General+Geography

On this page you can find some useful (and interesting!) geography ideas, resources and links as well as some other cool stuff. This is for students at all levels. Some of the skills you might be interested in are similar for all levels and so are listed under the general heading.

[|New Zealand current events] - It is important to keep up with what is happening in New Zealand and around the world. As all this 'stuff' happens in places and generally people are involved it is geography. Below is a list of the latest headlines from the Stuff website.

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[|Newseum]. This site displays the front page of hundreds of todays newspapers around the world, a couple are even from New Zealand. Most of these are not archived, but the archive section does contain the front pages when there are significant events, although these tend to be from an American perspective.

[|Geography quiz]. While these quizzes are not strictly geography in our sense, some of you may enjoy the challenge.

[|NZQA]. An explanation is probably not required!

[|Geography at the movies] is a British site of small video clips that explain some of the concepts you might be looking at in Geography. There are heaps of clips here, so if you find any that you think I would really like then jot down the url and let me know.

Geography dictionary for those of you stuck on a geographic term.

The water cycle is one of those systems that appears in all three levels in Geography, therefore it appears on this page as general geography. If you want a little more detail about the water cycle - try here.

How are rocks formed?

After the recent earthquake in Christchurch I have added the link to access a site that lists the latest NZ earthquakes this updates almost immediately.

Something for a bit of fun - see how the world has changed since you were born.

[|Wordle] is a site that might be quite useful as a title page for a glossary section that you might like to use for a project.

[|Tag galaxy] is a cool way of finding images on any topic you can think of. [|Cooliris] is another cool image search engine.

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