DfEE
National Curriculum - Geography Primary section
Geography
Geographical skills | Places | Thematic Studies
UK | Europe | Africa | Asia | North and South America | Australasia
Volcanoes | Geology | Satellite Images | Weather | Climate | Environmental Issues | Rivers | Mountainous Regions
DfEE
National Curriculum - Geography Primary section
DfEE
National Curriculum - Geography Secondary section
Finding
Your Way with Map and Compass
Information
Handling in the Primary School
NCET provide eight sample activities for Key Stages 1 and 2.
This site can create large-scale maps of all parts of the world.
Map sections: World, Europe, Asia, USA, Africa, South America, Canada and Australia.
Walking
to school
A database developed by the DFEE and the Department of Environment and Transport
to encourage children to car share or walk to school.
There are two sections: the Countries A to Z provides facts, figures and statistics on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economics for every world country. And the World Maps half of the site provides you with full-colour physical and political maps for every region in the world.
Finding
Your Way with Map and Compass
Maps, pictures, text and intelligent links to offer a comprehensive resource for geography teachers.
Click on a world map which zooms you to a more detailed map, from which you select countries of interest.
Eden's Virtual tours of locations around the world
On the Line is designed to bring together communities on the meridian line, to accentuate the commonalities between people who live vastly different lives at the very same time of day and night. On the Line aims to build partnerships, bringing people together. Schools on the line are a major focus, linking children using innovative technology, and helping to form life-long understanding through exchanges and cultural events.
A well organised Web encyclopaedia for the primary classroom.
Helping
Your Child Learn Geography
This is an American site aimed at 5- to 10-year-olds.
Fantastic site. Covering every aspects of the geography curriculum in detail.
The
Royal Geographical Society
This site gives full access to the Reed newspaper group's range of regional titles.
Information, maps and pictures about ten ecosystems including deserts, tropical rainforests and polar regions.
The
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
This National Geographic site explains the changes caused by the building of a dam.
Website about the aurora borealis (the Northern Lights).
British
Council - Central Bureau
Set up to promote the city of Sheffield
This website gives some basic background information on geographical features.
Official
Guide to Northern Ireland
This is the Met. Office's up-to-date weather forecast service.
Just enter your own postcode and up pops a wealth of information.
Designed to support 'Conflict and Concern' unit in KS3
Just enter in your postcode and you will see a map showing the area and other information can be displayed about location.
Everything you need to know about travel in the UK
Yorkshire Net Information on villages and walks in North Yorkshire
Does anyone actually know anything about Norway? Well, if you don't, this is the place to find out. There is plenty of information here on Norwegian education, physical geography, culture, history, etc. to make it useful for a locality study. There are also links to Norwegian schools that are online and would appreciate pen-pals.
Papers, reports, photos, maps and data about the land and peoples of the far north.
Includes photographs of Egypt from space and links off to other sites of interest.
Concise information about the city of Cairo.
African Folk tales.
Cameras set up next to watering holes in South African safari parks broadcast live pictures .
Life in South Africa.
Copious amounts of geographical information about Bangladesh.
An illustrated and very detailed study of a traditional Japanese dwelling
Children explore and make links between their own lives and the lives of people living and working in India.
Young children can learn about the geography, people and wildlife of a variety of countries
including Canada, Japan, and Australia .
India's national newspaper, 'The Hindu', would make an excellent online resource.
Lamont
Scientists Discover Indian Ocean El Nino
Site covers the El Nino current in the Indian Ocean.
This is an interactive information site about Japan.
This fun site presents a large amount of information about Japan from a child's perspective.
Live cameras at various positions around the city.
Live cameras at various positions around the city.
Live camera situated on the beach.
Photojourney
Through Costa Rican Rainforest
Young children can learn about the geography, people and wildlife of a variety of countries
including Canada, Japan, and Australia .
An alphabetical list links you instantly to the homepage of each one of the 50 U.S. states.
Details of today’s weather in St Lucia.
Compare
the weather in St. Lucia with Bradford's weather
An encyclopaedic warehouse of Australia’s cultural and natural history.
This is an extensive website promoting South Australian Mining.
Young children can learn about the geography, people and wildlife of a variety of countries
including Canada, Japan, and Australia .
A vast catalogue of over 200 images, links and information about the appearance of planet earth.
Site calculates sunset, sunrise and day length for any location in the world.
Historical
Estimates of World Population
EarthWatch - Weather
On Demand
Global weather and climatic information is abundant, including up-to-date satellite images, in all wavelengths, which are readily available for any global position.
US Geological Survey's Water Science for Schools
Everything you wanted to know about water, including the fact that rain droplets are not tear-shaped. Suitable for all ages.
Local social geography is complemented by sites like this one hosted by the Friends of the Earth.It allows you to monitor polluting industries and current hot spots in your area.
Dumptown is a bit like Sim City except the problem is rubbish. You are incharge and must take the right decisions to see the streets and parks cleared of environmental pollution. Ages eight to 14 will enjoy playing.
Volcanoes Online is a website designed to educate students about volcanoes; more specifically, what a volcano is, how they are formed and how eruptions effect us all. The site includes a searchable database of volcanoes. The database has lots of information including pictures, location, dimensions, volcano activity and other features. Links to other volcano sites.
Lots of interactive experiments with rocks, molten lava and plate tectonics. Suitable for eight years upwards.
Geography - Primary
Scientific treatment of the earthquake topic.
Plate
Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
(http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html)
(http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/seismic-waves.html)
ABAG
Earthquake Maps and Information
Covering Montserrat's ongoing Soufriere Hills volcano eruption, with colour photos.
Montserrat
Volcano Observatory - Pictures
One of several related sites on the eruption of Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano 1995-97.
Interprete the seismograms to discover the epicentre and Richter magnitude of a real earthquake.
Italy's
Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology
Site gives detailed historical information about previous eruptions of the many Italian volcanoes.
A variety of activities covering hurricanes, rainforests, volcanoes, water quality and climate change.
Vast amounts of information about volcanoes.
A relief map of Montserrat showing the volcano's threat of pyroclastic flows over the southern
part of the island.
Video
Clips of the Mount St Helens Volcano
USGS
Earthquake Hazards and Preparedness
Michigan
Technological University JPEG Image: Volcanic Cloud, Montserrat
Thermal satellite image of the Lesser Antilles showing the eruption cloud of the Soufriere Hills volcano.
Video Clips
of the Mount St Helens Volcano
Italy's
Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology
Up to date with breathtaking photographs.
The Essential Guide to Rocks
Useful for advanced students of geology.
This introduces the variety of world coastlines through satellite images.
Satellite
Microsoft Terraserver
A huge database of satellite images from around the world.
NERC
Satellite Station Dundee University
The very latest weather satellite images of Britain.
Latest
Infra-Red Satellite Picture
This part of the Met. Office's site shows the most recent black and white infra-red satellite image of Europe.
A simple text-based site that aims to cover all terminology related to weather.
This site provides up-to-date meteorological information for the USA and Canada.
Cloud
Cover: The Weather Satellite
This site is simply an up-to-the-hour satellite image of Northern Europe showing cloud cover.
A fun supplementary resource for primary geography.
Detailed summaries are available for 82 cities, updated twice daily, and 14 regions.
This is the Met. Office's up-to-date weather forecast service.
Index
of Public Weather Images
Satellite weather images of the United Kingdom from the Met Office.
Provides a daily update of UK weather information including temperature and conditions.
This site aims to use the science and language of patterns to explore the weather.
This site provides up-to-date meteorological information for the USA and Canada.
United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
A Beginner's Guide to Climate Change.
Cloud
Cover: The Weather Satellite
This site is simply an up-to-the-hour satellite image of Northern Europe showing cloud cover.
This page is hosted by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
National
Air Quality Information Archive
This site provides information about air pollution in the UK.
Information on many aspects of rainforest conservation and global deforestation.
Ozone
Layer Depletion and Global Warming
Instant access to the projected world energy consumption for the period 1993-2015.
This is a data resource page from the World Resources Institute. .
On-line
Renewable Energy Education Module
Renewable
Energy Education Module
Information about solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass energy sources.
Rainforest
Action Network - searching for oil
Dramatic and comprehensive account of the effects of oil exploration on our planet.
Recycle
City (Environmental Protection Agency
This US government site investigates ways of reducing, re-using and recycling resources.
A game with you in charge of waste management for a city - upper KS2/KS3
An interactive site which asks students to examine the evidence, identify sources of global warming and provide possible solutions for minimising them.
International
Climate Change Scorecard
A site which scores certain countries on their progress towards meeting Rio Earth Summit 1992.
Bright
Edges of the World, Drylands: A Children's View
A site which looks at 'drylands' or 'savannahs' and demonstrates their ecological importance.
The CAFOD (Catholic Aid Agency) site provides a rich source of issues relating to developing nations.
This site has weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of the best sites for maps and geographcal information, an online world atlas, a glossary, weekly quizzes and a free email newsletter. The sites includes over 1000 pages of original content.
An expanding site covering aspects of physical geaography, revision guides, diagrams, colour photographs and over 700 carefully selected links to other geaographical resources.
National
Grid - Groundwork Four Seasons Project
Interesting site containing suggestions for classroom projects.
International
Centre for Conservation Education
Creative ideas for getting involved with Oxfam.
Exploring
Planets in the Classroom: Hands-On Activities
This fun-filled website teaches pupils about the environment through online activities.
Education
Resources - Save the Children
An international project set up by the British Council in Australia.
This site gives full and comprehensive access to the Reed newspaper group's range of regional titles.
This fun-filled website from New Zealand teaches pupils about the environment through online
activities.
Exploring
Planets in the Classroom: Hands-On Activities
Matching animals and plants to their environment.
What's
It Like Where You Live?
Profiles of nations all over the world, including their anthems, maps, flags, news and weather.
National
Grid - Groundwork Four Seasons Project
St
Mary's C. of E. Primary School, Sheffield
Lively website contains much that would be of interest to pupils in other parts of the country.
Maps and pictures about ten ecosystems including deserts, tropical rainforests and polar regions.
The
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
This site can create large-scale maps of all parts of the world which can be downloaded.
A diagram illustrating which areas of the Earth are currently in daylight and which are in shadow.
Education
Resources - Save the Children
This site basically contains a list of packs, books, etc.
Facts on the world’s five longest rivers
A website which displays teaching materials created by Buttershaw Upper School, Bradford.
This site accompanies the expedition to complete the first circumnavigation of the world by inland waterways.
Provides links to sites about rivers, including school projects on rivers around the world.
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