Site with fascinating and beautiful statistical visualizations.
"Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by:
* Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
* Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics.
All with the intention of being a "fact tank" that promotes a fact based world view."
A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.
Flash-based site lets younger students create stories using click-and-drag to choose characters, objects, settings. Characters can be animated, as well.
The Encyclopedia will be an online reference and database on all 1.8 million species currently known to science and will stay current by capturing information on newly discovered and formally described species. The Encyclopedia of Life will help all of us better understand life on our planet.