On-line Reources: BigPictureSmallWorld, GEO Data Portal, and Exploring the Environment

Here are the links to on-line resources:

BigPicture SmallWorld movies such as "World in 10 Seconds", "Environment in 10 Seconds", and "Increasing Humanity". UN sponsored and can be shown live from an internet connection with a computer.

"The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats."

Exploring the Environment Modules Page. This site provides complete resources and instructions for ill-structured problems for a variety of subjects: geography, history, environmenal science, and other disciplines. The site can be used as the only resource for an ill-structured problem investigation, or it can be used as a starting point.

PCU, Personal Computer Use, and LoTi, Levels of Technology Integration Information

The LoTi connection has a great set of handouts that illustrate levels of Personal Computer Use (PCU) and well as Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi). Other pages on the same site have teacher questionnaires and links to LoTi resources for educators.