Earth Awareness Educational Resources

This is a resource for teachers and students to find useful information in the subject areas of: social studies, geography, science, history, K-12 outreach programs, and the environment. This resource is updated on a weekly basis. If you know of a useful addition please contact the "Earth Awareness" webmaster.

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Geography Sites:

50 States and Capitals - Need info on any of the 50 states? Get it here.
The Living Africa - The people, the land, the wildlife, the national parks. Take a virtual safari!
AskAsia, The Asia Society’s Asian Educational Resource Center - Grades K-12 - This site has comprehensive information, resources, and teaching materials about Asia and Asian-Americans. There is a virtual art gallery, a large selection of lesson plans, a locator for teaching materials in your region of the U.S., a page to send questions from teachers or students to experts on Asia, a page of interviews with authors about Asia, and a large collection of supplementary teaching materials, such as maps and images. This could be a great resource for familiarizing both teachers and students with Asian topics.
AtmoSphere - aims to provide students with all the educational material they need to learn the Geography atmosphere syllabus at their own pace.
Blue Ice: Focus on Antarctica - a virtual field trip to Antarctica for grades 4 - 10 that covers geography, weather, history, geology and wildlife.
Country Watch - Website to the World: Find current information about any country of the world. General information, people and history, economy, agriculture, energy, metals, environment, and more.
Dept. of Geography Search Find geography departments all around the world.
Destination Himalayas - Where Earth Meets Sky - All about the earth's highest mountain range. From it's geologic past to flora and fauna to the environmental problems the range is facing.
Discovery Channel Online Earth Alert - Daily updates of the state of the planet. Click on the icons superimposed on the world map for short news items on significant natural events like earthquakes, floods and landslides.
Earth - Devoted to the big blue marble we call home. All about our earth's physical geography.
EarthRISE Image Collection - Popular collection of 116,100 images snapped from NASA vehicle flights. These photos were taken by astronauts out the windows of the Space Shuttle and other space vehicles. EarthRISE contains photos from the past 35 years and is a great resource for students, educators, and the general public interested in our planet.
Ancient Egypt - Grade 4-6 - Use interactive web games to learn and test about ancient Egypt in this student made site. Students could use this as a springboard for further research or to gain overall knowledge about Egyptians. Thinkquest Junior Winner: first place, social studies, 1998.
Flags of the World - Here you can read more than 6900 pages about flags and view more than 12,500 images of flags.
Geogram On-Line - A source of information about geography and related subjects for students and friends of geography. Utilizes short articles, features, links, and illustrations using the format of an on-line periodical. Topics will show how actual events and geographical concepts are related. The goal of Geogram is to help people better understand the implications and importance of geography in their lives.
Geography - maps, time zones, new countries, climate and cultural geography. Good site!
Geography Web Sites - Nice collection of links!
Geography World! - Geography World is an educational and entertaining Website designed for use in middle school geography classes. It will be of interest to students, teachers, or anyone interested in geography.
GeoResources - A geography website designed for 11-18 year old students and their teachers. It has hundreds of links catagorized by age group. It also includes case studies, virtual fieldwork, a weekly quiz, outline maps and much more...
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
Glaciew Image Database - Want to learn about Glacires? This is the place for you!
The Great Globe Gallery - A collection of globes and maps from around the world.
Great Lakes Information Network - At the Great Lakes Information Network, you'll learn
about the lakes' ecosystems, natural interrelationships, and the impact people have had upon this important freshwater system.
Virtual Hawaii - Virtually Hawaii provides what we call "Virtual Field Trips", which take you on different tours around the islands. The objective is to show you parts of Hawaii from space and the air, and then to show you ground photos of points of interest.
How far is it? Enter two places and find out how far apart they are.
Infonation - Allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
InternetGeographer - Great source for everything geography related.
The Library of Congress Country Studies - an excellent resource for information on the world's countries - type in the topic and then select the country.

Maps

Atlapedia Online: Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Earthrise Satellite Maps - Click on the above map to zoom in. Each time you click, the map will zoom in 8 times closer.
Gheos World Atlas - Maps of the world, comprehensive, but somewhat slow loading. Good site, if you have some time.
Global Climate maps - Nice website if you are interested in climate maps.
Mapquest.com - Maps, maps and more maps.
National Geographic Map Machine - Maps of everywhere. Check out the view from above.
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - links to other map sites, endless list of maps of continents, mostly produced by the state department - the mother of cartography sites on the web.
Outline Maps - Need a map for homework? This is a great resource to print out all kinds of maps: political, states, labels, no labels, world, and more!
Rare Map Collection - Like to look at old maps? this is the place for you!

Exploring the Ocean Planet - All about the earth's oceans.
RiverResource - A place where students of rivers can explore valuable river resources--a gateway to productive internet exploration. At RiverResource you won't find the facts, but rather the connections to facts, books, and people studying rivers. Here classrooms can share the information they are gathering about rivers.
Seasons - Why are there Four Seasons? Find out here.
Welcome to TerraServer - A huge repository of aerial photographs and satellite images taken from miles overhead that you can view and purchase.
Third from the Sun: Geographical Features Seen From Space - Grades 3-6 - The Exploratorium - This site is a self-guided tour and history of using satellites to see the earth from above. There are a few mysterious pictures taken from space for students to identify as well as a section explaining how NASA’s LandSat works. This would make good supplementary material for a unit of study on space or landforms.
The Time Zone Page - Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
US Census Bureau Geographic Services and Information - A plethora of geographic information.
The Virtual Geography Dept - Resources for geographers from the University of Texas at Austin.
VirtualTourist.com - Real travelers sharing real information. Cool site!
The Weather Channel - Check out breaking weather news or the forecast for anywhere.
Wild Weather - Interactive weather page for kids brought to you by Dan, the weatherman, in Huntsville, AL. Pages on: El Nino/La Nina, clouds, temperature, humidity, wind, tornadoes, hurricanes, A-Z weather index, and more.
Links for World Geography - Links to: geographic associations, geographic education, GIS, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Global/Regional Organizations, Country/Regional Profiles, Urban Geography/Urban and Regional Planning, and more. Brought to you by Dr. Michael A. McAdams of Texas A&M University.
World Travel Guide - Virtual travel to nearly any country of the world via Yahoo!