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Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project. Our list is a grab-bag of ideas - from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts - and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.

Geoconferencing marries two well-known concepts: video conferencing and geocaching-an outdoor scavenger hunt in which students use GPS devices and mobile devices to travel to specific coordinates in order to locate hidden items known as travel bugs. Travel bugs have unique codes that owners and participants can use to track a bug's movement on geocaching.com.

This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

Bougor - this reminded me of that box you guys always do at the start of the year... 

There are some good macro and microeconomics and social science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free. Great population simulations.

This is the first in a series of articles from guest writer Stephen Berer focusing on literacies, fluencies, and projects for museums and classrooms. The following series of articles will discuss how to successfully use museums as multimedia classrooms, and how to bring the best of the museum experience back into your classroom.