Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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Welcome to the Geography Teacher Educator (GTE) GIS resource's page. This page has been created to provide a focal point for obtaining information which can be used by GTEs.
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 6.2 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 2.3 MB)
Web workshop – information on GIS within the Ordnance Survey and partner websites
View or download web workshop (PPS 102 KB)
Worksheet for AEGIS 3 Viewer for Version 1.3 – Introduction to two templates for using this schools’ GIS package
View or download AEGIS worksheet (PDF 137 Kb)
Worksheet for Local Studies – introduction to using the Local Studies GIS package
View or download Local Studies worksheet (PDF 79 Kb)
Useful web links on the Ordnance Survey website and the MapZone® site
The Ordnance Survey and the MapZone websites have many useful and free resources; see the web workshop above for many examples.
Ordnance Survey education home page is at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/education
Read the latest Mapping news, previous editions and the booklet entitled GIS for schools. There are many useful ideas for geography lessons here, including those using GIS in the classroom.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/education/mappingnews/index.html
How to get Ordnance Survey digital map data can be found at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mappingnews/previous editions/30/p38.pdf
List of schools GIS software: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/education/digitaldata/software.html
MapZone is the free non-registration Ordnance Survey website for pupils. All map reading skills are covered here in some detail, with plenty of downloadable resources. It can be found at http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Learn about GIS at GIS Zone, which can be found on the MapZone website. It includes downloadable resources, lesson plans and missions to use as a classroom activity: http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/giszone/gateway.cfm
There are six missions, which are fully supported with downloadable files and which include the missions, lesson plans and homework extensions. They can be found at http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/giszone/english/teacherzone
Other websites that provide resources for GTE
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/and
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 evauluations and GIS resources.
Advisory-Unit website– go to the link at www.advisory-unit.org.uk/aegis3/Welcome_to_AEGIS_3.html for a free download of AEGIS 3 Viewer software and other items.
Anquet website– a demonstration of the software can be found at www.anquet.co.uk/demo.asp. This can be downloaded or supplied by CD.
Digital Worlds website– on the home page you can order a free demonstration disk at www.digitalworlds.co.uk.
ESRI (UK) website– More information on the availability of ESRI ARCVIEW software can be found at www.esriuk.com/schools. See also the Eduserv Chest site at www.eduserv.org.uk/chest, where for an annual fee a university can have access to GIS for its whole site. Check to see if your university subscribes by contacting tim.hobday@eduserv.org.uk.
Memory-Map website– a downloadable free trial of the software is available at www.memory-map.co.uk/downloads.htm
Pebbleshore website– go to the main home page at www.pebbleshore.co.uk and click the link to the web page where you can download a variety of items.
Soft Teach website– on-approval requests to try Soft Teach Local Studies. Note the worksheet above can be used in conjunction with this software package. Information can be found at www.soft-teach.co.uk/approval.htm.
Tracklogs website– to download an evaluation copy of the software go to www.tracklogs.co.uk/cgi-bin/publ/user.cgi?obj=home&page=softup&id=2000.
WebBased website– find out more about the InfoMapper web based product at www.webbased.co.uk/infomapper/index.php?topmenu=1.