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Complete set of 11 map kits that students and teachers can use. Easy to assemble. The kits offer United States political and physical maps, world political and physical maps, maps of Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia and Oceania, polar region maps, and maps of New England.

Free Blank Outline Printable World Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World Note that some microstates consisting of a very small territory or single small island have been excluded. The following is a complete listing of the printable world maps of every country and continent available here on my site.

This site contains a huge variety of maps plus useful facts including demographics, economic data, and the history behind the subject of each map. Great tool for teachers and students.

Very cool map mashup of online newspapers from around the world. You can filter by language and help them update the map.

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

In this page, you can select the World maps that you want to download.

These maps are Tokyo centered. A different perspective from the one we are used to here in the U.S.

Good point, it is easy to put the centre maps of the Earth on Europe, the USA or Asia then forget how this looks for other nations.

See Twitter activity in real time. The site's map develops into a current population map. Challenge students to make observations as the map changes.

"Google Earth (earth.google.com) works wonders but loves to crash on older computers. Try the University of Texas at Austin's renowned Perry-Castañeda Library Virtual Map Room for a wide array of PDF maps from around the globe."

"Want to explore the world through maps and help with humanitarian work at the same time? Map remote locations to help the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres and do just that!"

Map with over 2,000 educators from around the world. Add yourself via the free UKEdChat app.

Great review for geography

Learn about the geography of the world and help some people around the world at the same time with this great map game. For each answer the site's sponsors will donate money to provide money for clean water projects in some of the poorest countries. The more accurate the answer, the more money is given. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

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

maps a wide variety of OER available around the world.  Excellent resource.

A map of the world showing the orginal meaning of each country's name. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE,+RE,+Citizenship,+Geography+&+Environmental

"40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World" but you wouldn't want to use all of them in the classroom!

An interesting site showing useful world data as distorted world maps. Great for showing different data and ideas in a visual way. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

Visit Art Museums virtually. Zoom in on the Art.

Museums from around the world. Nice place to view art work from multiple locations quickly.

The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage & you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum, just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview & click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum. The best part of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. As you're touring a museum click on the "+" symbol on any work of art see it in greater detail, to add it to your collection, & to open background information about that work of art. To create a collection you must be signed into a Google account. This is a great way to start a story or writing prompt, or to explore history & cultures.

Find paintings from all over the world by their geographical location with this great Google maps mashup. Great for location-based project work. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design

Ancient maps added from all sorts of libraries all over the world. Cool!