We’ve put together a series of 4 short guides on using Digimap for Schools. The guides are intended to be worked through over 4 weeks and new subscribers to the service will be sent one each week, post sign-up. Each guide takes just 10 minutes and by week 4, you’ll be making the most of the cross-curricular potential that Digimap for Schools offers.
We guide you sequentially through key features and provide short videos to demonstrate each function. A short practise exercise plus links to some of our lesson ideas are included.
Have a look and let us know what you think!
- Week 1 Maps and Places Get to grips with the essentials of searching, zooming and viewing our range of maps – contemporary, historic and aerial.
- Week 2 Making your mark Find out how to add text, shapes, symbols and images to your maps. Create prints in different sizes and formats. Organise your maps into folders for different classes or projects.
- Week 3 The numbers Check out how to find a grid reference and measure map features. Add measurement labels to any shapes and lines you create.
- Week 4 Explore and Report Explore the Geograph images available at your location. Add buffer zones. Create and upload a file of points to your maps.
Week 3 – add measurement labels.
Lesson ideas
Remember we have lots of resources, written by curriculum experts, with great ideas for using Digimap for Schools. Browse by subject and level at our resources site:
https://dfsresources.edina.ac.uk/
Keep in touch
We really value your feedback so let us know if we can improve these, or if there are any other resources that we can provide to help you get mapping!