Derbyshire Local Studies
This week, uLearn is releasing its long-awaited Derbyshire Local Studies resources.
The uLearn team, its colleagues and friends, as well as teachers and advisers, have all collaborated to create a fantastic set of resources for any school undertaking a local study in Derbyshire.
Local study is a key theme that cuts across the curriculum and relates to all key stages. Teachers no longer need to spend time looking for suitable resources for local study – uLearn makes the best online resources available at the click of a button!
The set includes a huge amount of teaching and learning resources on the following topics:
You can read all about what’s included in the Derbyshire Local Studies set here.
Curriculum-Related Favourite Sets in uLearn
The uLearn team has been working hard over the last few weeks to bring you useful, curriculum-related Favourite Sets for use in your lessons.
We chose some of the most frequently studied topics from across the curriculum, and can now offer instant lesson resources for the following topics:
1. Coasts: physical processes, transportation of sediment and formation of coastal landforms
2. Rivers: variation in characteristics over a chosen distance
3. Coasts: how effective and sustainable are different forms of coastal management?
4. Population Change: Investigate the impact of migration on a locality.
5. Tourism: sustainable tourism and impact of tourism on a region
6. Trade: investigate a retail area and suggest changes that could make it more sustainable / what is its impact on people and the environment?
Favourite Sets in uLearn
You can learn more about Favourite Sets and see them in action in our new Favourite Sets video.
Click here to find out more about uLearn, or to register, click here.
NEW! Favourite Sets now in uLearn
uLearn is proud to introduce Favourite Sets, the best way of creating collections of resources for use in lessons!
Are you studying rivers? Coasts? Citizenship? LEDCs? uLearn has thousands of resources on subjects across the curriculum, and now provides an easy way for you to group your favourites together to show the class.
Create collections for use in lessons!
Add a lesson plan to your Favourite Set and you have a whole lesson ready at the click of a button!
Detailed help and ideas on using Favourite Sets in lessons is available here.
The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano – Resources and Ideas
Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano has been in the news a great deal recently, causing chaos in Europe and farther afield.
To help out teachers and pupils interested in learning more about the volcano, here are some useful resources for studying Eyjafjallajökull, all linked from within uLearn. To find them, simply log in and search for Eyjafjallajökull.
At the bottom is a suggestion for a presentation for your pupils to prepare after studying some of the resources.
Eyjafjallajokull ash plume, (c) NASA.
Eyjafjallajokull Resources
| Eyjafjallajökull Volcano – Live Webcam | The Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Timeline |
| Ash Plume from Eyjafjallajökull | The Eyjafjallajökull Art Project |
| The Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Timeline | 2010 Eruption Of Eyafjallajökull |
| Eyjafjallajökull Slideshow | Eyafjallajökull – Earth Observatory |
| Video of Eyjafjallajökull erupting | Hot spots on Eyjafjallajökull Volcano |
| Photos of Eyjafjallajökull erupting | Detailed View of Eyjafjallajökull Ash Plume |
| Eyjafjallajökull Eruption – Effects | Ash Plume across the North Atlantic |
| Eyjafjallajökull – Ash Spread | Volcano Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland |
| Lighning over Eyjafjallajökull | Iceland volcano: an eyeful of Eyjafjallajökull |
| How do volcanoes form? | Eyjafjallajökull – Wikipedia |
| Lesson ideas Inspired by the Icelandic Volcano | |
photo by Daníel Örn (source: Flickr Creative Commons)
Pupil Presentation based around Eyjafjallajökull
Ask your pupils to prepare a 3 minute presentation on Eyjafjallajökull , and share it on the whiteboard. Ask them to consider the following:
- Where is it?
- What type of volcano is it?
- How big is its crater?
- What is its height / elevation in metres?
- When did it last erupt?
- What caused the eruption in April 2010?
- What happens when a volcano erupts under a glacier?
- What impact has there been on local residents?
- How might the impact have been different if the volcano were in an LEDC?
- What impact has there been on other parts of the world?
- What is the economic impact on Iceland, and other parts of the world?
- How and why does the impact differ from the last time it erupted?
- What is the impact of weather conditions on the ash cloud?
- Include some real life case studies.
See our Tectonics Guide for more ideas on teaching about Volcanoes
Deadline for FREE OS Mapping
FREE OS OpenData for All Schools
A new set of national Ordnance Survey maps is now being provided free of charge by the Government. uLearn is the only service enabling access to these maps for schools entirely without charge. To use this free mapping, click here to register, and select the Free Map Service option.
OS Miniscale Relief map
UK Miniscale Map 2009
Extra OS Data if you Purchase a uLearn Licence Now
Upgrade to a full uLearn licence (Primary £95 / Secondary £195), and uLearn will provide you with EVEN MORE Ordnance Survey maps.
Any school that purchases a uLearn licence within one week of this post will receive extra OS maps including: OS1:25,000, OS1:50,000 and OS MasterMap Topography. Click here to purchase a uLearn licence now so that you can use uLearn’s full set of maps and resources.
uLearn’s Amazing Topic Tool
uLearn is your helping hand to find Geography and History resources in your most frequently studied areas. Simply tick the appropriate Geography or History Topic box to see all the resources you need light up across the map.
uLearn topics light up across the map
uLearn’s Library puts 30,000 resources at your fingertips, and makes them easier to find and easier to use than any other tool. Click here to purchase a uLearn licence now so that you can use uLearn’s full set of maps and resources.
Visit ulearn.webbased.co.uk for further information
Or contact the uLearn support team on 01752 797134
Click here to see a full uLearn Newsletter
Having trouble with any of the links? Email ulearn.support@webbased.co.uk
Refer a friend and get 2 months free!
Have you purchased a uLearn licence, or are you thinking of doing so?
An extra incentive: If you know of another school that might find uLearn useful, please do let them know.
If you do this, please email ulearn.support@webbased.co.uk with the name of the school you have contacted. If the school purchases a uLearn license within a month’s time, we will add an extra two free months to the uLearn license you have purchased!
Don’t forget that uLearn’s full licence functionality allows you access to these great features:
- Library of 30,000+ resources
- Compare 2 maps at a time
- Resource Search
- Activelinks
- Topics
- Playlists
- Map Annotation
- Resource Upload
- Linking resources to map (geocoding)
For a full comparison, view the uLearn factsheet here.
NEW! uLearn Help Videos
We’ve just uploaded a few new videos to help new users use maps and searches in uLearn. View the videos below, or visit our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/uLearnMaps
This video shows how uLearn’s resources can be linked to locations on the map. Create lessons in an instant!
This video shows how you can search for places, postcodes, locations and grid references in uLearn.
This video shows how you can search for various resources in uLearn. Not only does uLearn support the teaching of Geography, its rich resource library contains over 30,000+ resources covering every subject area!
This video demonstrates how to use uLearn’s mapping tools. Fade between mapping, view and compare maps side by side in an instant!
This video demonstrates how you can fade between two different maps in uLearn. www.ulearn.infomapper.com
uLearn and Ordnance Survey OpenData
This week, Ordnance Survey released a substantial amount of their datasets free for public use. This is fantastic news for teachers and GIS users everywhere, and we at uLearn are already working to incorporate the data to expand our existing map and layer sets.
uLearn can now offer all OS datasets within both its Free Map Print and Full Licence versions.
The new maps include:
- UK 1:250k
- UK Miniscale Grid 2009
- UK Miniscale No Grid 2009
- UK Miniscale Relief 1
- UK Miniscale Relief 2
OS Miniscale Relief map
And coming soon:
- UK Street View 1:10K
- OS VectorDistrict mapping, covering 1:25K and 1:50K scales.
Topographical Layers
uLearn now also has access to OS’s topographical layers. These layers can be used to overlay geographical features on maps to aid learning in the classroom.
OS Meridian vector layers
- Roads
- Railways
- Administrative Areas
- Developed Land Use Areas
- Cartographic Names
- Hydrology
- Woodlands
Rivers layer overlaid on aerial mapping
OS Boundary-Line Data
- County
- European constituencies
- Greater London
- Metropolitan districts
- Scottish parliamentary electoral region
- Unitary authorities
- Welsh Assembly Electoral Region
- Westminster constituencies
- Unique identifiers
- Area measurements
Layer overlay showing Westminster Constituencies
OS Strategi vector layers:
- A Roads
- Ferry Routes
- Roman Roads
- National Parks
- Urban Regions
uLearn has reached an agreement with Ordnance Survey Ireland and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland to enable users from each area to access each other’s maps.
Scoilnet Maps users can now see in full detail OSNI’s rich current, historic and aerial mapping of Northern Ireland, and Ni Maps users can see the corresponding OSI data.
New teaching resources
We’ve recently added some new playlists to help with frequently-studied topics. Come and have a look around the Playlists section to see resources that can help make teaching easier.
Studying Coasts? Our Coastal Change playlist has resources covering the Jurassic Coast and the ever-popular Holderness Coast.
Resources relating to the Holderness Coast
Studying the Norman conquest? Why not take a look at ‘The Normans’ playlist? It has worksheets and resources on the Normans and the Battle of Hastings – everything you need for studying the topic with your class.
Resources relating to the Battle of Hastings
We’ve also added playlists on Weathering, Cliffs and the Holderness Coast, with more being added all the time.
