Geography 4th/5th: General Sites

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General Sites for Geography: Fourth and Fifth
 

Interdisciplinary Sites that include specific MSPAP indicators and selected by the Maryland Department of Education:
http://www.mdk12.org/practices/support_success/mspap/exemplars/social_studies/4-5/somebody/index.html

http://www.mdk12.org/practices/support_success/mspap/exemplars/social_studies/4-5/ozone_instruction/index.html

http://www.mdk12.org/practices/support_success/mspap/exemplars/social_studies/4-5/imported/index.html

While you are trying to figure out how to teach geography, you can visit this site on geographic humor. It includes the top ten reasons to learn geography and other humor that teachers can appreciate:
http://geography.miningco.com/library/misc/blhumor.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
 

Background information about geography, a timeline of geographic history
http://geography.miningco.com/library/misc/bltimeline.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
 

The Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/gmpage.html
 

The Library of Congress also has a section on Country Studies that includes geographic exercises and information. Identify your target country and then click the country button. Geography exercises and information are on the first page about the country.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
 

Around the world in 80 clicks takes you to 80 places around the world with cameras and pictures of the actual site. Want to see Nantucket harbor, click the city and then the harbor camera and you can see the boats coming and going or traffic on the main street. A site for geography or virtual field trips
http://www.steveweb.com/80clicks/controls/TourIndex.html?1
 

A general site for searching for lesson plans and units is: http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp?section=find
 

A source of several links and games is:
http://library.advanced.org/10157/
 

National Geographic general site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
 

And the National Geographic Site for printable maps and other information:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html
 

In addition, the National Geographic Site for lesson plans and teacher resources is:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas.html
 

150 links to all types of maps:
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/geog.html#MAP/CARTOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
 

Links to many general geographic sites:
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/geog.html#GEOGRAPHY
 

A clip art site with several links to jazz up your geography lessons:
http://geography.miningco.com/msub29.htm
 

More general geography links:
http://geography.miningco.com/education/geography/
 

A thesaurus of geographic terms:
http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/
 

A general list of geographic sites:
http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/geores.html
 

A list of activities to teach the five themes of geography:
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson071.shtml
 

A list of the top ten geography lessons on the Internet for 1998:
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson090.shtml
 

An interdisciplinary unit from Encarta, combines math, social studies and geography in a unit called, Traveling Across America:
http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=281
 

An interdisciplinary lesson plan that includes geography, weather, math and the use of the Internet with hands on applications of science, math and social studies/geography:
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0086.html
 

A number of geographic sites have developed a relationship called a geographic webring. The index to member sites is:
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=geography;list
 

An interdisciplinary and Internet based activity that includes physical and human geography called The North American Quilt: A Living Geography Project (there are charges for participating in some of these online activities):
http://www.onlineclass.com/NAQ/NAQsub.html
 

There are several interactive Internet and e-mail based groups that you can join. This one uses postcards to teach about geography:
http://www.eduplace.com/projects/travel_us.html
 

If you like this one, the Project Center has additional sites that you can find
http://www.eduplace.com/hmco/school/projects/ssproj.html
 

An informational database on each state that includes geographical information
http://cube.ice.net/~edbear/USfacts.html

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