Monday, December 4, 2006

The Spring Valley High School Visual learning aids

Many, may, many animations and images on offer here, from Plate tectonics to meterology:
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Essentials of Geology animations

CLICK HERE

List of animations from the University of Oregan

Topics listed:

ATMOSPHERE, WEATHER, AND CLIMATE
EARTH PROCESSES, GEOMORPHOLOGY, LANDFORMS

BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, BIOGEOGRAPHY


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List of links fromt the GA

http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/egeography/chapter7/

How to insert SWF files into Powerpoint

http://www.mix-fx.com/tutorials/importpowerpoint.html

Soil

From Wycombe High School site - some very useful soil animations:

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The meatrix


If you're teaching about the dangers of factory farming, this animation should amuse your students, especially those fans of "The Matrix"

http://www.themeatrix.com/


If you're teaching about organic farming view this five minute mini-movie which tells the tale of a small band of organic vegetable puppets -- Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo and Chewbroccoli
http://www.storewars.org/flash/

Some great Y8 animations from Pencoed School in Wales

http://pencoedgeography.co.uk/pupilanimations8.htm

My favourite animation of all

Nice BBC climate change animations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/greenhouse.stm

This link is to the Greenhouse Effect animation. Try the others also.

Some earth system and atmosphre "visualisations"

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Thanks to Rob Chambers for these!

http://www.nuls.org.uk/?pageid=62.

http://www.cleo.net.uk/resources/index.php?ks=4&cur=10

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/


Saturday, December 2, 2006