GIS Teaching Resources

Ordnance Survey, the Geographical Association (GA), the Royal Geographical Society with IBG and schools' GI software partners are providing a variety of resources to help you deliver GI to your students.  Information will be hosted on this page and on the GA website.

This page provides a source of Ordnance Survey information which has been presented at PGCE workshops at schools of education.  This is a developing resource to direct those interested in geographical information systems (GIS), to other websites which will assist with demonstration or downloadable software and further GI teaching resources. 

Ordnance Survey resources/downloads

The following are part of a package of resources from PGCE workshops run by Ordnance Survey staff at schools of education.

Digital map data and GIS for education – Ordnance Survey PowerPoint^® slide-show presentation

View or download powerpoint presentation (PPS 6.0 MB)

Digital map data and GIS for education – teachers’ notes and slides for use in conjunction with the PowerPoint above –

View or download teachers notes (PDF 8.6 MB)

Web workshop – information on GIS within the Ordnance Survey and partner websites 

View or download web workshop (PPS 102 KB)

Presentations from the Ordnance Survey Map Pilot assessment day.  These are examples of how teachers have created resources using GIS.

Year twelve fieldwork (PPS 5.6mb)

Top ten places in wakefield (PPS 3mb)

Little red riding hood (WMV 80mb)

Investigating microclimate (PPS 9.5mb)

Other websites that provide resources for GIS

Geographical Association website - the GA has brought together a range of informative information on GIS which includes teacher prepared resources on the subject. See the following links at  

www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/gis/ 

www.geography.org.uk/projects/spatiallyspeaking/

Royal Geographical Society with IBG - the RGS provides a range of resources for schools to be found at www.rgs.org/gis. These include sections on getting started, software evaluations and GIS resources.