Geography 6th-8th: General Sites

The Library of Congress site, Country Studies, is an excellent resource for teachers seeking information about countries around the globe. "Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
 
 

The National Geographic Society is an excellent resource for pictures, maps, lessons, background information, and other resources.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
 
 

The Association of American Geographers (AAG) promotes the "theory, methods, and practice of geography."
http://www.aag.org/
 
 

National Council for Geographic Education promotes the teaching and learning of geography.
http://www.ncge.org/index.html
 
 

Pennsylvania high school teacher Brad Bowerman has developed a Web page, Geography World, that includes numerous links to geography topics and countries from around the globe.
http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html
 
 

K-12 Internet Resources for Geography Education offers numerous links to geography sites.
http://members.carol.net/josh/geoindex.html
 
 

A comprehensive site for searching the Internet for information related to geography.
http://geography.miningco.com/education/geography/
 
 

Five Times Five: Five Activities for Geography's Five Themes provides interesting ways to learn about the themes.
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson071.shtml
 
 

Electronic Resources for Geography includes numerous links to geography topics.
http://nicanor.acu.edu/~armstrongl/geography/geog.htm
 
 

Atlapedia Online is a site with access to background information, statistics and maps about countries around the world. Prominently displayed at this site is notification about copyright restrictions – read these carefully.
http://www.atlapedia.com/
 
 

Researching a Country with Encarta Multimedia is a Web site that allows access to online resources.
http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=1207
 
 

The Florida Geographic Alliance provides links to numerous geographic resources. Also contains links to blank maps that can be downloaded.
http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/fga/
 
 

McREL provides a comprehensive list of subject area resources for geography.
http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/geo.asp
 
 

The World Factbook from the CIA is a comprehensive resource researching information about the countries of the world.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

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