Issue 5, Summer 2014 Victorian maps reveal landscape changes Latest news Digimap for Schools now includes national coverage of historical Ordnance Survey 1 inch maps (1:63 360). These beautiful maps published between 1895 and 1899 as the Revised New Series in England and Wales and the 2nd Edition in Scotland, provide an additional rich learning resource and context for exploring how the landscape has changed in the last 120 years. The historic maps are provided courtesy of the National Library of Scotland (NLS) who have scanned and geo-referenced their collection of the 1 inch maps for public benefit. The high quality scans provide exceptional images that enables them to be enlarged far beyond their original scale of 1 inch to 1 mile and within Digimap for Schools the historic layer is viewable against a range of modern map scales up to 1:10 000 scale. This late Victorian mapping covers the whole of Great Britain giving a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place over this time period as illustrated in these examples. As well as examining change over time in geography the Victorian maps will obviously be of interest to history teachers. At primary level they may be very useful for study of the local area and in secondary studying Britain as the first industrial nation and the impact on society. 1890s One inch to one mile (1:63 360) map showing the newly opened Forth rail bridge. The present day 1:50 000 scale map includes the road bridge added in the 1960s and the current construction of the new road crossing. The contemporary map can be faded away to reveal the historic map.
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Issue 5, Summer 2014
Victorian maps reveal landscape changes
Latest newsDigimap for Schools now includes national coverage of historical Ordnance Survey 1 inch maps (1:63 360). These beautiful maps published between 1895 and 1899 as the Revised New Series in England and Wales and the 2nd Edition in Scotland, provide an additional rich learning resource and context for exploring how the landscape has changed in the last 120 years.
The historic maps are provided courtesy of the National Library of Scotland (NLS) who have scanned and geo-referenced their collection of the 1 inch maps for public benefit. The high quality scans provide exceptional images that enables them to be enlarged far beyond their original scale of 1 inch to 1 mile and within Digimap for Schools the historic layer is viewable against a range of modern map scales up to 1:10 000 scale.
This late Victorian mapping covers the whole of Great Britain giving a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place over this time period as illustrated in these examples.
As well as examining change over time in geography the Victorian maps will obviously be of interest to history teachers. At primary level they may be very useful for study of the local area and in secondary studying Britain as the first industrial nation and the impact on society.
1890s One inch to one mile (1:63 360) map showing the newly opened Forth rail bridge.
The present day 1:50 000 scale map includes the road bridge added in the 1960s and the current construction of the new road crossing.
The contemporary map can be faded away to reveal the historic map.
Digimap for schools latest news – Issue 5, Summer 2014
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So far this year we have given free training sessions to teachers in, Manchester, Nottingham, Leeds Port Talbot, Bangor, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London.
We are pleased to confirm that we will be able to continue to offer free teacher training for the coming year at schools that are prepared to gather 20 or more geography/history teachers from several local schools together. We particularly welcome enquiries from schools who are teacher trainer providers under the Schools Direct scheme. Training sessions are subject to availability. For school in England and Wales contact [email protected] or for Scotland contact EDINA at [email protected]
Free teacher training at your school
What’s been happening in Scotland?
On Saturday 15 March 2014, Education Scotland ran a Primary History 2014 Commemorations event to provide
We are delighted by the increasing take up of Digimap for Schools across all types of school. Over 21% of secondary schools in GB are now subscribers (32% in Scotland) and we see a strong correlation between schools that are highly rated in league tables (and other measures of excellence) and our list of users. Our fastest growth though is currently in primary schools as they prepare to teach the new national curriculum for geography from September 2014. This will require pupils to learn how to use six-figure grid references at Key Stage 2, a skill that was previously taught at Key Stage 3.
Digimap for Schools growth enables quality geography teaching
Focus on teaching resources – Quick ideas for using Digimap for Schools
Digimap for Schools has always been accompanied by teaching resources and we have recently fully revised them as reported in issue 4. Are you looking for some quick ideas to get going with Digimap for Schools? If so why not download the resource called ‘Quick ideas for using Digimap for Schools’ written by Alan Parkinson. He presents 12 quick classroom or homework ideas for secondary students. They include:
1. What could the area that is shown on your map extract have looked like in the past? Look for clues in place names and the existence of certain symbols.
2. Imagine you are an estate agent looking to market properties in the area. What are its good features and what might the estate agent avoid mentioning to prospective buyers?
3. Look at the area within 4 kms of your home. Can you identify anything on the map that you didn’t realise was there before? Go and visit this place.
4. And there’s more!
Quick ideas for using Digimap for Schools
Alan Parkinson
Geography teaching resource Key Stage 3
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‘It was very interesting to see the use of the Digimap for Schools package in a truly interdisciplinary way, bringing history to life through modern technology. The context of the First World War commemorations gave pupils the opportunity to improve numeracy and literacy and learn about the fate of Scots caught up in disaster’.
Lynne Robertson, Senior Education Officer Social Studies, Education Scotland
Top tip – printing at scale
Finding a national grid reference is easy in Digimap for Schools. Select the Grid Reference tool and click on the map to reveal a grid reference. Switch on the grid lines for clarity and zoom all the way out to show the grid number pre-fix letters.
Depending on which scale of mapping you are viewing, dictates how many figures are show for the reference, that is, if you are viewing a 1:50 000 map you will get a four figure grid reference, and as you zoom in, you will get more figures.
attending primary school teachers ideas on resources they could use to commemorate the 100th anniversary of WWI and the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn.
Anne Robertson, Edina, demonstrated how Digimap for Schools can be used to recount the story of an historic event. The historic event described was the sinking of HMS Iolaire near Stornoway on the 1 January 1919 with the loss of 205 local men returning from WWI, one of the worst maritime disasters in UK waters during the 20th century. Read more on the blog.
