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The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including Stonehenge, the archaeological areas of Pompeii and the ancient Kyoto temples. In addition to man-made sites, you can explore natural places: wander the sandy dunes of Australia’s Shark Bay or gaze up at the rock domes of Yosemite National Park in California, Lots of positive buzz on the internet about this new site!

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GE Teach is built around the Google Earth browser plug-in. The purpose of the site is to help teachers develop lessons in which students explore spatial distributions.

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World Map is designed to enable creation, visualization, and exploration of geographically referenced information.

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"Online games and simulations for use in the geography classroom."

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Historic Map Works is an interesting site that shows a giant collection of historical maps through Google Maps. These maps can be searched by continent, states, and other various criteria.

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Discovery's new interactive atlas is a great resource for teaching about geography, countries, and cultures. Select a country by clicking on it or selecting it from the drop down box. The atlas has the feel of Google Earth as you fly to the location and zoom in. Once the country is located, the user can choose to learn about that country's culture, government, history, and natural world. Clicking on these categories will open various streaming videos that explain or show facts about the country.

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Geocube is an attractive online resource about Geography. Geocube is based on the principle of the Rubik Cube with six faces and 54 topics.

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Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started.

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Terrific image and data collection showing how the world lives.

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A helpful interactive map displaying more than one hundred examples of environmental change around the world.

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Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time.

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A Weblog About Maps

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Partnership for 21st (P21) Century Skills ICT Literacy Maps are the result of a partnership between P21 and the national content groups to illustrate the intersection between 21st century tools and 21st century skills. They include Math, Geography, Science and English, with a Social Studies ICT Map in progress.

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Historypin is one in a series of projects created as part of We Are What We Do's campaign to get generations talking more, sharing more and coming together more often.

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