Geography Links
A Tapestry of Time and Terrain
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/
The Union of two maps - geology and topography.
Africa
http://www.pbs.org/africa
Explore Africa - 54 countries; over 1,000 languages; 797 million people.
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
This online collection contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The database will eventually contain digital representations of more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries.
Antarctica: Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/index.html
Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole. The Exploratorium invites you to follow our crew as they visit the dry valleys and hike up the slopes of volcanic Mt. Erebus.
Canada´s Digital Collections
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/
Welcome to Canada´s Digital Collections, home to hundreds of Web sites about Canada produced by thousands of young Canadians.
Five Activities for Teaching Geography´s Five Themes
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson071.shtml
Looking for activities to teach the five themes of geography? We´ve got them for you -- 25 of them!
Geography Lesson Plans and Activities
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas.html
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.
Geography Network
http://www.geographynetwork.com/
Access a world of information.
Internet Geography
http://www.internetgeography.co.uk/
Where geography is going places!
Kenyaweb
http://www.kenyaweb.com/index.php
Contains Kenya History, Government, Emergency Services, Kenyan People, Regions, Politics, and Economy.
Lebanon/Al Mashriq
http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/index.html
Interactive map with information and pictures from Lebanon.
Mappy
http://www.mappy.com/
Your road and travel guide. Route planner in Europe and France, maps of paris London and other big cities, access maps, tourist and practical information.
Periodical Historial Atlas of Europe
http://www.euratlas.com
Online historical atlas showing political status of Europe and Mediterranean basin at each century from 1 to 2000.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/
Offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources.
Portals to the World from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world.
Vietnam, A Children´s Guide
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/vietnam/vietnam.htm
Our second grade class has been reading about Vietnam. We have done a great deal of research about this beautiful country on the other side of the world. We read "Angel Child, Dragon Child" by Michele Maria Surat and it made us want to learn more. We learned about schools in Vietnam. We created a picture book about Vietnam. Take our quiz and see how much you know about Vietnam!
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