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- A Teacher Toolkit for Integrating Geospatial Concepts into Science Learning
- What is GeoSciTeach?
- Going geospatial in science – a framework for teachers
- Geospatial in science
- Learnability (of using app)
- Comparing bananas and coffee
- Thinking geographically and spatially
- Other contexts of use
- Thoughts about linking the use of ‘GeoSciTeach’ with the classroom
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A Teacher Toolkit for Integrating Geospatial Concepts into Science Learning
Science learning goes geospatial with GeoSciTeach! GeoSciTeach is a teacher toolkit for integrating geospatial concepts into science learning. It is designed to be used by PCGE science tutors, pre-service science teachers, qualified science teachers and other science educators, and provides a comprehensive guide and … Continue reading
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Tagged DigitalInfrastructure, FinalProductPost, inf11, Innovation, jisc, JISCdi, jiscgeo, product, ProductDescription, TableOfContents, ToC
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Who is GeoSciTeach for?
Developed for use in secondary school (ages 11-18 years), GeoSciTeach is specifically designed to be used by both teachers and students in science classes. Being fully customisable means teachers are able to modify and adapt the application to meet the … Continue reading
In creating a customisable smart phone application for GIS supported teaching and learning there has been a selection of operating systems of which could be used. The main smart phone operating systems as of the duration of the project according … Continue reading
Understanding patterns using data linked to geospatial representations
The transcription below is interesting as it shows that patterns of understanding are broadened and simplified using data linked to geospatial representations. Interview 3: School Pupil. Girl aged 12/13. Interviewer: So what did you think then of using the app? … Continue reading
Customise an activity: Here’s a walkthrough
Using GeoSciTeacher:
GeoSciTeach activity walkthrough
Watch a short “how to use” example on Youtube here:
Posted in GeoSciTeach app, How to use GeoSciTeach, Project progress & update
Tagged application, geosciteach, jisc, jiscgeo, Smartphones
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Reading around OpenLayers, and INSETs
Been reading other JISCgeo sites to see what to do with the potential problem of providing multiple layers for mobile platforms. The general agreement seems to be that whilst OpenLayer is good for high level GIS understanding, it is hard … Continue reading
Using GeoSciTeach with teachers in schools
I had a meeting this morning with a teacher from a school in London that was involved in the Kew trip. She said that the year 9’s at the school would be good to use with the phone application in … Continue reading
Planning day at Kew
Today was a planning day at Kew for the trainee teachers. The Geosciteach app was integrated into planning.
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