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Geography Links
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Alphabetical Listing
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Alderley Edge
Antarctica visitors guide
The Awesome Library
Biodiversity Hot Spots
Mr Bowerman
CIA World Factbook
Comprehensive site prepared by the CIA. Contains country profiles. flags, etc.
Cool Planet
Countries
e4s Education for Sustainability
Earth as Art
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Environment
Electronic Zoo
Four Seasons
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Development
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
English Nature
Environment and Conservation Countryside Council for Wales
Education World
Field Studies Council
Geography Exchange
Links to a wide range of geography resources. Some of the links from links from this webpage may have changed or disappeared!
Geography in the News
Geography IQ
An online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. It brings together a number of other resources including maps, flags, currency conversion as well as climate and time zone information.
Geography Site
Geography
Part of the About.com website, this covers all the essential topics.
GEOGRAPHY An Integrated Approach
This site has been designed specifically to accompany the AS/A2 geography text book, with links to useful websites and information on mark schemes and exam questions.
Geography Exchange
Links to a wide range of geography resources. Some of the links from links from this webpage may have changed or disappeared!
GeoInteractive
Geography teaching resources. Contains interactive resources for teachers. Part of this website is for subscribers, but there are plenty of free resources.
Geography IQ
An online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. It brings together a number of other resources including maps, flags, currency conversion as well as climate and time zone information.
The Geological Society
GeoNet
'A one-man bid to set up the definitive Web site for geography teachers and students' - 'Guardian Education', Tuesday January 7th 1997.
Glaciers and Tectonics Revision
Global Volcanism Program
Government site with population statistics
Internet Geographer
Internet Geography
A very comprehensive website produced by a teacher, aimed in particular at KS3 and GCSE students. Has a particularly good GCSE revision section. NGfL approved website.
GEOGRAPHY An Integrated Approach
This site has been designed specifically to accompany the AS/A2 geography text book, with links to useful websites and information on mark schemes and exam questions.
GeoNet
'A one-man bid to set up the definitive Web site for geography teachers and students' - 'Guardian Education', Tuesday January 7th 1997.
GeoResources
A wealth of geography related resources, with a special section on A' level modules.
The Internet Geographer
This directory of links covers human, physical and environmental geography in detail. It is strongly oriented to the UK, and contains links to much useful statistical data from authoritative sources. Includes a search facility.
Internet Geography
A very comprehensive website produced by a teacher, aimed in particular at KS3 and GCSE students. Has a particularly good GCSE revision section. NGfL approved website.
Internet Resources for Geography
Kenya’s tourism site
Kobe
Lessons
Mapzone
Merry Hill Centre out of town regional shopping centre
Montserrat eruption
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
National Forest
National Parks
PBS Voyage of the Odyssey
Population Links
From the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, this site contains useful links to web resources for teaching and learning on population issues for AS and A2 level geography
Portals to the World
Authoritative gateway to in-depth information on the countries of the world, assembled by subject experts at the Library of Congress.
Puzzles Test your knowledge with quick fire rounds on the geography of the world
Rockwatch
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Meteorological Society
Scottish Natural Heritage
Stats4schools
UK Neighbourhood Statistics
From National Statistics, this is a great site for finding a wealth of statistical information about your local borough, right down to ward level. Data can be presented in a variety of chart formats.
Volcanoes
Weather satellite images and forecasts
Wildlife Trust
Worldaware
World Bank
World Factbook
World Flag Database
A site with extensive map images and some basic data on countries.
World InfoZone
Contains detailed information about countries all across the world - including geography, history, environment, population, religion, economy, national food... all you need to know! NGfL approved website.
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Development
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Inside World
InsideWorld provides country background information for many countries and regions, including topics such as economy, government, demographics, geography.
ELDIS: Gateway to Development Information
Includes a particularly useful section of detailed country profiles including documents from such bodies as Oxfam, The World Bank and IMF and the UN Development Programme.
Department for International Development
...leading the British government's fight against world poverty.
World Development Movement
Tackling the root causes of poverty in the developing world by lobbying for changes in business and government policies; contains information on debt, aid and trade issues.
Jubilee
An international movement working for the abolition of third world debt
International Institute for Sustainable Development
"Policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable."
Sustainable Development: the UK government's approach
Reports on progress by the United Kingdom as a whole towards sustainable development.
Links on Sustainable Development
World Wide Web Virtual Library - thousands of useful resources.
G8 Gleneagles 2005
Discussions at the summit were Africa and climate change. The G8 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States
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Environment
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Committee on Climate Change
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is an independent body established under the Climate Change Act to advise the UK Government on setting carbon budgets, and to report to Parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Atmosphere, Climate and Environment
"Information on the causes, effects of and controls on air pollution and climate change. Includes a range of school resources, online encyclopedias and newsletters, and is an ideal resource for Key Stage 3-4 of the National Curriculum and A-level (K12 in the US), as well as for more general information concerning atmospheric issues."
Natural England
"Established by the Government in 1999 to: conserve and enhance England's countryside"
Amazon Interactive
Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the RÃo Napo.
Friends of the Earth
Waste Watch
Educates, informs and raises awareness on waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
Environmental News Network
Award-winning portal site with everything you could want to know about the environment from alternative energy to global warming. News articles come from Yahoo, CNN, National Geographic, Knight-Ridder and over 700 other organisations and are updated all the time.
Breathing Earth
Displays the carbon dioxide imission levels of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates - all in real-time.
Weather and Climate
Exploring Climate Change
Climate Chaos
Sow the seed
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Energy
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Solar Energy Topics
By the US Department of Energy
Environment Agency
Energy Saving Trust
British Wind Energy Association
American Wind Energy Association
US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
Geothermal Resources Council
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
Described as 'Europe's foremost eco-centre', this site comes from 'a charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds'
NEF Green Energy
A department of The National Energy Foundation, it aims to encourage sustainable and green sources of energy. Has useful information on such things as solar energy, wind energy, biomass and hydropower, and their contribution to the reduction in global warming and climate change
Department for Business Innovation and Skills
Information on renewable energy technologies, and government policies on sustainable energy supplies
British Nuclear Fuels
Comprehensive information on nuclear energy, very elegantly presented. But you'll need Flash!
Shell Renewables
With links to information under the headings Solar, Wind, Biomass and Forestry
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A Level
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FEEDING THE WORLD'S PEOPLE
A search engine such as Google yields a huge range of sources but bias of the source is a key issue. All diagrams and maps downloaded from the Internet must be acknowledged. All four units are supported by a wide range of websites from Public Institutions (FAO, UNDP, WHO), Private Companies, NGOs etc as well as websites from individuals (often with extreme views).
Health and patterns of disease: An online learning site from the Science Museum with an excellent interactive module on health.
Go to Learning Modules - Geography (where there are other modules on energy, weather, sustainability).
Farming and Countryside Education (FACE)
Farmers’ World Network Briefings (useful factsheets for Feeding the World’s People)
IIED
3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H 0DD, has a very wide selection of development/food/health resources.
UNEP online bookshop
Books on food, health and development.
Zed Books and Earthscan produce many useful publications for health, development and food.
UN Food and Agricultural Organisation
Field reports from NGO
World’s hunger summaries
Whilst there are several new books on Agriculture and Food the most significant new resource is the very emotive ‘Guardian Food Supplement’ 10, 17 & 24 May 2003 website
It is full of good quotations and hot issues.
(GM) Ag BioTech Info Net
Hnger Site
Consultative group on International Agricultural Research
DFID
Sustainable farming
Friends of Earth
International food policy research institute
Monsanto-GM food TNC
Soil Association(organic farming)
Our people Our resources
Three social philosophers; Malthus, Marx and Boserup
UK Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF)
US Dept of Agriculture (USDA)
UN Food & Agriculture Organisation
UN World Food Programme
World Hunger Programme
World Resource Institute Feeding the World
Worldwatch
World Wildlife Fund for Nature(farming methods debate)
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation - MSSRF quite damming of western analysis of food poverty. A local non-governmental organization in Chennai, with funding and technical assistance from the Government of India and international agencies including FAO, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Google biovillage and some case studies come up (organic but GM?) -raising rural income
HEALTH AND WELFARE
British Medical Association
Centres for Disease Control US
Centre for International Health
Health Action Zones in UK
National Health UK
Staffordshire Learning Net (Health Action Zone project on North Staffordshire available June 2001)
UNDP
[url=http://www.unicef.org]UNICEF(states of worlds children)
Welfare State
World Bank (studies on health, nutrition and poverty)
World Health Organisation
UN AIDS report is an annual update of key issues from the outstanding website
Guardian
BBC (click on news then health)
Malaria
Malaria
There are also certain private websites for health professionals with Health Trust Data and Disease Statistics
SPORT AND LEISURE
Committed to Green (shows how development of sport can help the Environment)
Sports Action Zones (SAZ) Many councils are now bidding for funding as part of their regeneration programmes
Countryside Agency
Lake District
Yorkshire Dales
Financial Times
World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry
Sydney Olympics
Olympic Movement
M2002
Dissertation - “To what extent has the Commonwealth Games Accelerated the Physical, Social and Economic Regeneration of East Manchester?”
Olympics
Sydney Olympic Games
Sydney(Green games Watch)
Athens Olympic Games
Athens (environment)
London 2012 bid site (Lower Lea Valley)
RU
Sports articles (see China)
Geoweb section and then Sporting Planet for some sports resources,
Economic impacts of sport
UN environmental impacts and sport
Info Please
US National Parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone etc.)
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite National Park
US National Parks
DEVELOPMENT AND DISPARITY
Action Aid
Africa Online
(Dfid site) Developments
Development Centre Birmingham
Dev Ed (Details of centres)
India
Institute for Environment & Development IIedOne World
Oxfam
UK Regional trends
United Nations Development Programme
Charitynet
Cafod
Christian-aid
Oxfam
OnTheLine
Wateraid
IIED
WWF
Virtual library on International Development
World Health Organisation
World Bank
Global-Issues
TWNAfrica
Two Watch
Development Gap
Globalissues
USaid
Fairtrade
Muslim women
Oxfam (now publishers field reports from NGO)
Human Development Reports
United Nations Development Programme
Millennium Development goals
World Bank
HIPC debt initiative
International Monetary Fund
World Economic Outlook
ADB.org (Asian Development Bank website)
Data and Statistics source
Africa development indicators
BBC NEWS
ECA(Economic Commission for Africa)
The Economist
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G8 and World Poverty
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ActionAid
Free downloads suitable for 5 to 19 year old children and young people including topic packs, images, video clips and briefings on topics such as aid, trade and debt. The site also contains information about resources for sale and teacher visits.
Book Aid International
Kid Zone has great MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY resources for Primary and Lower Secondary. Discover 'Reading Tents' and other global citizenship activities for your class. Download the resource poster on overseas development and test your Africa knowledge online. It also contains information about how children live around the world and compares their experiences of education.
CAFOD
CAFOD has a wide range of free, online and priced resources to support teachers at Key Stages 1-4 and beyond, including free substantial primary and secondary MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY resource packs.
Christian Aid
Christian Aid's website, Learnzone, provides a wide range of free, online and priced resources to support teachers and youth leaders who want to introduce global issues, including trade and the importance of education in the classroom or youth group.
Or why not visit www.globalgang.org, Christian Aid's website for children aged 8-12, which provides stories and articles that help children to understand what the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign is asking for.
Damaris Trust
A special selection of lesson plans and assembly outlines for Religious Education and Citizenship related to the G8 conference. These lesson plans are available free between 27 June and 8 July, to help you teach about the G8 and Make Poverty History. Many of the lesson plans include a Christian perspective. They have been produced for the Damaris Trust by RE Lessons Online, Assembling Citizenship and RE Today.
Global Dimension
Global Dimension is a unique website for teachers, bringing together the best in global dimension publishing. The site has a searchable database of hundreds of resources, many of which are free. You can search by cost, subject area and key stage, or find resources on particular countries or themes, such as trade, aid and debt.
Global Student Forum 2005
This is a National Sixth Form Conference on debt, trade and aid - on Monday 4th July in
Westminster, London. Sixth formers who attend will be equipped to return to their school as peer educators. The Global Student Forum exists to help 16 to 19 year old school students, of all faiths and none, to think carefully about the spiritual and moral issues underlying global citizenship.
Oxfam
Oxfam's web site for teachers and young people is full of free online resources for teaching about trade, aid, debt and other development issues, as well as fact-sheets containing simple explanations of the issues behind the campaign. The children's site has information for young people about MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY, and how they can get involved.
Plan International
Plan is an international humanitarian organisation helping children to realise their full potential. Plan works with children, their families and communities to build a world where children are safe, healthy and capable of realising their full potential.
President for A Day
An educational computer game (and conference called The President for a Day Experience) that enables students to understand why so many countries find themselves in debt - and to consider what can be done about it. Geared for Citizenship and RE lessons, it can be completed in one lesson or used as the basis for a larger project considering the "debt" element of the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign.
Save the Children
Save the Children's new activity file gives ideas for learning about the causes of poverty, and how it affects millions of children around the world. The downloadable file offers learning ideas, timeline sheets, an introduction to Save the Children's campaign and a follow-up activity for pupils to make giant timelines leading up to the G8 Summit in Scotland in July.
Send My Friend to School
Focus on why 100 million children around the world are currently denied an education. Use the lesson plans to get your class thinking about the right to education. You may also want to join in the Send My Friend to School challenge and work with your class to make 'buddies' (representing children missing an education) to be sent to G8 leaders in July.
For details of Send My Friend activities in Northern Ireland please email s.murray@savethechildren.org.uk
Tearfund
Lift the Label is Tearfund's ethical lifestyle campaign which helps young people connect the issues at the heart of Make Poverty History to their everyday consumer choices. From food to fashion to finance, our consumer choices have the power to change the lives of millions of people in some of the poorest countries around the world. Tearfund's resources will help young people identify the connections between their daily decisions and the poor as well as equipping them to challenge unjust trade on the high street and in the supermarket. Contact us online or by phone for free magazines, campaigning tools, session plans for youth leaders and teachers, DVDs and videos.
VSO
VSO's current education campaign, Valuing Teachers, aims to improve the situation of teachers in developing countries, through campaigning for increased opportunities for teachers to participate in decision-making about education.
Water Aid
Visit WaterAid's website and find out about the call for more and better aid and how WaterAid provides some of the poorest communities in the world a lasting supply of safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. Educators can make use of lesson plans, on-line games, videos and information on how to book a speaker and order additional educational resources.
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Unit 4 Geographical Research Option 5 - Pollution and Human health at Risk.
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⢠National Geographic is a rich source of videos, quizzes on all Options look under environment + culture sections or search engine for glacier, health, tourism, famine etc
⢠Ready made powerpoints
⢠Newspapers - cuttings eg Independent, Times, Guardian
⢠Geofiles & Geofact sheets
⢠BBC web site
⢠UN website
⢠Online encyclopedias
⢠Selected U- Tube a/v
⢠Textbooks- supporting this specification
⢠+ legacy specifications on specialist options
Specialist web sites for various options - see reference suggestions in specific options
Enquiry 1: What are health risks
WHO - main website for all this option, especially Topics list
The Global Burden of Disease Project of WHO
WHO 2008 report 10 highlights in health statistics
Local pattern eg Bristol NHS website on public health
Gapminder
World Bank
National geographic video on Emergent virus: W Nile Fever
Enquiry 2: Complex causes of health risk
Science MuseumMaking of the Modern World section on health geography,
Wilkinson model
Science Daily article 2007 statistics
WHO on emerget/remergent diseases
2008 Guardian podcast on health inequalities qualities in UK, and the link with deprivation
Enquiry 3: Pollution and health risk
Greenfacts, NGO differentiated resources
UNEP on the 6 most important air pollutants
Worldwatch Institute on China
US reputable NGO Blacksmith Institute: hotspots
UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
U Tube eg on China, coalfield grime belt , Beijing air pollution, water pollution
BBC pollution links + Planet u under Pressure
DEFRA
UK Environment Agency pollution postcode search :
Pollution Global warming:Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore - publicity summary 2006 on utube.
World Health Day 2008 focus on climate change and health
Water pollution links
Water pollution guide and links
US Environmental Protection Agency
UN Environment programme
Enquiry 4: Managing health risks
WHO report on disparities in health risk China
New Scientist Oct 2008 China health system
World bank on MDGs Goal 6 Malaria, Aids extension: 2008 Global Monitoring Report detailed resource data base from
WHO strategies to reduce health risk data base from
WHO, create own data base from graphs, comparisons between countries:
Association of Public Health Observatories - see link to A profile of the Nations Health for every English local authority area :
Gates Foundation
BBC Panorama 2009 on USA health risks management issues
Oxfam’s health policies
BBC Panorama 2009 on USA health risks management issues
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Geography of Disease - Upper 4
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General Sites
Department for International Development: http://www.dfid.gov.uk
Fairtrade Foundation, http://www.fairtrade.org.uk
War on want, http://www.waronwant.org
World Development Movement, http://www.wdm.org.uk
World Trade Organisation, http://www.wto.org
Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov
Health Protection Agency, http://www.hpa.org.uk
Medecins Sans Frontieres, http://www.msf.org
National Institutes of Health, http://www.nih.gov
Oxfam, http://www.oxfam.org.uk
Panos Institute, http://www.panos.org.uk
World Health Organisation, http://www.who.org
HIV/AIDS
AEGIS, http://www.aegis.com
Aids Care, Education and Training (ACET), http://www.acet-international.com
AIDS.ORG, http://www.immunet.org
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, http://www.globalfundatm.org
Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, http://www.gnpplus.net
International AIDS charity, http://www.avert.org
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, http://www.aidsalliance.org
NAM Publications, http://www.aidsmap.com
Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAID), http://www.unaids.org
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), http://www.unfpa.org
World Health Organisation (WHO), http://www.who.int
Water
Friends of the Earth, http://www.foe.co.uk and http://www.foei.org
Global Action Plan, http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), http://www.ifpri.org
The New Internationalist, http://www.newint.org
People and the Planet, http://www.www.peopleandplanet.net
Tearfund, http://www.tearfund.org
Unicef, http://www.unicef.org.uk
WaterAid, http://www.wateraid.org
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