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Useful Websites

Weather and Climate
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/This site includes similar data to the Met Officde website as well as online articles about weather.
www.bbc.co.uk/england/webcamsBBC Online England webcams
www.the-times.co.uk/The Times newspaper online includes a weather page
www.sfgate.com/weather/San Francisco Chronicle Weather Page
www.cnn.com/WEATHER/CNN News World Weather Information
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.htmlThis website has developed a gallery of images of different cloud types. The site also explains classification.
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/floodEnvironment Agency website
http://drik.net/A picture agency in the unlikely location of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh named Drik, word for vision. This website includes a wide range of articles about world poverty focussed on Bangladesh. There is an impressive array of digital images. The site includes collections of flooding in Bangladesh in 1998 and 2000.
Settlement
How do settlements change with time? 
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/Click on the link to Ordnance Survey's website, after you have read the following instructions for online activity.
1. Once on the OS website select Get-a-map.
2. Enter the name of a local village near your school into the search box.
3. Select 1:50 000 scale map of the village and export the map into a DTP file.
4. Click on the link to Historical maps, this will download a 19th century map of the village.
5. Compare the two maps of your local village. List at least 10 differences between the village in the 19th century and the village today. You could label these differences onto the maps.
www.homes-on-line.com/Provides estate agent details for homes all over the country.
Create a DTP poster showing land use zones for a town or city. 
http://UK2.multimap.comYou can downland OS maps and aerial photographs from this site.
www.connells.co.ukYou can use this site to obtain property details as well as maps and neighbourhood data and surrounding area.
http://www.your-move.co.uk./html.default.htmWhere you can find details of houses often linked to a map to show their location within an area.
Where do we shop?
www.meadowhall.co.uk/Meadowhall near Sheffield
www.themetrocentre.co.uk/Metro Centre near Gateshead
www.merryhill.co.uk/Merry Hill, West Midlands
www.bluewater.co.uk/Blue Water near Dartford
http://www.brentcross.co.uk/Brent Cross, London
www.cribbs-causeway.co.uk/Bribbs Causeway near Bristol
www.lakeside.uk.com/Lakeside, Thurrock
Transport 
www.highways.gov.uk/The Highways Agency. This site includes consultancy about new road developments such as by-pass routes.
http://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/home/Detailed information about the tunnel together with development projects.
The United Kingdom 
www.statistics.gov.uk/UK National Statistics - This government website provides official statistics for the UK. The Learning Zone section of data with online activiites already provided. There is also a section about the 2001 Census.
UK Enquiry 
www.visitbritain.com/This is the official tourist website for Britain, it includes sections on attractions, as well as tours. The home page includes a virtual journey across Britain.
www.travelbritain.com/This site is an online travel guide to different locations around the country. Each section has collections of digital images of various locations.
http://multimap.com/This is a superb site for the geography teacher, and pupils love to use it. By post code into the site's search engine you can not only download maps of different scale, Ordnance Survey maps at 1:50 000, but also vertical aerial photographs of your house. A useful feature of the site is the map overlay facility. When you have downloaded an aerial view of a location click on the overlay button, a map extract will download over the top of the photograph, if you move the mouse the map tile moves, thus allowing the user to interpret the photograph with ease. This represents an excellent way to develop map skills.
There are also a number of websites where you can download digital images.
www.freefoto.com/ 
How good is your world place knowledge? 
www.triv.net/qmenu.htmA really fun site can be found here. There are over 20 geography quizzes, one of the best is the map quiz, where you identify from its shape. Each quiz is set up like the TV quiz 'Who wants to be a Millionaire', allowing 50-50 or ask the audience and so on.
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