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ationalatlas.gov™ contains a remarkable range of products and services to meet the diverse needs of people who are looking for maps and geographic information about America. Dynamic maps are innovative illustrations of geographic phenomena. We combine the science of mapping with today's multimedia to offer maps that are useful, understandable, and that stimulate interactivity.

A easy to use, versatile mapping tool. Students can annotate and draw on the maps. Great with an interactive whiteboard. Because this site uses Google Maps you can not only use a map of Earth, but the Moon, Mars and the sky too. Great for Sci-Fi creative writing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE,+RE,+Citizenship,+Geography+&+Environmental

Excellent collection of animated and interactive maps about the history of the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa.

PBS is using HistoryPin to compliment their Abolitionists series. Explore the story of the abolitionist movement in America through our interactive map. Dozens of museums, institutions and PBS stations have partnered with American Experience to bring you archival images, documents and videos related to abolitionism.

This real-time 3D simulation illustrates how topographic maps are created and used to depict changes in elevation. A topographic map is characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief using contour lines. Rendered in real-time 3D, it is easy to understand how topographic maps are created since the simulation shows the same virtual environment in both a 3D mesh and 2D map format.

Create compelling maps that make a difference GeoCommons enables everyone to find, use and share geographic data and maps. Easily create rich interactive visualizations to solve problems without any experience using traditional mapping tools.

Awesome interactive geography mapping tool

What a valuable site! Thank you.

Interactive mapping website that takes demographic, economic, environmental, and political data sets and creates maps based on those data. Size of each country changes based on the particular data. Downloadable and embeddable.

A visual way of looking at statistics

Great new mapping tool from National Goegraphic. It's in BETA, but already very good tool. 

Customize maps and download, share by email, print, share through url or social media.

A useful interactive history map of Europe. Watch as boarder move as nations rise and fall. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

Very nice interactive illustrating things like sea surface temperatures, tectonic plates, human populations - for any part of the world (I'm from Australia and it even had us covered!)

Climate Commons is a map-based interactive platform that contains layers of news and information on climate change in the US. It is designed to provide academics, policymakers, journalists, and the general public with the latest data and stories on the causes and impacts of, and responses to climate change across the country. The map combines the most recently available data on climate change indicators, such as temperature, precipitation, and emissions, with the latest, geo-tagged stories on climate change in the United States.

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Why bubbl.us Works & Tips for Use

Africa Asia and Europe to the year 1000 with interactive maps and map animation.

Great interactive map of inbound/outbound migration by county.

From the website: "Welcome to the Visual Thesaurus, an interactive tool that allows you to discover the connections between words in a visually captivating display. Word maps let you search for just the right word and then explore related concepts, revealing the way words and meanings relate to each other. It's a word-lover's delight, with more than 145,000 words and 115,000 meanings organized in an innovative and intuitive design." However, it costs $3/month and $20/year to subscribe.

Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.

Interactive Map and Table of the Navajo Nation

Very well done interactive lesson on map skills of hemispheres, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, prime meridian, and equator. Also has built in questions to check understanding