Earth NullSchool - now available as an app

Earth NullSchool is probably in the top five websites I've used in my teaching over the years, alongside sites like Digimap for Schools and Google Earth.

It is now available as an app for iOS and Android.

It works perfectly in landscape or portrait format on your device, and has all the same features as the desktop / web browser version.

Bugs Matter

There are concerns about the decline in insects.

We have signed up to Bugs Matter to help gather data.

Bugs Matter have produced an app and website.

Instructions of how to get involved:

Before making an essential journey, clean your front number plate. At the end of your journey, place the splatometer over the middle of your front number plate and count the number of squashed flies and other dead bugs you can see through the holes- zero splats still count! Remember to take a photo with the splatometer in place too. Then crucially – submit your count and photo using the app to record the information.

The survey runs from 1st June to 31st August when insects are most active and abundant.

Earth Primer: coming soon to the Geography department.... in fact it's here already...

A month or so ago, I picked up on an app that was getting ready for adding to the App store. I contacted Chaim Gingold, who worked on the game called SPORE some years ago, and found out more about it, and started to get excited about the potential for teaching the ideas that underpin geomorphology to a lower school audience, and those who may just be interested in finding out more about how the Earth works.

The app is now live on the App store at a cost of £7.99, and is called Earth Primer.
Take a look here.

It allows the user to explore the world in an exciting way and explore how processes that shape the earth work.
There are several sections which are possible to work through and these include a look beneath the surface of the Earth as well as the range of processes which change the surface.
Work through the book to unlock tools which can then be used in the Sandbox section of the app.

I'm working on some education materials for the app, which will be available in a few weeks time.

A chance to 'BEE' useful...

Geography Ambassadors went bee spotting today. We found one...
It's part of a project to explore the decline in bee numbers.

If you want to take part in the Bee Survey and contribute to this citizen science project, download the free app from the app store (iOS and Android) and contribute your sightings... 

Let's bee having you !!

Also text BEE to 78555 to get a bee poster for a £2 donation...

GCSE Geography App - free today only (April 22nd)

Click HERE to get free revision app...