World Health Organisation

You can search for various different types of map here, world or regional to map occurences of various deadly diseases.

clipped from gamapserver.who.int World : Deaths due to tuberculosis among HIV-negative people (per 100 000 population per year), 2007 Date : 31/Dec/2007 Source : World Health Organization Topic : Tuberculosis Keywords : Tuberculosis mortality View map

Geo CUBE

A fantastic resource coveringmany up to date contemporary geographical topics. Its flash based and you can download all inforamtion in PDF format.

clipped from www.geo-cube.eu

Geography of Disease

The Wellcome Trust funded project has enabled several schools to produce this cross curricular project suitable for Geography, Maths and Science.

clipped from www.geography.org.uk Geography of Disease – Aston Comprehensive School, South Yorkshire Lindsay Burgin, a geography teacher from Aston Comprehensive School, has developed a mini-scheme of work focusing on Measles and AIDS here and in Africa. The project, designed for Year 9 students, runs for ten lessons and encourages students to use and manipulate a range of resources. Aston’s Year 9 students investigated disease at a range scales, from its local impact on families to its national and global contexts. The project develops key geographical skills through map and graph interpretation. Working with statistics allowed students to understand the patterns of disease and identify possible strategies to help improve conditions in the areas most affected. At the end of the unit the students were then given an end of unit test. Download: Scheme of work (Word, 103k) Download: End of unit test (Word, 165k)

Amazing Auzzie Duststorm

Check out the story and images/video on BBC website about this amazing natural phenomena!

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Desert dust storm chokes Sydney A large stretch of Australia’s east coast, including the largest city Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback. Visibility in Sydney was so bad that flights were diverted and harbour ferry traffic disrupted. Landmarks such as the Opera House were obscured, and many residents took to wearing masks. Emergency services reported a surge in calls from people with breathing problems. The storm crippled the transportation system, with long delays to flights and bumper-to-bumper traffic on major roads. Dust storms are common in the arid “red centre” of Australia, but they rarely reach the populated coastal regions. Children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems were told to stay indoors until the dust had cleared later on Wednesday. It was blown out to sea and up the coast by the strong winds. How the dust storm spread

Great Population Lesson for Year 9/GCSE

Thanks very much for this Richard.

clipped from www.geographyalltheway.com The Global Population Task One – Predicting the Future How fast is the world’s population increasing? What are the components of the increase? Use the Countdown Timer at ClassTools.net to set a certain time (30 seconds should be about right) for everybody in the class to decide what the world’s population will be at the end of the lesson. Record all the predictions – the closest to the answer at the end of the lesson should get a prize. Activities Task Two – Population Milestones Copy and complete the table below, except the two cells with ‘???’ in. Download and print the ‘Global Population Graph Paper’. By hand, plot the data from the table below onto your graph paper and then use your graph to help you fill in the two boxes with ‘???’ in.

10:10 Sign Up

This is how the campaign got launched at the Tate Modern!

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP?

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk The 10:10 campaign kicks off at the Tate Modern Guardian Deputy Editor, Ian Katz, and the director of the Age of Stupid, Franny Armstrong, guide us through the launch of 10:10 campaign Watch Video

Flickr: Explore photos from the Geography Teachers Resources group on the map

This is a fantastic site. Flickr enables your students to either make their own accounts or they can log in under a pre made username and password and upload pictures of the local area … and then geo tag them.

geoknow.net – Geography and environmental news, information and research help on topics from around the world

A brilliant site full of geography related links!

Free Maps

Download and print to your hearts content … or just store electronically for the more environmentally friendly option!

clipped from www.eduplace.com World Africa Europe South America North America United States Historical Primary Asia and the Pacific These maps may be printed and copied for personal or classroom use.To request permission for other purposes please contact the Rights and Permissions Department.

Glaciation Resource

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Captured on camera: 50 years of climate change in the Himalayas Series of before and after panoramas of Imja glacier taken five decades apart highlights dramatic reduction of Himalayan ice A very deep layer of ice covered the Imja glacier in the 1950s (top photo). Over the next 50 years, small meltwater ponds continued to grow and merge, and by the mid 1970s had formed the Imja lake. By 2007, the lake had grown to around 1km long. Photograph: Erwin Schneider/Alton Byers/The Mountain Institute When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.