Biodiversity Hotspots...numerous resources for both students and travelers alike, including an interactive hotspot map and a species search guide so you can have a first-hand look at what is threatened where (and why). Most importantly, the site includes information on what can be done to help reverse these destructive trends.
CountryReports.org was established in 1997 out of a love for international relations and culture. Entirely web-based, we offer more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics. Our statistical data and cultural information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike.
earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr.
NEW Find Geography is a simple map game that you could have a classroom full of students playing after just a minute of instruction. Find Geography asks students "Where is country _______?" Students simply click on the map where they think that country is located. If students give a wrong answer, Find Geography shows them the correct answer.
Free Rice ... Identify countries on a map...For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to help end hunger...
Full Screen QT VR is an easy to use and beautiful website that gives you 360degree views of many international cities, tourist destinations and even panoramas on the Moon and Mars.
New GeoCommons Finder is a great place to find publicly shared data sets for use in KML files (Google Earth file format). This week GeoCommons launched GeoCommons Maker. GeoCommons Maker provides users a quick and easy way to take the datasets found in GeoCommons Finder and display those datasets on a map. Users can create multi-layered maps and customize the way those layers are displayed. Click here to see a two layer map displaying demographic data regarding single parent households in the United States.
GeoGame - Welcome to our new and revised GeoGame... and don’t miss the new Instant GeoGames.
Geography Challenge from a magazine called Mental Floss...has a series of good map games
Geography
World...Geography Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia
Geosense - an online, one-two
player geography based game. You compete alone or against an online opponent
to place a city on a world/continent map as quickly and accurately as
you can. It’s fast paced and tends to keep kids interested while
being educational. )
Grand Canyon Explorer -
Easily navigable and packed with all the information (and scenic views)
of the Grand Canyon you could want, this site shows just how good a website
set up by an enthusiast can be. Start exploring from the ten main sections
on the home page...
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms... resource for K-12 teachers and students... high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history. Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula.
NEW Learner.org offers a collection of map-based lessons and an interactive map about the United States. After completing the map-based lessons and trying the interactive map, students can test their knowledge with a short quiz. The map-based lessons include content about Native Americans, the 50 states, colonists, and westward expansion.
MetaCarta provides all of the current news stories that a Social Studies/ Current Events teacher needs along with a geographic context for each story. You could use the idea of MetaCarta to have your students create their own mashup of news stories that they read in class.
Nations Illustrated. It has over 7,000 photos from all over the world. They’re categorized by country, and they’re free to use for non-commercial purposes. One of the neat features it has is allowing any photo to easily be made into an E-Card.
NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. ... generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
New7Wonders Foundation, which is behind the New7Wonders campaigns, has the express aim of undertaking documentation and conservation works of monuments worldwide
Panorama Explorer shows you a map of the Earth with clickable marker dots showing you panoramas for the country you are interested in.
NEW Panoramas.dk is created by Hans Nyberg a commercial photographer in Denmark...Virtual reality VR panoramas from all the world. TRAVEL AMERICA VIRTUALLY
Placeopedia is a website that provides additional context for Wikipedia entries through Google Maps. Placeopedia connects Wikipedia articles with their locations. Click on any placemark on Placeopedia's map and you will be linked to a Wikipedia article about that place.
Places & Spaces...Mapping Science exhibit has been created to demonstrate the power of maps. An initial theme of this exhibit is to compare and contrast first maps of our entire planet with the first maps of all of science as we know it.
PlaceOpedia is a “mashup” of Google maps and Wikipedia articles. They have over 15,000 locations from Wikipedia on the map, and you can browse or search for a location you are interested in (and then see it in “Map”, “Satellite” or “Hybrid” view).
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1940 to 2000...access it simply by going to our maps or reports section. There you will find thousands of maps and hundreds of reports with thousands of variables.
South Pole Quest website is a great source of audio podcasts and images from the expedition. The South Pole Quest website also features some great lesson plans about Antarctica
Teaching with Google Earth ... ...There are files to tell you what Google Earth is, why bother teaching with it, and TONS more, including this page of classroom activities
Track This Now:: Track articles across the world on a map...Enter your search term and this site searches for articles about that topic from around the world, putting push pins on the global map to show you. Click the pins to see articles. EXCELLENT!
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman...This interactive Flash display is Alan Weisman’s projection of the changes the world would undergo without us on it.
Traveler IQ Challenge, a game that rewards your knowledge of great cities and tourist traps.
Xpeditions - A National Geographic web site which combines a variety of resources,
an interactive online museus, lesson plans, etc.
Yellowstone Net - covers every
corner of the original US National Park. Beautiful photographs are the
backdrop to a site explaining the park’s history and volcanic setting,
and celebrating its 250 or so hot shooting springs (geysers) and diverse
wildlife -