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Note to teachers: the concept for this page is largely to use current
events to integrate geography. It is still under construction and we'd
appreciate any ideas or links you can submit.
Current Events Maps/Sources and Contemporary World Conflicts
Maps in the News (John R. Borchert Map library)
http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/news.html
Maps of showing where recent newsworthy events have taken place.
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/index.html
This site will provide a clickable map of all of the main conflicts
(and some smaller) of the world occurring now. In mid October of 2000 the
index page did not load and could have been down for updating. This site
is a great teaching tool when it is working.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/
Select a country from a pull down menu and then get a map and links
to five broad topics for each country: Geography, Government, Defense,
People, Economy.
CNN interactive
http://www.cnn.com/
This is an excellent site loaded with news related stuff. Make sure
you get to the interactive section.
LookSmart Current Events (all social studies)
http://www.looksmart.com/r?comefrom=nspanelnewsfeed&panel=catsum{day=today{sum=TopStories
Did you ever want an up to date WWW site where you can send kids to
get current events information? This one has a new top news story every
day. Look Smart's top news stories of the day is located at
Single Sites for Current Events (all social studies)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/topfact.html
Kids Click is a great site for easily getting to many, many current
events sites. It would be easy to assign kids to follow stories from several
sources, looking for differences using the Internet.
Global Scale Current Events
Rulers of the World 1700-present
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html
This site contains lists of heads of state and governments of all counties
and territories going back to 1700.
LightSpan Current Events Sources
http://www.studyweb.com/links/2278.html
This is a great page with ranked (see the apples) sources for specific
places across the globe. This is a must see site if you want to do anything
with global current events!
World Current Affairs and Newsgroups
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gtav/hotlinks/mednews.html
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