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Adventure
Online
Adventure Online allows students to participate in explorations
and voyages to Central America, Africa, and other places around the world, and
to communicate with the adventurers doing the actual traveling. Past trip
records and photographs continue to provide learning resources for the classroom
even after the adventure is over in real time.
Atlapedia
Online
Atlapedia Online contains key
information on every country of the world. Each country provides facts and data
on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, and economy, making
this site ideal for personal or familial education, and for students of all
ages.
The
CIA World Factbook 2005
Through the CIA Fact book, you can find
maps and data on the population, geography, economics, defense, and government
of the countries from A-Z. The encyclopedic profiles at this site are packed
with statistical details.
Geography
World
This site has many great geography
links… travel the world with this site.
Great
Globe Gallery
Medieval globes, ancient globes,
computer-generated globes, movies of the earth from space, and 3-D maps galore.
Iceland
General Information
You say you didn't know Santa Claus
lived in Iceland?
Lonely
Planet (Text Express)
A great way to visit other parts of the
world - go to destinations.
The
Mining Co. Guide for Geography
Anything from reading a compass and maps
to physical geography.
National Geographic Society Map Machine
The
Peters Projection: An Area Accurate Map
This reference-research site
compares the sizes of continents using their actual dimensions, and looks at how
early maps distorted these dimensions.
Virtual
Antarctica
This site takes students on a virtual
journey across Antarctica with text, photos, maps, and graphics that depict the
continent's icy environment, geographical setting, animal life, and
explorations.
The
World's Most Dangerous Places
An interview with ABC news
correspondent Robert Pelton, who has traveled on assignments to some of the
most dangerous places in the world.
Ghana
Web Page
Journey into deepest Africa.
K-12
Africa Guide
If you need to know something - anything
- about Africa, look no further than this guide. It contains a huge assortment
of educational resources, indexed to make searches a breeze.
The
University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
This site uses photographs, text, and an
organized tour of Egyptian sites by map locations to explain the structures of
ancient Egypt, such as pyramids and temples. Links are here for artifacts housed
at the University of Memphis, university information, and other links about
Egypt.
Asia
Inc.
This site includes links for Bangladesh,
Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, and the other countries in
Asia.
Asia
Pacific Information
The site has a number of great links to
information on Asia, including maps, business news, and Singapore Online and Hot
Asia, which lists Asian web sites.
Australia
If you want to learn more abut the land
down under, you can learn it all here.
Destination
Australia
Explore the richness of this continent's
"natural treasures and cultural diversity."
The
50 States of the World
Capital cities and other information links.
Canada's
Official Geographic Names Web Site
If you have questions regarding Canadian
place names, you can consult this interactive database of over 500,000
geographical names in Canada. This site provides a simple reference service that
includes basic information on location and maps that are easy to download. There
are also articles and a quiz.
Great
Lakes Information Network
This central resource provides access
and links to information about the geography, environment, economy, tourism, and
much more relating to the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada.
U.S.
Gazetteer
Look up any location in the U.S. and
access a map, plus the most current census bureau information for that site.
Zoom in or out on this map for more or less detail.
USA
City Link
The Internet's most comprehensive listing of World Wide Web pages featuring U.S.
states and cities. From Alabama to Wyoming, students will find a bounty of
information about hundreds of cities, such as geography (lots of maps and
graphics!), weather, culture, and much more.
U.S.
Census Bureau Home Page
This site contains information on
various issues such as population, housing, education, labor force, income and
poverty levels, and much more.
Bem-Vindo
Ao Brazil
This is a well-informed guide to South
America's largest country in English.
Maps
History of Maps, and globes This site tells you about globes, and maps. It also tells us how they were invented.
Gives you different types of maps from all around the world.
Updated 03/20/2007