Pupils find real excitement and involvement in their learning activities when exploring maps of the localities they know well.

  Information presented graphically (using maps) is much more accessible to learners.

  uLearn only includes resources that teachers have found to be useful and that meet the real needs of the curriculum, meaning that you do not have to spend precious time sifting through often irrelevant data. The information you need is all in one place and ready to use.

  Maps give learners a visual reference to help them organise, make sense of and therefore retain important information.

  Steadily adding to a set of local map-linked resources, particularly when doing a Local Study, allows you to use the same resource set to address multiple curriculum outcomes. This is a massive help especially when the curriculum is so full and preparation time so short.

  uLearn taps into the extraordinary popularity of social networking, allowing users to share their learning, resources and expertise. Collaborative learning is vital in today's classroom, so by sharing your own resources and using those produced by others you are contributing to this important educational social network.

  The secondary Geography curriculum now requires teachers to embed the use of GIS (Geographical Information Systems), not just Google maps, into their teaching. Within its small cost, uLearn provides a wide range of maps that really excite learners - from world, county and street maps to historical data and aerial photography.