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This Beta site is very interactive. You can see several thematic options, put markers on the map, print, etc.

National Geography Interactive Maps

Rand McNally launched a free online tool for students and teachers to learn more about the presidential election process. "An accompanying online teacher resource center includes lesson plans based on the Common Core Standards making it easy to integrate the games and activities into the classroom.   Features of "Play the Election" Digital Learning Game * Interactive electoral map - Breaks down the Electoral College by state, details past election results, real-time polling data, election-related headlines, and more. * Digital Mini-Games - Students can choose from eleven different mini-games that reinforce key concepts of the election, delve deeper into the issues of influential and battleground states, and tie core civics curriculum to current events. * Standards-aligned lesson plans - Professionally-created lesson plans for educators that cover key aspects of the 2012 Election, the Electoral College, and major debates. * Student Access - Each student creates their own unique profile that allows them to save and edit their own electoral map, play and track their progress through the games, and see how their answers stack up against those of others in their class or the country. * Create Your Own Games - Teachers can create their own mini-games to reinforce key concepts or to teach new, related events. "Play the Election" was created in collaboration with ImpactGames and is powered by ImpactGames' Knight News Game award winning platform."

This is a website where you can see a digital picture-history all over a world map. You can choose a time period and/or place to view, and you can add your own pictures to a place.

Audio-Visual interactive map of how America expanded from the 13 colonies

An 85 page document that is a "road map" to one state's social studies curriculum. The 7th and 8th grade sections might make a good starting point for Arizona's standards, if they could bear to change what they have now.

Teacher site with history scavenger hunts, quizzes, maps

Breaking News is a current events news-reader designed in an intriguing way. You can type in whatever topic you want to read about - soccer, major news, refugees - and you're provided with a list of headlines to stories about it. Clicking on the headlines will take you to the story. But the real interesting part of the site is that if you click on a globe icon on the upper right of the page, you'll go to a world map showing you the location of the where the stories are originating. Clicking on the dots will also take you to the story.

a geography game that lets players guess locations by viewing a google map

This is pretty fun, I would like to see how I can integrate this within the world history and I don't think that it would be too hard...

McDougal Littell web site with interesting interactive activities for history

McDougal Littell web site with interesting interactive activities for history (Middle School & High School)

A ThinkQuest site with geography games

CIA World Fact Book with users guide