Links

Professional bodies and organisations

• American Geological Institute
• British Geological Survey (BGS)
• British Geophysical Association
• Earth Science Education Forum for England and Wales (ESEF)
• Geographical Association
• International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO)
• International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (US-based)
• Rockwatch
• Royal Geographical Society
• Scottish Earth Science Education Forum (SESEF)
• The Geological Society
• The Geologists' Association
• The Natural History Museum
• The Association of UK RIGS Groups (UKRIGS)
• Yorkshire Geological Society (YGS)
• Geological Curators' Group
• The National Association for Environmental Education

Teaching and learning projects and resources

• BBC Education - includes lively classroom demonstrations and practical Earth science activities.
• Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU) - offers practical training in earth science teaching throughout the country.
• Earthworks - a world leading portal of job and career opportunities for Earth scientists and related professions.
• GeoResources - the UK's No.1 geography portal, providing free resources and good quality links to geography sites.
• GEsource - an information resource for geography and the environment, aimed at staff, students and researchers in the HE and FE communities.
• Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) - the major UK and international hub for exchanging knowledge on learning and teaching across the three disciplines.
• JESEI - the Joint Earth Science Education Initiative was developed specifically to help chemistry, biology and physics specialists with their teaching of Earth science.
• Nature for Schools - produced by English Nature, this site contains more than 100 lesson plans meeting the requirements of the National Curriculum.
  As exemplars, the materials can be adapted for use elsewhere.
• Earth Science On-Site - the UKRIGS Education Project, has field teaching activities for the non-specialist based on 12 former aggregates sites across England.
• PSIgate - an information gateway to high quality web resources in the physical sciences. Earth sciences are particularly well represented with over 3,000 entries, topics are easy to locate and the coverage is global.
• Schoolscience - provides free resources (some of them online) for teaching about the applications of school science.
• Science upd8 - this new concept provides the latest breakthroughs and science behind the news and publishes them lightning fast!
• SETNET - the Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Network,  prepares young people for the technological world we live in and helps to ensure that there is a flow of well-motivated, high quality people pursuing careers in these subjects.
• The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site - an excellent teaching resource that fully reflects the scientific and aesthetic importance of the Dorset and East Devon coast.
• Virtual Quarry - includes a host of resources designed to help you incorporate quarrying themes into Key Stages 1-4 of the National Curriculum for Science, Geography and Citizenship.

• Soil-Net.com is a free environmental educational resource about soils for Primary and Secondary schools age. 
  Primary - Designed for Key Stages 1 and 2 (ages 5-11), Soil-Net offers a series of exciting, interactive and animated movies that teach about soil and its importance. Follow Badger and class in soil school as they learn about what soil is, why soil matters, how soil forms and differs and how soil supports the plants and animals on earth. Activity and topic sheets accompany the on-screen fun.
  Secondary - Designed for Key Stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16), Soil-Net offers a broad coverage of soils information; introducing soils, examining the global cycles, presenting the functions soils perform, looking at the diversity of world soils and considering the threats and concerns facing our soil resources. A series of case studies and informative activities and downloads are also provided.

• Soilscapes Viewer is a free interactive web-based map of the soil types in England and Wales. Soilscapes Viewer offers a fantastic way to learn more about the soils in your region, and across the two countries. Input your UK Postcode and discover more about the soil resource under your feet. http://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes
  The Land Information System, or LandIS, is an environmental information system holding comprehensive soils information for England and Wales. LandIS is run by Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute, (http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soil) and is used by a broad range of users interested in soil conditions, properties and mapping. Datasets, maps and publications are available from LandIS to support your research and educational projects.

• The World Soil Surveys Archive and Catalogue (WOSSAC) seeks to provide a secure home for soil survey reports, maps and photographs produced by British companies and surveyors overseas in the last 80 years in 250 territories, with a view to ensuring their enduring availability and protection and making them as widely accessible as possible. WOSSAC is a project of the Cranfield University’s National Soil Resources Institute (http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soil) in the UK.
  WOSSAC is also the home for the recently announced ‘SoilPIC’ archive. Sponsored by BSSS, SoilPIC is intended to offer scholars and researchers access to high quality photographs of soil and soil conditions from all around the world. Photos of soil pit horizons and their associated landscapes will form an invaluable resource for those wishing to learn more of the astonishing variety of world soils.

• Ecton Hill Field Studies Association have re-opened the Ecton Hill mine site as a scheduled monument and an educational resource. The website is at: http://www.ectonhillfsa.org.uk.

• The Synergetic Press, a small publishing based in Santa Fe, New Mexico announces publication of the first translation of Geochemistry and the Biosphere by the renowned Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. They would also be happy to offer a special price on this publication for your members if purchased through the Synergetic Press website. The book is highly recommended for “upper-division undergraduates through professionals,” by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

• The future of the Greenland ice sheet.