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Geography 2


GREAT FOR STUDENTS

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

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

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states - Color Landforms Atlas of the United States

http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Schools/Jefferson/Maps&Globes/MapsGlobesFrame.html - Map And Globes

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

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

ATLASES AND GAZETTEERS

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.altapedia.com - Altapedia Online

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

DESTINATIONS
http://www.supersurf.com/main.htm - World Surfari

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

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

http://www.mobot.org/MBGnet/index2.htm - What’s It Like Where You Live

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

THE VIEW FROM ABOVE

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

ON THE MOVE

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml - The Hydrologic Cycle

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

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

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/menuelem.htm - Elementary Planet

http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html - Earth Alert

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

http://www.mapquest.com - mapQuest

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://www.sciam.com/askexpert - Scientific American: Ask the Experts

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

KEYPALS

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

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

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

http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/education/WeNET/key/khome.html - WeNet KeyPals Page

PROJECTS TO JOIN

http://www.internet-catalyst.org/projects/PCG/postcard.html - Postcard Geography

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

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

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

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

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

PLATE TECTONICS

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

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

DATA STATISTICS

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/globo/glotrend - Global Trends

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://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html - Time Service Department: U.S. Naval Observatory

SOCIAL STUDIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.brigadoon.com/~owlmouse/megamaps.htm - Mega Maps

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.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson071.shtml - Five Times Five: Five Activities for Teaching Geography’s Five Themes

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

http://www.geosys.com/cgi-bin/genobject/mapskills/tigdd27 - map Skills

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/geog.html - Helping Your Child Learn Geography

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

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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