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Geography

• My Wonderful World for Educators
  You're on the front line in the fight to bridge our kids' geography gap. Here are some tools to give you much more than a fighting chance. Get started with the 10 tips below, then download your Action Kit and check out More to Explore for links to great classroom aids.

  http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/educators_welcome.html

• National Geographic Map Machine
  Locate nearly any place on Earth, find country facts, and search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas.

  http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

• Geography Education
  The National Geographic Society’s Geography Education Program works with educators all over the country to produce lessons, units, and activities designed to bring good geography into the classroom.

  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas.html

• The Lesson Plan Library
  The Lesson Plan Library offers geography lesson plans for students in kindergarten through high school.

  http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/geog.html

• Education World® Geography Center
  Features a comprehensive variety of resources that will challenge students to learn about geography.

  http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/geography/index.shtml

• USGS Education: Our Changing Planet: Geography Lessons
  Contains lesson plans and educational resources of the US Geological Survey serving primary and secondary education (K-12).

  http://education.usgs.gov/common/lessons/index.html

• National Atlas
  This Federal source is a new portrayal of America in maps and geographic information. Using new technologies, they honor traditions of accuracy, reliability, and innovation.

  http://www.nationalatlas.gov

• States Web Games
  Learn, and take quizzes on, the locations, capitals, abbreviations, and over 500 important facts about the 50 states of the USA.

  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

• USGS: Geography
  Observing the Earth with remote sensing satellites, USGS geographers monitor and analyze changes on the land, study connections between people and the land, and provide society with relevant science information to inform public decisions.

  http://geography.usgs.gov/

• Association of American Geographers - Places OnLine
  Provides access to the World's very best place-based Web sites.

  http://www.placesonline.org/

• Maps & Geography Online Maps, Games, Information (National Geographic)

  Offers search for maps, reference, globes, and atlases, TOPO software, custom maps by mail, trails illustrated, MapMachine, and country profiles.

  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/

• The Geography Site: Ideal for teachers, students, schools, homework and fun
  A comprehensive site for anyone exploring Geography, with online lessons, revision sheets, and hundreds of pages of useful, easy to read information about the geography topics you cover at school.

  http://www.geography-site.co.uk/

• US Geography @ Awesome Clipart for Educators
  Features clipart, coloring pages, backgrounds, fonts, icons and lines.

  http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/cat.cfm?cat=US%20Geography&sec=General

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