Create and Share Maps
Tinymap Website Tinymap lets you easily create and share maps. Add any of twelve different icons to the map. You get a URL address to paste once you name and save your map. What do you think of Tinymap? ...
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BBC Dimensions: exploring the human scale of events and places in history
Dimensions is an experimental project from the BBC that allows you to compare the scale of different types of events with something that we can all recognise. There are two parts of the project “How many really?” and “How big really?“ “How many really?” is all about the numbers of people that were involved in ...
Google Earth: 1 Billion Downloads and So Many Uses in the Classroom
Google Earth was one of the very first pieces of software that I began to create educational resources with. As I put it in one of my first ever blog posts 5 years ago: ”This app won me over straight away.” The engaging environment really struck a chord with me and I remember fondly my first forays ...
Create Informative Animated Maps
Animaps Website Animaps lets you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed u... ...
Create Celestial Charts
PP3 Website PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. You may use own databases or free ones from the Internet. What... ...
Create and Download Maps
National Geographic MapMaker Website MapMaker lets you download, print, and assemble maps of the continents and of the world in a variety of sizes. Get mega maps for your wall or floor activities. Or get tabletop maps for small group work. What do ... ...
Educational Geography Game
Seterra Website Seterra is a challenging educational geography game with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises! What... ...
#UKSnowDepth
The snow in the UK has really kicked in this week and many, many schools are closed – I thought we could take the opportunity to create some learning resources related to the conditions. I discovered this list of snow depths but then thought perhaps we could simply crowd-source some accurate data from colleagues across ...