: Using ICT to enhance learning in geography
    Sheila King and Liz Taylor


    Becta ‘ImpaCT2 – emerging findings from the evaluation of the impact of information and communications technologies on student attainment’
    Dwyer, Ringstaff and Sandholtz ‘Teacher Beliefs and Practice’
    European YoungNet Project
    Ofsted ‘ICT in Schools: the effect of government initiatives. A progress report’
    Ofsted ‘ICT in Schools: the effect of government initiatives’


    Chapter 18: Planning geographical fieldwork
    David Holmes and Mark Walker


    QAA ‘Benchmark Statement for Geography’
    Virtual Montana and Virtual Montana Tour
    UK neighbourhood statistics


    Chapter 19: Media literacy and geographical imaginations
    Chris Durbin


    Anti-Ecohype
    British Geological Survey - Earthquakes
    Envirospin
    Fraser ‘Bad meteorology’
    Google
    Institute of Economic Affairs
    National Statistics
    Staffordshire Learning Net geography pages
    UN Cyber School Bus


    Chapter 20: Geography’s contribution to vocational courses
    Alan Marvell and Bob Holland with Keith Shuff


    Chessington World of Adventures
    Curtis ‘Vocational GCSEs too academic’
    English Heritage
    Fodor’s Guides
    Goulbourne
    Joint Council for Qualifications ‘National Provisional GCSE (Full Course) Results - June 2004’
    Michelin Guides
    National Trust
    Pilot GCSE
    Rough Guides
    Star UK
    Tourism Education Consultancy or email: bob@bobholland.org
    Travel and Tourism Programme or email: ttp@springboarduk.org.uk
    World Tourism Organization
    World Travel and Tourism Council
    World Travel Guide


    Chapter 22: Let’s get physical
    Tom Inman


    Staffordshire Learning Net geography pages


    Chapter 23: Teaching geography for a sustainable future
    Alun Morgan


    2000AD
    Best Practices
    DLTR
    Education Business Partnerships
    Geology of Biology
    Global Eye
    Johnny Appleseed
    Living Streets
    Long Now Foundation
    LSX
    Multi-media Super Corridor
    Royal Town Planning Institute
    The Man Who Planted Trees
    UNESCO
    URS Europe
    Voices from the Field
    Worcestershire County Council


    Chapter 25: Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration
    Denise Freeman and Caroline Hare


    Global Eye
    GeoVisions
    Hope HIV
    Johnson and Johnson ‘An overview of cooperative learning’
    ‘Ted's Cooperative Learning e-book’
    This is Worcestershire


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  • Section Three: Geography for all

    Chapter 26: Inclusive geography
    Lynda Evans and Deborah Smith


    BBC News
    Dyspraxia Foundation

    Images of Monserrat were sourced from:

  • UN Volunteers
  • USGS Volcano Hazards Program
  • US Geological Survey

    Inspiration
    National Curriculum ‘Inclusion: Providing effective learning opportunities for all students’
    Ofsted ‘Evaluating Educational Inclusion: Handbook for inspecting secondary schools’
    Staffordshire Learning Net: geography pages
    SLN geography animations
    University of the First Age


    Chapter 27: Geography and students with EAL
    David Balderstone, Marielle Dow and Vicky Henn


    Enchanted Learning
    Linguanet
    NGFL Inclusion pages
    Refugee Council
    Staffordshire Learning Net geography pages
    Your Dictionary


    Chapter 31: Inspiring disaffected students
    Jeff Battersby with Neil Hornby


    Christian Aid
    Eco Schools


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  • Section Four: Assessment

    Chapter 32: Assessment for learning in geography
    Paul Weeden and John Hopkin


    Assessment Reform Group
    Association for Achievement and Improvement though Assessment
    General Teaching Council for England
    DfES Key Stage 3 Strategy
    DfES - Schemes of Work for KS3
    King ‘The diagnostic value of self-assessment in geography at key stage 4’
    National Curriculum
    QCA
    Weeden and Winter ‘The LEARN Project: Report for QCA’


    Chapter 33: Target setting and target getting in geography
    Linda Thompson


    Standards


    Chapter 35: Developing key skills through geography
    Emma Gobourn


    AQA
    DfES
    Edexcel
    OCR
    QCA
    WJEC


    Chapter 36: Preparing for public examinations
    Sue Warn


    GeoFile online
    Staffordshire Learning Net geography pages


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    Section Five: Developing as a geography teacher

    Chapter 38: Bridging the gap: building on young peoples’ experience of geography in the primary school
    Phil Wood


    Department for Education and Skills


    Chapter 39: Supporting non-specialist teachers of geography
    Bob Jones, Janet Lewis, Diane Swift and Dennis Vickers


    British Council
    General Teaching Council
    Teacher Training Agency - Can Teach
    TeacherNet
    Valuing Places


    Chapter 41: Research in geographical education
    Rachel Lofthouse and David Leat


    National College for School Leadership Networked Learning Communities
    Open University Teaching and Learning Resources
    Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching at the Institute of Education, University of London
    Teacher Learning Academy


    Chapter 42: Sustaining school geography
    David Balderstone and David Lambert


    DfES


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