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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.

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

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

For teaching some maps, and latitude and longitude

Anchor Chart binder/indexing wonderful idea for any class. Text mapping strategy for reading a big chunk of text. Other posts with great ideas.

AoW discussing a study that finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston. Great map/infographic as well.

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.

Ready to use primary source documents, lesson plans, activities and worksheets for all grade levels organized by era and topic. Also offers state regional lessons, and how to teach primary source documents as well.

This page includes all class assignments and notes for a 5th Grade Social Studies interactive notebook. The pictures are from Ms. Mohamed's example notebook. With each page, there is a link for any related maps, images, or outline notes. You can download these documents and print them. You can then follow the matching PowerPoint presentations on the homepage.