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Simple and very effective site with interactives that test students knowledge of simple, developing and advanced knowledge of physical and political boundaries and entities. Works brilliantly on IWBs. You may need to use photon on iPads due to flash issues with Safari. 

Here you'll find animations, Flash interactives, audio-on-demand, collection highlights and (in time) selected video clips. Units of Work are also available.

Cape treasures is a collection of animations/group stories by children from four communities in Cape York

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law.

This app for both Android and Apple has potential as a virtual field trip of the Grampians. Free. 

A fabulous app that will only work if you actually move the iPad around physically. Could be a great starter for primary school or lower secondary students. 

Journalists, teachers, bloggers and storytellers (to name a few) use Map Tales to chronicle news events, scrapbook holidays, describe walks, plan campaigns, illustrate literature, recount journeys, and bring events to life.

Love this, I think this might be useful for my yr 9 students. They are tracking the production, of a product from the thought to the shelf in a globalisation unit and plotting the locations onto Google Maps at the moment. I think this could be used for the same purpose. I like giving options to the students.

Create Maps using the latest statistics within broad areas - eg Agriculture & Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness, Economic Policy & External Debt, Education, Energy & Mining, Environment, Financial Sector, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Labor & Social Protection, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science & Technology, Urban Development

Human interaction with endangered species isn't always a death sentence for the animals. With careful coaxing and vigilance, some species have been brought back from the edge of extinction to thrive once again. KNOWN LOCALLY AS 'AL MAHA', the Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx) is a regal-looking beast that features in Arabic poetry and paintings.

There are more than 300,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan, 73,000 of them in the Zaatari camp. Photographs showing significant growth over a short time period.

Browse the timeline of war and conflict across the globe.

Population Statistics for Countries, Administrative Areas, Cities and Agglomerations - Interactive Maps - Charts

Mick Law's site - has links to many free interactive resources

This module looks at country-specific data and interactive maps and graphs to achieve an appreciation for the diversity of the countries that make up 'Asia'. Students will use a variety of online data display software to investigate and present information about Asian countries. Key focus questions: Where is 'Asia' and what is it like?

You can search by country or business to find the top sites/searches visited via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Google

What is food security? Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle. CASE STUDIES

Extremely useful website (and Android and iPad app) that is real-time flight tracking. Click on any yellow plane to pull up a side menu that gives you flight data (altitude, latitude, longitude, vertical speed, etc.). Click on 3D and it will bring up a cockpit view (you must have Google Earth installled to access this feature). 

Step-by-step creation tool for GPS Mission. Use GPS mission to create a mission for students (can be used on phones or tablets) with instructions, clues and maps. Also useful for creating history walks with photographs of before and after shots of locations (you need to sign up to upload photographs). 

Commercial site that allows you to create maps using layers. The tutorial is essential to learning how to use the site and understanding which pricing plan may be suitable should your school choose to use this.