Re: Geography Education resources

[Anton Ninno <anton@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

Geography education resources from AskERIC and AskLN.  - Anton

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INTERNET SITES:

* Parent Brochure
How Can We Help Children Learn Geography.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Geography/

* National Council for Geographic Education
http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/ncge/

* Working with Maps, USGS Learning Web
Several activities are presented to assist in teaching the concepts of
reading maps (grades 5-8). The Teacher Guide explains how the activities
are related to locations, places, relationships, movement, and regions.
Provides links to other topics on earth science and global changes.
http://info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.html

* The Geographers Craft
A teaching initiative being pursued in the Department of Geography at the
University of Texas to improve the teaching of geographical techniques at
the introductory level.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/contents.html

* National Geographic Map Machine
Clickable world map which retrieves country maps, flags, and country
information. Also includes selected area maps, political and physical maps
and an interactive Macromedia Shockwave enhanced world map.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

* Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
From the Univ. of Tennessee. Information about simple map making.
http://loki.ur.utk.edu/ut2Kids/maps/map.html

* Geography links
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/geog.html#GEOGRAPHY

* Online Map Creation
The Online Map Creation site lets you draw simple maps interactively. You
give the borders of the desired map and specify options, and a map will
show up on your Web page.
http://www.geomar.de/personal/mwein/omc_intro.html

* U.S. Gazetteer
Browse geographic info, maps and Census data for U.S. cities.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

* National Schoolnet Atlas
http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/schoolnet

* Tiger Mapping Service
From the US Census Bureau. Maps generated from zip codes or city/state
info. Census data can also be plotted on maps
http://tiger.census.gov

* SPOT Images
Enter location coordinates and receive the latest available satellite
picture of that area from an archive of over 4,500,000 images dating back
to 1992.
http://www.spot.com/

* AskERIC InfoGuide--Geography
Selected ERIC, Internet, and other resources for teaching geography.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/InfoGuides/Alphabetical_List_of_InfoGuides/Geography-12.95.html

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