Miscellaneous
- Deeper Discovery Use this website to find out about the earth’s history
- BBC Bitesize – N4 Geography
- BBC Bitesize – N5 Geography
- BBC Bitesize – Higher Geography
- Shetland In Statistics
Aid Agencies
- Christian Aid
Home page of the Christian Aid charity - OneWorldOnline
Human Rights, Sustainable Development and the Environment. A complex site which allows searches for material on a development theme. Look at its help page first. - Oxfam
OXFAM Great Britain charity - Save the Children
Home page of Save the Children (International) - UNICEF
UK Home page of UNICEF – the United Nations’ Children’s Fund - World Vision
World Vision – one of the world’s leading aid agencies
Climate Change
- Scientific American
Hot Planet – Cold Comfort – “Little Ice Age” - TeachersParadise
Find out more about the “Little Ice Age” - What causes the greenhouse effect?
To see the animation about the greenhouse effect
- Nationmaster – People Statistics > Total Population (most recent) by country
- Nationmaster – Environment Statistics > CO2 Emissions (most recent) by country
Favelas
for notes:
- www.bennett.karoo.net
Urbanisation
for Notes and Pictures:
- www.clausbantel.de
Claus Bantel – Favelas - www.cnn.com
A century of poverty in Rio’s ‘favelas’
for Pictures:
- www.fmpsd.ab.ca
Photo Favelas - www.korubo.com
FAVELAS – living communities of poor people
Maps
- multiMap
Search, zoom in and zoom out of maps. Aerial photographs, most of England covered. - National Geographic Map Machine
Access a variety of world/regional political/geographical maps. - TerraServer
Satellite images of many locations worldwide
