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Traveolpod game
TravelPod lets you share your trips using your own online travel blog ( also known as a travel diary, travel journal or travelogue ). You can post travel blogs from previous trips or use TravelPod for your ongoing trips. By updating your travel blogs while you travel, you can share your adventures with everyone back home.
games4geog: interactive geography games for starters and plenaries
This site offers a collection of interactive geography games on various KS3 and KS4 topics. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Andrew Field of Content generator, whose flash games feature heavily on these pages! I've also used the Quia programs and the useful Hot Potatoes.
kmlfactbook.org
kmlfactbook.org allows you to create Google Earth KML files like the examples above from your own custom data.
iCityData.com: City Data Search
iCityData is a simple site where you can get demographic information on cities throughout the United States,and also compare cities.
Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely
This web site incorporates images and information from the Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely exhibition developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, which was on display at the Museum through November 2006. The exhibition puts a human face on warming in the Arctic by exploring how changes have been observed and documented by scientists and polar residents alike.
World of Change : Feature Articles
Inspired by our 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a
special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests,
oceans, human landscapes, even the Sun—has changed during the previous decade.
kmlfactbook.org
kmlfactbook.org can use either Google Maps or the Google Earth browser plugin to preview the KML files that you create. To switch between the two modes press the 2D Map and 3D Map buttons to the right in the screen.
The Preview in Map button will show the selected data-set in the Google Maps or Earth plugin preview window.
The Download KML file button will download the same file to be saved locally on your disk or opened in the standalone Google Earth application.
101 creatively simple ways to teach Geography. - Google Docs
creatively simple ways to teach Geography
Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups
Most people think of Google Maps (Google Maps reviews) in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there for Google (Google reviews) maps.
Internet Usage World Stats - Internet and Population Statistics
An International website featuring up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics and Internet Market Research Data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions.
GeoHive: Global Statistics
Welcome to GeoHive, a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more.
SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World
SHOW® is an online informational tool launched in May 2008 by Mapping Worlds. The website offers users a new way to look at the world by resizing countries on the map according to a series of global issues.
SHOW® covers a wide scope of subjects based on datasets provided by the most authoritative sources in their fields. New subjects are periodically added, please feel free to send us your suggestions.
SHOW® allows people to easily download datasets, maps and animations. These can be shared across the Internet through websites, blogs and email.
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