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China, Continents, Countries and World Regions
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South America |
Antarctica/ Arctic |
Concept of Regions |
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Antarctica
Antarctica OnLine
http://www.antdiv.gov.au/
Official government site with information and links about the land
down under.
Virtual Antarctica
http://www.terraquest.com/va/index.html
Record with images of an expedition in Antarctica.
Virtual Tour of McMurdo Sound
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/mcmurdo/
Lots of pictures, be sure to click on them. Relatively fast loading.
Arctic Circle
Arctic Circle Home Page
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
Nicely structured site from UCONN.
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Asia
Ask Asia
http://www.askasia.org
This is the place to go for classroom-tested resources, cultural information,
games, and a virtual community of teachers that focus on Asian and Asian
American studies. Ask Asia, part of the Asia Society's Asian Educational
Resource Center, is designed to be used with and by students in grades
K-12.
AskAsia Map and Timeline Library
http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/maps.htm
Maps listed by country. They show type, size of the file and year created.
Downloadable and free!
Palestine
http://geography.miningco.com/msubpalestine.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
Links to news an information sources about Israeli-Palestinian-international
relations.
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Africa
Project Africa
This site was created by the Minnesota Alliance for Geograpic Education
out of Macalester College in St. Paul, and is dedicated to helping you
teach about Africa. The site has links, lessons, a bulletin board, quizzes,
a documnents section and a page where you can download files. An extremely
valuable site. http://mage.geog.macalester.edu/Africa/index.html
African Studies Center
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
The University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center is an excellent
place to begin gathering information for an African studies project. The
Center's online resources include archives, multimedia, and links to related
sites of interest to students in grades K-12.
Our Story (Africa) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cardell/africa.html
Africa onLine--Kids Only!
http://www.africaonline.com/AfricaOnline/coverkids.html
Read Rainbow Magazine, a Kenyan magazine for kids, solve word searches,
quizzes, crosswords, decode secret messages, learn about the over 1000
languages spoken on the continent, find a keypal, and more.
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Europe
European Union Home Page
http://s700.uminho.pt/ec.html
Click on a flag from the simple map to go to that country’s home page.
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North America
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South America
Inca Trail
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.us/~angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Peru/IncaTrail.html
Project Central America
http://www.adventureonline.com/pca/
Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Explore the geography, rainforest and people of the Ecuadorian Amazon
through online games and activities. Some of the activities have been designed
for American kids instead of an international audience.
Virtual Reality Tour of Aruba
http://www.aruba.com/pages/vrtour.htm
More of a travelogue, but interesting VR movies and they load very
fast in a seperate window!
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Regions
Oklahoma Alliance's Tools of Geography may be as good as it gets for
a definitive set of links for HS Geography: MAPS, GIS, GPS, Atlases and
Globes, Aerial Photos and other images from up. http://www.ou.edu/okage/ResTol.html
Area Studies List from Western Connecticut
http://www.wcsu.edu/socialsci/area.html
Very comprehensive listing of supporting materials for area studies.
World Regional Geography
http://www.geographia.com/
Nothing but an attractive, long set of links here. But this may be
the only site your students will need to gather information about World
Regions.
Country and Region Information
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gtav/hotlinks/maps.html
Cultural/Regional Geography
http://geography.miningco.com/msub16.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
Links to language and cultural landscape and region resources.
World Language Map
http://www.webofculture.com/refs/languages.html
Clicking on the map will generate a chart showing all of the languages
spoken on that continent.
Linguistic Map of China
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/middle_east_and_asia/China_ling_90.jpg
Large color map with a number-color legend depicting languages.
Linguistic Map of India
http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/india4.htm
Shows the official languages of India. A lesson link is at the top
of the page.
Russian Ethnic Groups
http://es.rice.edu/projects/Poli378/Maps/Former_USSR/People/Ethnic.gif
Large color map depicting ethnic distribution in Russia with a legend.
Special Economic Zones of China (1996)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/middle_east_and_asia/China_econ96.jpg
Large map uses a legend to show the zones.
Ecoregions of the U.S.A.
http://research.esd.ornl.gov/~hnw/esri98/
A New High-Resolution National Map of Vegetation Ecoregions Produced
Empirically Using MultivariateSpatial Clustering.
Religion
http://geography.miningco.com/msub65.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
The geography of religions is a vital component of regional as well
as cultural geography.
Country Studies
Countries of the World
http://www.microtec.net/khouryy/count.html
This is a HS Geography home page extension. A nice list of countries
by continent. The list may not be inclusive and some countries doesn’t
have active links.
Learning About Geography from geograhic.org
The "Country Ranks" (new) would be worth it alone for most teachers.
Climate, flags, countries, maps, people. Go look now!
http://www.geographic.org/
Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/
Find out how your nation compares to other nations at this site. Lots
of data--for older students (7-12). Button choices include “compare”, “rank”,
“summary”, “settings”. For example, when you choose rank you will be able
to select from about 50 topics to rank and then choose to view the top
or bottom of these in groups of five.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/
Doesn't have much to do with conflict, but it is an easy to navigate
site and the individual country profiles have lots of topics.
By Country PHOTO GALLERY
About 20 countries of the world
http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/index.html
Independent States in the World
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/independent_states.html
List of all of the states (191) from the US Dept. of State
Names Files of Selected Countries
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/cntyfile/af.zip
Down load zipped files of selected countries. The files contain all
of the geographic names in that country. Does not include the US or Antarctica.
Utilization of this site requires some computer skills.
Library of Congress Country Studies Page
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Great site! Search for any country in the world from the front page.
Hall of Geography
http://www.tenet.edu/academia/geog.html
This is a nicely organized site with an index by continent
Countries: Virtual Tourist
http://city.net/regions
Students take tours of various countries and cities around the world.
They travel by clicking on a map. (This site was previously called Virtual
Tourist II)
Country and Region Information
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gtav/hotlinks/maps.html
ABC News Country Profiles
http://abcnews.go.com/reference/countryprofiles/countryprofiles_index.html
Text and small map. Easy to get to countries, but not all that much
information.
Country Border Photographs
http://www.borderpictures.com/
Another great site just waiting for a lesson plan! It doesn't have
border pictures from every country, but quite a few! The quality varies,
some are satellite shots. Many are narrated. This is actually a page of
links out, but all found for you!
Countries Listed by Continent
http://teen.iln.net/html_p/geography/countries/countriesbycont.asp
Nice neat lists.
Tops of the World
http://www.stats.demon.nl/top25.htm
This site site provides lists of the biggest/best countries in area,
population, cities, economic, resources and a general category. Easy to
use, quick and very interesting!
World Monuments Map Puzzle
(download for Windows only from Owl and Mouse Educational Software)
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/monuments.htm
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