Other projects
Google UK Carbon Footprint Project
www.google.co.uk/carbonfootrpint/schools.html
The Google UK Carbon Footprint Project makes information on calculating and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as information on climate change in the UK, easily accessible to everyone. The project enables you to calculate your carbon footprint, choose personalised carbon-reducing actions and compare your footprint and actions to those of others around the country by placing yourself on the Google UK Carbon Footprint Map.
Join schools across the country taking part. We've developed lesson plans to help integrate this project into the curriculum (see the climate change lesson plans on the primary and secondary geography pages of this site). In addition to this particular activity, the lesson plans explore the topic of climate change more broadly, with ideas for how to use Google tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and Search to bring the subject to life.
The carbon footprint site also features other related projects for schools.
Doodle 4 Google
www.google.co.uk/doodle4google
At Google, we like to reflect the ever changing world of our users through the logo designs on our homepage. These "doodles" celebrate different people, events or special dates and, until now, have been designed by our original Doodler, 29-year-old Dennis Hwang.
The 'Doodle 4 Google' competition asks young people across the UK to design their own doodle. The theme of this year's competition was "My Future". Whether technological advances, visions for the world, personal ambition, or something entirely different, hundreds of thousands of children created doodles that represented how they imagined the future. The winning doodle was displayed on the Google UK homepage for a day, and was seen by around 20 million people.
Free Google Earth Training for Teachers
These practical workshops show teachers and expedition organisations how to create virtual fieldwork using Google Earth. Participants get hands-on experience with digital cameras and GPS units, creating mini-fieldwork projects, and transformed data into a Google Earth virtual journey.
For information on course dates and details visit the Royal Geographical Society website. The course handbook, "Virtual Fieldwork using Google Earth", provides detailed information on how to use Google Earth.
About Digital Explorerwww.digitalexplorer.co.uk
Digital Explorer started as a project to involve more pupils in overseas youth expeditions. Using the latest digital media, internet and satellite technologies, small groups of pupils can send back video, images and journal entries to their peers in the UK classroom. The journey of a few becomes the gateway to understanding for many.
The most recent Digital Explorer expedition, in partnership with the Offscreen Education Programme, took nine pupils from East London to Oman and the UAE. Thousands of pupils followed the expedition online on the award-winning website.
Digital Explorer currently runs expeditions to bring the world to the classroom, and provides training and consultancy to schools and organisations so that they can use the same methodologies to help young people better understand their world. The Virtual Fieldwork Using Google Earth courses were developed to share Digital Explorer’s use of Google Earth with educators and other expeditions.
The Enterprise Zone
www.enterprise-zone.co.uk
This website for secondary students and teachers explores the fascinating and dynamic world of enterprise. Some of the top businesses in the country, including Google, share what enterprise means to them through actual challenges they have faced. Linked into cross-curricular subjects, The Enterprise Zone brings enterprise to life!