GapMinder

What is GapMinder?
Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics. Fun with statistics? It is true, have a look!
Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations.
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Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder. Google Subscribed Links makes it possible to search deep into Gapminder's moving graphs visualizing world development. Spring 2006.
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Popular Geology and Education

The Education section of this website has excellent geology resources developed with schools in mind. There are links top other educational sites and topics covered on the site inlcude, mapping, volcanoes, geological timelines, fossils, earthquakes and lots more. Click on the BGS icon to go to the site. Well worth a visit.....

GIS - Geographical Information Systems

The Ordnance Survey MAP Zone website includes an excellent resource called GIS Zone. It provides modelling and simulation software to teach pupils about Geographical Information Systems(GIS).
There are excellent downloadable teacher resources for exploring GIS systems in the classroom. Topics include; flood damage control, wind power location, crime prevention and farm management. The site provides opportunities to teach pupils about the benefits of digital map and satellite imagery modelling to make decisions and solve problems and provides a context for using ICT in the wider curriculum.

Climate Change Experiment

Take part in the biggest climate experiment ever undertaken. Just click here to download the software

The experiment works by making use of your spare processing power. All you have to do is use your computer exactly as you normally would, and the programme will run calculations in the background. When it’s done, it will send results back to scientists in Oxford, who will combine everyone’s results. The more people who take part, the more complete their predictions about the future climate will be.

Interested? Visit the FAQ section to finds out more.