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Very detailed and comprehensive set of lessons, resources and all materials related to teaching geography concepts, vocabulary, and skills from the ground up for the Middle School level.

School or school district log in required to gain access to various maps (political, physical, interactive, current, historical) for all grade levels, as well as lesson plans

Bank of rigorous 8, 10, and 11th grade U.S. History questions from the state of

This website with maps includes a 4:00 minute clip from the West Wing where geographers blow some White House people's minds by informing them that we regularly view maps totally incorrectly, and they propose a new way of viewing maps. Great littler video to show students with a writing activity after.

Translated from Latin and abridged, this is Columbus's letter that he used to describe his arrival in the Caribbean. Shows how Columbus viewed the vast geography of the New World positively, but how he very much looked down upon the Native people. Can definitely be adapted and shortened even more.

Washington Post current event article about where the best places to be born are.