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Breathing Earth - Real Time CO2 Emissions Simulation
The Breathing Earth is a Flash visualization of world population growth, births, deaths and carbon emissions. A great starting point for discussions with kids about the climate change.
Read more... (10/16/2009)
http://www.breathingearth.net/

Playinghistory.org - History Games, Interactives And Simulations
Playing History is a website that catalogs and rates the best free online history games and simulations. Browse through subjects such as American history, British history, ancient history or World War II.
Read more... (10/16/2009)
http://playinghistory.org

StatPlanet - Interactive Data Visualization through Maps and Graphs
Statplanet is a free data visualization tool that lets you discover facts about world development using colored maps and graphs.
Read more... (11/03/2008)
http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/

benfranklin300.org - View A Benjamin Franklin Timeline
The website benfranklin300.org was created to celebrate the 300th-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth (1706-2006). It includes a great interactive historical timeline where you can learn about the life of Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers.
Read more... (05/15/2008)
http://www.benfranklin300.org/timeline/

Nobelprize.org - Educational Games and Simulations
The nobelprize.org website hosts a large collection of high quality educational Flash games, on subjects related to the Nobel Prize. The productions are aimed at young people, who may know about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates, but often lack a deeper understanding about the Nobel Prize-awarded works.
Read more... (02/01/2008)
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/

Purposegames.com - Create Image Quizzes
Purposegames is a website with serveral very good geography games, where you can learn about countries, capitals, mountains and rivers all over the world. This site is also very much a web 2.0-site, since users can add their own image quizzes to the site.
Read more... (08/28/2007)
http://www.purposegames.com

Geosense - Online Geography Competition
Geosense is a one or two player geography based game. Compete against another online opponent to place a city on a world map as quickly and accurately as you can.
Read more... (12/05/2006)
http://www.geosense.net/

Gapminder - Visualize World Development
Gapminder enables you to make sense of the world by having fun with animated diagrams that displays world development over the last 40 years. Analyze income, military budgets, Internet users per 1000 people and many more parameters.
Read more... (08/28/2006)
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

www.kbears.com - Free Interactive Online World
In the huge, free, aminated interactive online world of Knowledge Bears you can explore countries around the world, learn about animals and dinosaurs, learn about the greenhouse effect and much more!
Read more... (02/16/2006)
http://www.kbears.com

www.sheppardsoftware.com - Free Online Geography Exercises
Have fun learning the countries, capitals, and geography around the world with these free online exercises and games. Exercises for all parts of the world are available: Europe, Asia, Oceania, USA etc. Written in Flash and runs in full-screen mode.
Read more... (11/23/2005)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

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