| Geography education and G Guide - Resources and Review
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| Guide to the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. Considers the structure, characteristic growth forms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation, and major soil order(s). Also covers common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desert scrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes.
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List of UK university geography departments.
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Project aimint to improve the teaching of geographical techniques.
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Devoted to geography teaching in all institutions of higher education throughout the world, it provides a forum for geographers and others, regardless of their specialisms, to discuss common ducational interests, to present the results of educational research, and to advocate new ideas.
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Searchable database of over 650 geography departments in over 50 countries.
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List of UK university geography departments.
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Clickable map provides key data about the population, geographical area, capital city, climate, languages spoken, and currency of over 190 countries. Also offers information on recent news stories, economic situations, agriculture, the environment, ethnic divisions, and religions practised.
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List of university geography departments worldwide.
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Details of introductory short courses and distance learning courses at Kingston, including EduGIS, plus GIS software, various GIS publications and papers, an electronic noticeboard, and a test of GIS knowledge.
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Society formed from the merger in 1995 of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. Much of the Society's research activity is undertaken through its nineteen research groups.
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The aim of GeographyCal is to specify, develop, test and deliver a library of high
quality transportable resources in the form of computer-assisted learning (CAL) modules, to facilitate an effective teaching and learning environment for core topics, concepts and techniques in introductory geography courses.
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Society founded in 1888 for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. Now claims to be the largest non
profit scientific and educational institution in the world.
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Selection of resources created by and for teachers, covering aspects of physical geography such as earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers, and fieldwork. Includes lessons from the Telegraph newspaper and a collection of over 750 annotated links to related resources.
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Project to provide support for the GIS user community, including education and training materials associated with a variety of common GIS such as GRASS, ARC/Info and Idrisi.
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A set of links to educational geography resources worldwide, including historical and cultural geography, geography standards, and geographic organisations.
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Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of geography.
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One of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centres. Provides links to collections of resources, projects, programmes, software, online journals, and events.
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Highlights maps, tools, and software for researchers interested in GIS. Offers a collection of geographical data sources arranged by country, a search engine for exploring the Web specifically for geography related resources, downloadable packages, viewers, converters and compression utilities, and latest news in the form of headlines, classifieds, and events.
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Full transcripts, complete with images and diagrams, of lectures on geography and the Earth's ecosystem. Covers topics such as the atmosphere, conservation, and the emergence of life on Earth.
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