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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.
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JESEI - the
Joint Earth Science
Education Initiative was developed specifically to help chemistry, biology and physics specialists with their teaching of Earth science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The future of the
Greenland ice sheet.