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This site is sponsored by the U.S. Government, Census Bureau. It is speicfically designed as an educational resource for students, teachers and schools. The Census Bureau will provide lesson plans, maps, worksheets and other educational material free of charge to any teacher.

I observed my cooperating teacher using this site (Census in Schools) for a 6th grade geography class. The students responded positively and were actively engaged in the lesson. The students were able to work with their own individual maps while exploring and answering essential questions. The site also has information and materials appropriate for all other grades. I think that this site could also be used for U.S. History since the first census orginiated for the purpose of creating a representative government.

C-SPAN's Tocquville page (as promised). Passages from "Democracy in America," a map of the route he traveled, references to his work, lesson plans and more!!

This is a great site for students to use in the classroom. I used this in a middle school history class where we were studying the Middle East. Each student also had a blank hard copy to fill in with notes or to color. The students enjoyed working on the site and learned the material quickly...within the hour.

Compare North and South states on interactive maps to identify the differences between free and slave populations before the Civil War. Also includes discussion questions.

Mapman game.

Not sure how useful this actually would be, but incidentally, I killed it! :-) Thought ya'll would enjoy it . . .

Google Earth is a fantastic way to take students to any country in the world! As long as you have a computer and a projector, students can have amazing images of different countries. They also have features to help you study topography and maps.

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Reading about "geographic thinking" brought back horrible repressed memories of teaching World Geography last semester. There are no DCPS geography standards and, as you may have noticed, it is difficult to define what exactly it means to think/teach geographically (beyond memorizing the locations of countries on maps). I struggled a lot with this concept, but the best guidance I was able to find was from the Indiana World Geography Standards.

I found this resource helpful in teaching students how to look at maps objectively as a document rather than something to be thought of as completely accurate.

"The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization." \n\n "Within the Cyberschoolbus site there are a number of activities and projects that teach students about global issues in an interactive, engaging and fun way."

I used this site with my students in our study of diamonds and their origins. It's great interactive site that allows students to not only see the countries discussed on a map but also take a look at information on that particular country.

Mental Floss is a magazine that gives a very...quirky view of the world. It introduces little known facts and information that we might not have sought to find in addition to providing us well known facts and information in a new and usually very different perspective. This link is to the "Geography Challenge" an online quiz that extensively tests ones knowledge of the world and could serve as a fun way to present the world.

I will probably spend hours at a time playing map games. Save me from myself........