Digimap for Schools is a mapping tool that can be used in Scottish classrooms and outdoors education to put maps and locations at the center of teaching social studies. It provides access to Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain at different scales that can be viewed, annotated, printed, and used to add maps and measure distances for reports. The presentation encouraged teachers to think about how often they use maps in place-based learning and what map details and information they need, and rated their own map skills.

1. The impact for learning and teaching
of using Digimap for Schools in
Scottish classrooms (and outdoors)
Carol Blackwood
EDINA Geoservices Support
Education Scotland Digital Learning Day 21st
March 2015

2. Putting maps and location at the
centre of teaching Social Studies

3. Thinking about places and maps…
• Did you look at a map to get here today?
• How often to you teach about places and local
area? Do you look at a map as part of those
studies?
• What kind of detail do you need to see?
• What kind of information could you communicate
with a map?
• How would you rate your map skills?

4. • Online mapping
Ordnance Survey current
and historic mapping
• Whole of GB coverage
• Range of scales
• View, annotate and print
• Present your own
information, measure
distances, add maps to
reports, print maps to
take outside

5. http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk
Free Resources - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/resources
Free Trial - http://www.digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/demonstration