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National Geographic website - A guide to North America with articles, photos, facts, videos, and news from National Geographic.

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

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

Studying bioluminescence? You will want this app. Beautiful and worthy of all the awards it has received. 

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. 

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Kanyini is a story told by an Uncle Bob Randall, who lives beside the world's greatest monolith, Uluru, in Central Australia. Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people living in the bush, Bob tells the tale of why Indigenous people are now struggling in a modern world and what needs to be done from them to move forward. A tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress, this is not only a story of one man and his people but the story of the human race. Kanyini is a Ptjantjatjara word meaning interconnectedness; to care for, to support, to nurture and protect

A series of short videos about the effects on climate change on indigenous communities in a variety of geographic regions.

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Year 8 Physical Geography - Geomorphology. Cross section of Uluru and Kata Tjuta. 

Scientific Explanation of the geology of Uluru and Kata Tjuta (Year 8 Physical Geography Unit)

All locations and spots in Cairns, Queensland, Australia marked by people from around the world.

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). 

Location guessing game where students can play alone or against each other on multiple computers (no need to share the same machine) collecting points for speed and accuracy. Ignore the ad and click either "Sign In" or "Visit" to play as a guest. 

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). 

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. 

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.