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Maps That Teach: Free U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles
"Free maps and map puzzles to learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Free interactive maps and map puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments. Maps are vital to our understanding geography and the world we live in. Interactive and fun, Maps that Teach help students learn basic geography."
Free Technology for Teachers: Geographers on the Job
"Applications for Education
Geographers on the Job is full of placemarks that explain the types of work done by Geographers. This Google Earth tour is a great way for students to see the many uses of geography beyond the traditional jobs of cartography, surveying, and teaching."
iLearn Technology » Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard
a collection of resources for use with an interactive whiteboard. This is an outstanding collection of 46 math tools and games, 3 geography maps and map makers, 6 English tools and games, and two multipurpose games. The collection is visually appealing
Free Technology for Teachers: Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
"offers resources for using historical maps to teach lessons on geographic and historic themes. In total there are eighteen lessons spanning six themes. Each historical map has a lesson plans designed for use at different grade levels. The grade levels are divided K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each lesson plan comes with links to additional resources and images for enhancing and modifying the lessons to suit your needs."
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
"Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map."
Google Map Generator | 29travels | Around the World
This map generator highlights all the countries you have visited in Google Maps. Simply follow the steps below to get your personal Map. You will recieve the HTML code that you can use to embed the map on your website/blog.
http://www.50states.com/
Learning geography can be a little more interactive with this site that lists tons of facts about each of the states.
Free Technology for Teachers: Crickweb - Games for Young Learners
a good collection of simple games for young learners. On Crickweb you can find games for students to practice and learn the basics of numeracy, literacy, geography, history, and science. There is also a collection of games for used on Promethean whiteboards.
GeoNet Geography Game
a geography quiz game from Houghton Mifflin that offers students more than just the state or country identification questions typical of geography games. GeoNet has a category of games based on a world map and games based on a map of the United States. Within each category are six types of quiz game questions. Each quiz game has two levels.
Virtual Pilot! Game
the player is given the name of a destination and has to land a plane as close to it as possible.
It’s a fun little game, not unlike several other map games out there. It’s a good way to reinforce geography skills.
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