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Free thematic Nat Geo maps from Google

History-Map Timelines: TimeMaps TimeMaps creates beautiful interactive history-map timelines: TimeMaps. They're either: Animated, Interactive TimeMaps for classroom presentation or as study guides.The FREE TimeMap of World History, which is an award winning website that shows the bigger picture of world history

Matt Esterman 19 Aug 11 01:03:29 Great animated map of some key stages of Japanese expansion from 1910-1942

Grid references and map symbols

World War II map of Europe, 1945 with country names left out.

This is a great app for idea mapping, one of the easiest to use around.

"Locating London's Past is a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital's past, revolutionising our understanding of London's history. The website is the first to map information from a vast array of sources, covering: crime and punishment the distribution of wealth, poverty and occupations the ownership of consumer goods mortality "

origins of nations and ethnonations interactive map

"Excellent for armchair geographers and student researchers. Each map has a concise and informative historical background on the left side of the screen. Images are downloadable and printable for non-commercial use (check here for details). Highlights include works by Alexander Von Humboldt, and a collection of old globes."

map skills revision and test

Visit historic and architecturally significant landmarks in Italy. You can now explore inside the Colosseum, see ancient wellness centers, and walk along the Appian Way. "

MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history.

global warming activity using maps 

Martin Burrett 01 Jan 12 02:04:01 A wonderful site for seeing information layered over a map. Includes temperature data, habitats, volcanoes location and natural resources.

Martin Burrett 17 Nov 11 02:16:31 A map based site showing statistics and data from all over the world. See literacy rates, life expectancy, farming data and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

Watch the map as the world's forests are depleted!

"Welcome to Civil War Animated If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the US Civil War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."

Martin Burrett 19 Aug 11 10:52:45 A beautifully made geography and science flash resource from Oxfam about the Earth. Look at the land and seas on the surface and travel down into the core of our planet.