- Geography -
Fun geography game from Discovery School.com
Learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Free interactive maps to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments.
Test your knowledge of geography and remote sensing by playing Geography From Space! Brush up on your geography skills by playing these quizzes.
Everything geography.
"A challenging game for children in grades 4 and above. The game questions are organized according to the National Geographic Standards. We designed the game to help children think geographically and to help them build a global context for the information they learn."
Learn about maps and geographic data from the EPA website.
Cornell University's interactive mapping and geoscience data analysis home page. "To provide direct access to our digital data sets, we have developed this web-based application tool. "
Interactive map game
"The Atlas includes easy-to use online interactive maps. You can use your favorite Web browser to display, print, and query custom-made maps. These maps include links to related sites on the Internet for more up-to-date, real-time, and regional data information. The new Atlas also includes dynamic multimedia maps designed to animate and illustrate our changing Nation. Finally, the National Atlas includes both documentation for the each map layer and articles that describe why the data were collected and how they have been used."
National
Geographic & National
Geographic Kids
"Use our index to find more than 100 educational adventures on everything
from pirate ships to prairie dogs."
"You may create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser."
"The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.."
Interactive geography games
"The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted to the project website."
"The teaching poster and map packet pages with four accompanying lessons is appropriate for upper elementary and junior high school classes. The purpose of this teaching package is to help students understand and use maps. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided this package as a service to educators so that more Americans will learn to understand the world of information on maps. Everything in this package teaches and reinforces geographic skills that are required in your curriculum."
ATLAPEDIA
ONLINE
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well
as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
COLOR
LANDFORM ATLAS OF THE U.S.
Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information
about the state. There are two main types of links on each state page: maps
and images local to this site, and links to external web sites.
Odyssey
"Through The Odyssey website, your students can follow along with a Team
of educators doing a real two-year trek around the world. Your students will
join the Team for six weeks in each of 11 major non-Western countries to learn
about diverse cultures, critical global issues, and ways that they can help
create positive change in the world."
iEARN
(the International Education and Resource Network)
A non-profit organization made up of almost 4,000 schools in over 90 countries,
that empowers teachers and young people (K-12) to work together online at
very low cost through a global telecommunications network. Since 1988, iEARN
has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful
educational projects--with peers around the corner and throughout the world.
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