From Sole to Toe: the story of a boot

A new StoryMap from Timberland: a company with strong sustainability credentials. This tells the story of the iconic yellow boot. It shows the global reach of this single product, which involves people from several continents, farmers and other industries.

Food Insecurity Map

Via Twitter. Useful for our 'Food for Thought' unit in Year 7

We mapped three levels of Adult #foodinsecurity at the local government scale across the whole of the UK. There is a great divide between places.
Esri ArcGIS - UK local food insecurity https://t.co/WNliV4vUTq

— Megan Blake (@GeoFoodieOrg) July 22, 2021

Some shocking food inequalities being revealed once again.

 

The Cost of Beef StoryMap

Fast Food StoryMap

Humber 2100 StoryMap

Thanks for the tipoff from Bob Lang to this ESRI StoryMap

The Humber estuary has some of the highest flood risk in the country and is vulnerable to rising seas - hence our work on a new strategy to 2100. Check out our interactive storyboard for everything on the Humber past, present and future https://t.co/1CYPCh5BjU #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/17tkUUSZIL

— John Curtin (@johncurtinEA) September 9, 2019

Useful for all sorts of rivers / flooding / landscape management related topics...

ESRI Water Balance App

Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff to this excellent app.

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/waterbalance/

The water balance panel (on the left) shows how much recharge or depletion occurred during your chosen month, and how this compares to what’s normal. The trend analyzer panel (on the right) shows how your chosen variable was different in the same month during other years. This panel also allows you to see the seasonal variation during a normal year (by graphing the average for each month) or aggregate the time series into annual time steps to see the long term trend more clearly.

Food Security StoryMap

Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff here... Useful for Year 9

ArcGIS Online now free for all schools

We have been using ArcGIS Online in school for several years now, and ESRI UK have kindly given us a free subscription for the last few years so that we can share our work.

At the end of the Awards presentation at this week's GA Conference Stuart Bonthrone, the MD of Esri UK stood up and made an announcement which was in some ways inevitable after events previously in the USA, and also very welcome.

Stuart announced that from immediate effect, ArcGIS Online will be free to all UK schools.

Under the heading of "The Science of Where", Stuart then played a short video featuring the inspirational work of Thierry Torres and colleagues at Dover Grammar School.


If you want to know more, and sign up your school, head for the ESRI UK Schools page.



I also had the chance to meet Steve Richardson, who is being employed to produce new resources and materials for teachers to encourage more use of the tool in classes.
There are already over 60 resources available, with plenty more to come.



Finally, check out the GeoMentors programme, which pairs up schools with GIS professionals.

Sign up your school now