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| About.com |  |
| US focused geography web directory listing links to other sites. Extensive and therefore can take time to navigate through. Quality of information depends on quality of destination site. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://geography.about.com/education/scilife/geography/
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| BBC News | |
| BBC On-line News Service. Frequent up-dates. Much of value when Geography makes the news. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk
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| BBC News Archive | |
| BBC On-line News Service searchable archive. | Key Stage 3, 4 &5 |
http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/ksenglish/query.htm
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| CIA World Factbook | |
| Online atlas including maps and data on countries throughout the world. The World Factbook is prepared by the US Central Intelligence Agency. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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| InfoPlease.com | |
| On-line encyclopedia, almanacs & dictionary. Links in World category, U.S. (Geography), Science & Technology
(Weather) and Science/Technology (Energy/Environment) are more informative. U.S.A. based sites. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.infoplease.com/
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| Urban Regeneration Research Summaries | |
| Reports from Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (detr) of UK government. Detailed information for A2 level students. | Key Stage 5 |
http://www.urban.odpm.gov.uk/research/summaries/index.htm
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| Atlapedia Online |  |
| Online atlas. Contains colour physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. Publishers Latimer Clarke Corporation Pty Ltd. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html
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| Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics | |
| A useful site giving background to statistics and meauring. There is also a companion online site in statistical analysis of data. The site is written by a professor of Psychology, so the examples etc. are not geographical. Still, very good for general principles and includes chi square, Student t-test, Spearman Rank Correlation amongst many others. | Key Stage 5 |
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html
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| InfoPlease: Flags | |
| Flags of every country. | Key Stage 2, 3 & 4 |
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0201477.html
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| InfoPlease: World Statistics | |
| Data on many aspects of the world. Some selected lists, others covering all major countries. General World, Population, Social, Economic, Political and Worldwide Conflict statsitics. | Key Stage 2, 3 & 4 |
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004372.html
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| Map Machine Atlas | |
| Online atlas from National Geographic. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/index.html
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| National Geographic Archive | |
| Archive from The National Geographic magazine. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/archives.html
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| National Geographical Society | |
| Selected content from The National Geographic magazine. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html
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| Ordnance Survey Get-A-Map | |
| A free service from Ordnance Survey allowing you to print maps or copy them for use on your personal or business web site. You can search for maps of all parts of the UK at various scales simply by entering your place name, post code or National Grid reference. Good for mini extracts to show local details at 1:50000 scale.
| Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk/about_us/site.cfm?display=/getamap/getamap_index.htm
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| The Ghostwheel Information Project | |
| A searchable on-line web dictionary with each definition giving links for the words in it. Uses Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). General English dictionary, not Geography specific. | Key Stage |
http://projects.ghostwheel.com/
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| GeoNet Game |  |
| US geography online multichoice questions/game. Houghton Mifflin Company | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.eduplace.com/geo/indexhi.html
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| New Scientist | |
| Selected articles & information online, with archive copies from the New Scientist magazine. Occasional earth science, ecological and environmental articles. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.newscientist.com
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| Space Radar Images of Earth | |
| NASA images of earth from space, using RADAR. Images categorised by Archaeology, Cities, Ecology & Agriculture, Geology, Interferometry, Oceans, Rivers, Snow, Ice, Glaciers and Volcanoes. | Key Stage 5 |
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/
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| Global Gazetteer |  |
| This is a directory of 2880532 cities in the world giving details of latitude, longitude and altitude (elevation/height). | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.calle.com/world/
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| Globe Visualisation | |
| Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study the global environment. GLOBE students make observations at and report through the Internet. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://globe.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/home.cgi
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| How Far Is It? | |
| Locates major cities on globe and calculates direct distances between them. By Darrell Kindred. | Key Stage 3 |
http://www.indo.com/distance
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| Alaskan climate & data |  |
| Key Stage |
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/
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| Automotive Empires | |
| The world car industry is under pressure to consolidate, but it is already one of the most multinational industries. BBC News Online guides you through the main automotive groups and what they own. | Key Stage |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_678000/678496.stm
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| InfoPlease: Countries | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
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| InfoPlease: Geography | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001742.html
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| Statistical tests | |
| This site provides a brief outline of many useful statistics tests and allows you to enter data and automatically calculates the chosen test result. | Key Stage 5 |
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/Service/CGI-Inline/HTML/Statistics.html
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| The Rover breakdown | |
| BBC News report on the difficulties faced by car manufacturer, Rover - Tuesday, 2 May, 2000 | Key Stage |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_273000/273080.stm
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| Understanding unemployment | |
| BBC report on the several ways to measure unemployment. | Key Stage |
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/business_basics/newsid_92000/92830.stm
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| US Global Change Research Information Office | |
| The US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to data and information on global environmental change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change related educational resources | Key Stage |
http://www.gcrio.org/
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