The impact for learning and teaching of using Digimap for Schools in

Scottish classrooms (and outdoors)

Carol Blackwood

EDINA Geoservices Support

Education Scotland Digital Learning Day 21st

March 2015

Putting maps and location at the centre of teaching Social Studies

Thinking about places and maps…

• Did you look at a map to get here today?• How often to you teach about places and local

area? Do you look at a map as part of those studies?

• What kind of detail do you need to see?• What kind of information could you communicate

with a map?• How would you rate your map skills?

• Online mapping Ordnance Survey current and historic mapping

• Whole of GB coverage

• Range of scales

• View, annotate and print

• Present your own information, measure distances, add maps to reports, print maps to take outside

http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk

Free Resources - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/resources

Free Trial - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/demonstration