GEOGRAPHY

We have added a range of apps that you may find useful for Geography. Feel free to browse them and find which ones you think you could upload or invest in.

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Kahoot

This is one of the most popular apps among teachers and pupils alike. It is used to create interactive quizzes which pupils can play in the class. The students with the quickest and correct answers win. This is a great way of ending a class and recapping learning.

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Morfo Booth

This is your chance to create a 3D talking head. Choose a famous explorer or someone from another country. Students can voice the words and record them. This can be used to help students explain various ecosystems or cities around the world

CLICK FOR MORFO

Quizlet

This is a very handy revision tool. Create a variety of revision games using the easy to use app. You can add geography terms and try to match them with the correct answers. You can also add voice memos to these Quizlets - helping with pronunciation and in memorising text from books.

click for Quizlet

ShowMe

This is a great little app. Very simple in its concept. It allows pupils to make the iPad an interactive open pad to simply write or draw on. Simple as that

It can be used to test knowledge by asking pupils questions in the class

How can you use this with Geography?
You can test knowledge quickly by asking them to write down the answer to display.
They can record themselves writing answers to questions.
They can record themselves drawing and labelling volcanoes / Ecosystems

Click for Show Me

Strip Designer

This is an excellent comic strip app. You can use it to design storyboards. Pupils can create a scene from a play or recreate scenes from a book themselves.

How can you use it in Geography ?

• Pupils could be inspired to use it to create a story with each panel of the Comic being designed by a different pupil/s and the work displayed in large size in the classroom or corridors.
• Create storyboards
  
• Describe the water cycle using a comic strip
  

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Weebly

This is a fabulous, easy to use web site design site. It has an education site which is free for teachers and can be used to create websites for the school. for subjects or for pupil projects. It is highly intuitive and very easy to produce a website in minutes!
How can you use it in Geography?

• Use it to create online sections in which pupils can display their talent - posters ; model volcanoes, diagrams and pictures can all be effectively displayed online
  
• Use it to create a focus on a topic- Combine text, pictures, gallery and Youtube links on a page to enable students to research
  

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NATIONAL GEO ATLAS

The redesigned World Atlas app from National Geographic is one of the best world geography reference resources available.

The Atlas features Nat Geo's award-winning cartography and stats and facts about every country on Earth.

• Get flags, facts, and stats for every country and territory
  
• Receive daily trivia, pop quizzes, and on-this-day information.
  

Click for National Geographic Link

STACK THE COUNTRIES

 fun and engaging way for students to learn about continents and countries across the globe.
This covers the key geography concepts including:

• Major cities, capitals, border countries, continents, historic landmarks, flags, languages, and country shapes.

The app contains more than 1000 questions along with flash cards and interactive maps for each country.

Stack the Countries Link

YOUR WORLD

Your World is the perfect way to learn the countries, capital cities, landmarks of the world; and the states of the USA.

With 483,528 downloads, and counting, Your World has become a hugely popular geography app.

CLICK FOR YOUR WORLD APP

LANDFORMS

This wonderful app contains 17 sections on the below landforms:
Canyons ; Caves ; Continents
Deltas ; Gulf; Hills ; Islands Lakes
Mountains;  Oceans; Peninsulas
Plains; Plateaus; Rivers; Valleys
Volcanoes; Waterfalls

CLICK FOR LANDFORMS LINK

QUAKES

Want to see the latest earthquakes?
Download this app to visualize and get notified of earthquakes.
Browse the seismograph chart, map, or list to see when and where earthquakes have occurred

CLICK FOR QUAKE LINK

GOOGLE EARTH

This app is so famous that there is little description needed for it. You can now fly your class around the planet with a swipe of your finger Explore distant lands, Search for cities, places and landmarks. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. See the world at street level with integrated Street View.

GOOGLE EARTH

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