Getting Started

Boardworks Geography

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What is Boardworks Geography?

Boardworks Geography is an educational package

designed for whole-class teaching on interactive
whiteboards and projectors. This PowerPoint
presentation is a teacher’s guide to getting started with
the product, and covers common questions and
technical advice. If you haven’t used a Boardworks
product before, it is recommended that you start here.

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What is in the product?
Boardworks Geography contains 7 units at KS3, each containing a
number of PowerPoint presentations, and 7 units at KS4.
For the full contents, please see below.
KS3
Map Skills: Introduction to maps; Latitude & longitude; Direction & scale; Map symbols; Grid references; Relief.
Plate Tectonics: Plate tectonics; Volcanoes (Mt St Helens 1980 and Nevada del Ruiz 1985); Earthquakes (Los Angeles 1994 & Turkey 1999).
Geology: Types of rock; Weathering.
Weather and Climate: Types of rain; Measuring the weather; UK weather; Weather maps; Depressions.
The Amazon: Physical geography; Amazonian Indians; Development in the Amazon.
Kenya: Human geography of Kenya; Physical geography of Kenya.
Farming: Types of farming; Farming as a system; Farming Distribution in the UK; Changes in farming; Environmental impacts of farming;
Organic farming.
KS4
Coasts: Coastal landforms & processes along the Dorset coastline; Coastal defence (Swanage).
Rivers: Drainage basins; Landforms and processes in the upper course; Landforms and processes in the middle and lower courses; Flooding
(Lynmouth).
Glaciation: Glacial landforms & processes in Snowdonia; Land use in a glaciated valley.
Energy: Non-renewable energy; Renewable energy (geothermal – Iceland, HEP – Brazil; wave – Islay).
Tourism: Factors affecting growth of tourism; National Parks; Conflicts in the Lake District National Park; International tourism (safari holidays
in Kenya).
Industry: Different types of industry; Growth and decline in the valleys of South Wales; Industrialization on the coastal strip of South Wales;
High technology industry.
Settlement: Site and situation; Settlement hierarchies & sphere of influence; Settlement shape; Settlement function; Urban redevelopment;
Urban renewal (London Docklands); New towns (Milton Keynes); Brownfield & greenfield developments (Cambourne in Cambridgeshire).

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How do I begin using the product?

To begin using the product, just open the folder that contains the
presentation you wish to open and double-click to open it. Each
presentation will open in Slide Sorter view. To view the presentation
as a Slide Show, click on View, Slide Show, or click on the slide
show icon at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

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Are there any teacher’s notes?

This product does not contain hard-copy teacher’s notes. Where a

slide contains notes that are intended for the teacher, you will see
an icon in the top-right hand corner, as above. These notes typically
include guidance on completing an activity or extra information. You
can view the notes during a slide show by right-clicking and
choosing Speaker Notes. When not in Slide Show view, go to View,
Normal, and you will see the notes field at the bottom of the page.
Another way to move to Normal View is to click on the icon at the
bottom-left of your screen, as below.

Normal View

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What about the Flash interactivity?
This product contains many interactive exercises designed in Flash,
a multimedia technology. In order to view the Flash, you will need to
have the most recent version of Macromedia Shockwave player
installed. You may already have this on your machine; to ensure
you have the correct version, double-click on the file
Flash_Shockwave_Full.exe on the CD-ROM.
Depending on the level of PowerPoint security, you may receive a
message warning you that macros are present in the product. These
macros enable the Flash to run and it is safe to enable them when
using our products.

Any slide which contains Flash will have the Flash icon in the top-
right hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable,
although they can be copied and pasted into other presentations,
like other objects in PowerPoint. All Flash activities should be
easy-to-use and self explanatory. In most activities the arrow icon
( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides
help should it be needed.
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Can I print from the presentations?

You can print all the slides in a presentation by simply clicking on

the printer icon; alternatively, you can print single slides by
navigating to that slide, clicking on File, Print, and checking the
“Current slide” option.
If you want to print the notes page that accompanies a slide,
change the “Print what” option to “Notes Page”.

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Can I edit the presentations?
One of the major advantages of Boardworks Geography is that it
has been created in PowerPoint which means it is editable. You are
free to use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the
presentations, including reordering, adding or deleting slides,
adding or removing text, or inserting your own activities or images.
The only items that aren’t editable are the Flash activities, and
these can still be copied and pasted between slides and
presentations.
Many schools save the original version of the product on the
network, with teachers saving their own versions locally.
Unless copyright is stated on the slide, you can use any media in your
own presentations for educational use within the school that has
bought the product. You must remove any media from your own
presentations if you move to another school. However, we cannot
grant copyright for items that we have licensed from another party;
these can be identified by the copyright line on the slide. The
Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details
and takes precedence over this document.
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Can I give you feedback?

At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products

and all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment
on any of the content in the product please do get in touch:

The Geography Editor

Boardworks Ltd
Oxford Centre for Innovation
Mill Street
Oxford
OX2 0JX
tel: 08703 50 55 60
fax: 08703 50 55 65
e: [email protected]

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