Geography 1

GEOGRAPHY AND MAPPING: GENERAL

http://www.nationalgeographic.com - National Geographic

http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc - Online Map Creation

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps - Map machine

http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html - USGS: Geographic Names Information System

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/html/1educate.html - United States Geological Survey: Educational Resources for Cartography, Geography, and Related Disciplines

FAR OFF PLACES

http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/dest.htm - The Lonely Planet: Destinations

http://www.greatestplaces.org - The Greatest Places

http://library.advanced.org/10131/javascriptmenu_final.html - Destinations Himalayas- Where the Earth Meets the Sky

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html - Ocean Planet

ATLASES AND GAZETTERS

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html - Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm - Infonation

http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html - Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library

http://cliffie.nosc.mil/~NATLAS - Atlas of the World

http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow - Stately Knowledge

http://www.3datlas.com - 3D Atlas Online

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer

http://www.yahooligans.com/content/ka/almanac/world - Kid’s Almanac: The World

http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes U.S. State Department: Background Notes

LANDFORMS AND WATERWAYS

http://windows.ivv.nasa.gov - Windows to the Universe

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com - TerraServer

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu - Volcano World

http://www.oceanjourney.org/index_journey.html - Colorado’s Ocean Journey

http://www.nature.nps.gov/grd/tour - Park Geology Tour

http://www.rev.net/~aloe/river - River Systems of the World

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/hydrocycle/hydro1.html - The Hydrologic Cycle

http://www.glacier.rice.edu - Glacier

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS

http://library.advanced.org/10157 - Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html - Xpeditions@nationalgeographic.com

http://www.funbrain.com/where - Where Is That?

http://www.funschool.com/cgi-bin/ga?ges_usquiz,36 - Where is That U.S. State

http://www.eduplace.com/hmco/school/geo/indexhi.html - The GeoNet Game

http://www.indo.com/distance - How Far Is It?

EMAIL AN EXPERT

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/glad - Glad You Asked

http://www.askanexpert.com - Pitsco’s Ask An Expert

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html - Ask A Geologist

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/ask_a.html - Ask A Volcanologist

STUDENT GALLERIES

http://www.greatestplaces.org/yourplace/top.html - Add Your Greatest Place

KEYPALS

http://www.epals.com - ePals: Classroom Exchange

http://www.mightymedia.com/keypals - KeyPals Club

http://www.globalclassroom.org - The Global Classroom

PROJECTS TO JOIN http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern96/pt053/GEOMYstery/geomys.html - The GeoMystery Project

http://www.globalearn.org - globalearn.com

http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl.html - Global Grocery List Project

http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/journey - Journey Exchange Project

http://www.adventureonline.com - Adventure Online

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/projects.html#year - KidProj

PLATE TECTONICS

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html#anchor19309449 - This Dynamic Earth

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html - Earth

POPULATION

http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop - World Population Growth Meter

http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/uspop.html - National Population Estimates

TIME AND ASTRONOMY

http://sandbox.xerox.com/stewart/tzconvert.cgi - Timezone Converter

SOCIAL STUDIES

http://gamma.sil.org/ethnologue - Ethnologue: Languages of the World

http://fotw.digibel.be/flags - Flags of the World

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html - Rulers

BACKGROUND AND RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html - 6 Billion Human Beings

http://WWW-GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages.html - The GeoImages Project

http://www.whoi.edu - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.html - Geomorphology From Space

http://geography.state.gov/htmls/statehome.html - U.S. Department of State: Geographic Learning Site

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi - Latitude

ACTIVITES AND LESSON PLANS

http://www.nationalgeographic.com - National Geographic.com

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/html/1educate.html - USGS: Educational Resources for Cartography, Geography, and Related Disciplines

http://octopus.gma.org - Gulf of Maine Aquarium

http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/ocean/main.html - Ocean Planet: Interdisciplinary marine Science Activities

http://www.geosys.com/cgi-bin/genobject/mapskills/tigdd27 - Maps and Globes

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html - Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us - SCORE History-Social Science Resources