Coastal & River Landscapes is divided into 5 major sections, as indicated in the menu bar to your left. These sections include Introduction, Lessons, Documents, Links, and Contact Us.

Introduction

Includes the Welcome Message and the How To document you are presently reading.

Lessons

This website contains 8 lessons, each lesson having 6 components for student and teacher access. Click on the lesson number in the left-hand menu to reveal the choices for each lesson.

Task	Provides detailed instructions for students to follow in completing the selected lesson. This section will also provih0@h0@ to background or supplementary information that students may require.
Sample	One or more visual examples of the task assigned to students are provided to give students visual guides and to clarify the expectations of the assignment.
Photos	A variety of photos are provided to give different perpectives and vantage points for the geographical features being studied. Each lesson includes a combination of aerial photography (black & white, infra-red, and 1:10000 colour) and closeup colour photographs. These are the photos that students will save and manipulate using graphics editing or drawing software to identify the specified geographical features.
Maps	Digital maps of various scales of each region are included in the lessons. In some cases, these maps simply provide a point of reference for the feature's location, whereas others will be manipulated by the students to trace specific features, as indicated in the photos section above.
Teacher's Notes	Suggestions for implementation, instructions for use of technology, and some helpful hints are all contained here.
Video	Each lesson may include one or more brief narrated video clips (in mpeg format) of the geographical feature(s) in question.

Documents

The Documents Library contains powerpoint presentations, sample slides, and important background information to help both students and teachers with these lessons. Be sure to check them out before beginning the lessons.

Links

Some important resources can be found here. Please note that all of the aerial photographs and digital maps on this website have been provided by Geomatics. If you are interested in obtaining any of their products, contact them using the link at left.

Contact Us

Several key people have been involved in the creation of this GrassRoots project, including Turk MacDonald and Steve Moroney (the Project Co-Ordinators) and Paul Boudreau (Site Designer and Web Master). Please feel free to contact us via email or at Lockview High, Fall River, NS, at any time.

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Each of the lessons requires that students "trace" or "outline" geographical features in various maps and photographs using image editing or painting software. The samples on this website were completed using Jasc Software's PaintShop Pro. This is a Shareware product available for free download, but is only available for the PC and not the Mac. Any other software that includes painting or drawing features would work. Examples include Adobe Photoshop (www.adobe.com), CorelDraw or Corel PhotoPaint (www.corel.com), and Macromedia Fireworks (www.macromedia.com).