TE year2sourcebook/year2 unit1 Topics of Study in the Unit

The topics of study in Unit 1 are

Creating resources using educational tools - Digital Maps and atlases (Geography)

KGeography

Atlas is an essential resource for a Geography teacher. An atlas is required to learn political geography as well as physical geography. KGeography is a Free and open source digital atlas that provides maps of continents, countries and states (political geography). Simple quizzes are available in KGeography to test understanding / memory of different regions.

You can create image files of the maps you are working on, by using the Screenshot application. You can create a text document for that country, by inserting the image and entering some interesting information about the country and its people, their culture, history, vegetation which you may have got from the internet, or your teachers or your friends or family. Try to write about the and any connections you can make among these aspects.

A second resource creation method is to use the quiz’s in KGeography for testing.

Reference: Learn Marble

Marble

Marble is a virtual desktop globe and world atlas which can be used to create resources on physical geography. It has many digital maps of the Earth. These maps provide information about physical geography of the Earth, including topography, rainfall, climate etc. It also has ‘historical’ maps which give the information about the Earth at various points in time in the past, relating to political regimes at that time.

You can create a text document resource, and use images of the maps you are working on, by using the Screenshot application, for any of the physical geography features like temperature, rainfall etc.

Reference: Learn Marble