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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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| Discovery Channel Online | |
| Updates on natural hazards globally. From The Discovery Channel. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
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| Environment Glossary | |
| United Nations Statistics Division glossary of environmental key words and terms. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environmentgl/default.asp
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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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| Office for National Statistics | |
| UK Government statistics online. Many from publications such as Social Trends & Regional Trends. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.ons.gov.uk/
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| VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation | |
| A useful site to work out your statistical test scores by entering data only. You do need to know what test you want to use though as the guidance is not that clear. There is also a companion online text guide about the background concepts in statistical analysis of data. This site is written by a professor of Psychology, so the examples etc. are not geographical. Still, excellent for quickly working out test results and includes chi square, Student t-test, Spearman Rank Correlation amongst many other statistics. | Key Stage 5 |
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.htm
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| WebShots | |
| Large collection of professional photographs available for free download. Photos organised by categories, but also searchable. Some excellent and stimulating images of places. | Key Stage 2, 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.webshots.com/
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| World Health Organisation | |
| Data on socio-economic & health indicators online. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.who.ch/
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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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| Dictionary at Britannica.com | |
| On-line web dictionary that can be searched. Uses Merriam-Webster | Key Stage |
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/dictionary/
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| GIS Kids | |
| A very good introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how they operate. Perhaps a little difficult for the younger age groups. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/maps/gis/slide_1.htm
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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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| 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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| UNEP | |
| Vast array of economic, soial, population and environmental data in data sets from United Nations Environment Programme, a leading global environment agency. Comprehensive coverage, but familiarity with selecting dataset from databases helps with tracking data. | Key Stage 5 |
http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/
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| Working with Maps | |
| US site for all ages in 3 levels. Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps. With Teacher Guide. From U.S. Geological Survey. | Key Stage 1, 2, 3 & 4 |
http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/Maps.html
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| Food and Agriculture Organisation |  |
| FAO is a large agency in the United Nations and the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.fao.org/
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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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| Old Maps | |
| An extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or what an area looked like over a hundred years ago. Useful for historical comparisons, (but when we tried it, the site did not always work. Be prepared to use your Back button and try a few times to get your map).
| Key Stage 2, 3, 4 & 5 |
http://www.old-maps.co.uk
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| World Web Cams | |
| Interactive map with links to a selection of web cams around the world. Interesting images, but perhaps of less value for studying as with all web cams, image quality isn | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://dove.mtx.net.au/~punky/World.html
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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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| American Geographical Society |  |
| Key Stage |
http://www.amergeog.org/
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| BECTA | |
| British Education Computer Technology Agency, formerly NCET. Resources section gives CD reviews mainly for Key Stage 4. | Key Stage |
http://www.becta.org.uk
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| Comptons Encyclopedia | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/
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| Computers in Teaching Initiative | |
| University of Leicester site. Directory of links arranged under geographical topic, national & international organisation, data sources and educational resources. | Key Stage |
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/cti
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| Geography National Curriculum | |
| UK government Department for Education and Skills site. Provides details of content of National Curriculum for Geography, level descriptors and assessment, QCA/DfEE schemes of work, useful resources and support materials. | Key Stage 1, 2 & 3 |
http://www.nc.uk.net/servlets/Subjects?Subject=Gg
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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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| National Geographic magazine | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html
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| National Grid for Learning | |
| Registration is required (free). Links to Virtual Classroom and Classroom Resources.
Includes review of recommended web sites. | Key Stage |
http://www.ngfl.gov.uk
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| NGfL Resource Centre | |
| A joint initiative by BT, Microsoft and RM for a subscription-free online teacher
resource centre to support the National Grid for Learning. | Key Stage |
http://www.teachergrid.com
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| Ordnance Survey | |
| Main OS web site educational resources. | Key Stage |
http://www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk/education/site.htm
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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 World Bank | |
| Home page of the international develpoment organisation. | Key Stage |
http://www.worldbank.org/
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| Working with Maps: Exploring Maps | |
| Exploring Maps (for grades 7-12) Key Stage 3 & 4 | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/wwmaps.html
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| Working with Maps: Map Adventures | |
| Map Adventures (for grades K-3) Key Stage 1 & 2 | Key Stage 1 & 2 |
http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/MA/
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| Working with Maps: What Do Maps Show? | |
| What Do Maps Show (for grades 3-8) Key Stage 2 & 3 | Key Stage 2 & 3 |
http://info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.html
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| World Wide Fund for Nature | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.panda.org
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| Yahoo - Social Science | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/socialscience
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| Yahoo Ecology | |
| Key Stage |
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/science/ecology
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| Yahoo Search Engine | |
| Potentially useful, but very variable, sites listings from search engine/classification Yahoo. | Key Stage |
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/science/geography
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