AEGIS 3

Product Overview

AEGIS 3 is an educational GIS (Geographic Information System) that is organised as an interactive worksheet with maps, data tables, text and pictures with notes. There are a number of sample worksheets included in the AEGIS 3 package:

· Fieldwork examples: local, urban and rural fieldwork
· EU data and worksheets on Italy, France and UK
· World development data and worksheets
· India census 2000
· Environment and landscape exercise with pictures and notes on the Studland peninsula

You can import large-scale Ordnance Survey digital maps of England Wales and Scotland into an AEGIS 3 worksheet and add your own fieldwork data to them. It comes with interactive documentation, which you can use on screen or print out to help you use the program.

Educational Benefits

AEGIS 3 is particularly appropriate for using on interactive whiteboards:

Use the interactive worksheets with maps to work through questions with pupils within the class to demonstrate their understanding.
Import your own maps and use them for class discussions. Perhaps get pupils to mark up a local map with local landmarks or their routes to school.
Use the world map and set of demographic, social and economic data to quickly compare different countries. Using the map on an whiteboard enables the whole class to clearly see all of the information.

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AEGIS 3 [v1.3] - single user (CD) Part No. 0SE-854 delivered within 2-3 weeks No Customer Reviews / Be the first to write a Review		£100.00	£95.00
AEGIS 3 - site licence (CD) Part No. 0SE-855 delivered within 2-3 weeks		£500.00	£475.00

Product Features

This new version of AEGIS comes with interactive worksheets of geography topics from Year 7 to A Level that teachers can use right away in the classroom. They have tasks to extend pupils understanding of Geography through guided GIS activities. There are also ideas and guidance for setting up maps and data for teachers or pupils to create interactive worksheets or coursework reports of their own.

What is an interactive worksheet?

The developers of AEGIS have been working on a new way to assemble AEGIS maps, tables of data and text and multimedia boxes on an A4 'page' on the computer screen to create an interactive worksheet. The data from the table can be displayed spatially as choropleth maps, thematic maps, flow line maps, bar or pie charts at the correct locations on the map. The maps are 'live' - you can plot the data you need, and choose different ways of displaying it. The individual elements of this Geographic Information System are clearly seen and easy to use and it's straightforward to assemble your own examples and reports.

Additional Information

There are many more examples of GIS activities linked to the Geography curriculum. Pupils can explore and investigate maps, data and pictures for topics at local, regional, national and world scale.

World development map and data

The new data is from the World Bank, UN and the Population Reference Bureau and is for 1999, with some for the year 2000. An up-to-date world map comes with this updated set of demographic, social and economic data and provides the basis for worksheets from Year 8 to A level. There are many investigations that can be made with this data to fit in with appropriate levels of Geography and ICT and these worksheets offer some ideas. Once pupils are familiar with ways to select, search and plot different criteria for countries on the world map they can carry out their own enquiries to further develop their thinking and analytical skills. The worksheets provide a framework for this progression to take place, but can easily be adapted for individual groups.

EU maps and data

Similarly, there is new regional data on Italy and France with comparable data on the UK. Worksheets have examples of approaches to using the maps and data in KS3 and KS4, but again, there are many possibilities to explore the data in different ways.

UK examples

In the UK there are lesson examples with worksheets on local rural issues and linking pictures to maps and aerial photographs for KS3, plus mapping of the CBD for GCSE coursework.

India

A map of the states of India and Census data for 2001 is provided on a sample worksheet in the AEGIS 3 package.

Doing it yourself

Loading your own maps, either maps created with AEGIS 2, or Ordnance Survey raster or vector maps is much easier in AEGIS 3 than before. When the maps are on the AEGIS 'page' you can adapt them with the Editor to link to sets of data. The data can be imported from Excel into the table on the 'page', or you can enter the data directly into the table.

Ordnance Survey maps

Large scale OS Land-Line maps and 1:50 000 OS raster maps can be loaded into AEGIS 3.

Aerial photographs
Aerial photographs can be loaded into AEGIS 3 in just the same way as OS raster maps. There is the opportunity to identify two grid reference points on the photograph to measure distances and areas. Once a background map or photograph has been geo-referenced in this way you can add a OS vector map overlay.

Adding pictures to the map

A new exciting part of AEGIS 3 is the facility for adding your own pictures of a locality to the local map. There are numerous possibilities to set up activities such as an interactive pupil report using digital pictures obtained on fieldwork, or a class mapping exercise to identify and investigate pictures at different locations in an unknown area. The choice of background 'map' could be a your own (or a pupil's) sketch map, a digital Ordnance Survey map, or a vertical aerial photograph.

Extending ICT and Geography with GIS activities

The examples and ideas in the AEGIS 3 pack are springboards for beginning to use GIS as a tool within Geography lessons. The examples offer an opening for those who have not used GIS before and wish to see how it can enhance teaching and learning. The extension activities show how the use of GIS can be further developed by teachers or pupils for fieldwork and coursework.

System Requirements

Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP.
14MB disk space.

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