Geography
World Exploration - GameA fun Geography quiz style game for high schoolers.
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/world-exploration |
The Story of ExplorationFind out how we humans have used bravery and ingenuity to explore the unknown.
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Free Online DocumentariesThis site compiles hundreds of documentaries from around the world. Topics include Biographies, Nature, Society and more. Videos are hosted through YouTube, Vimeo, etc, so some videos may be taken down or unavailable.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ |
Stop Disasters - GameStop Disasters is a game designed for students to learn about natural disasters, disaster prevention, and city design. There are five game scenarios that students can play. Students can plan to prepare for hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis. The scenarios are set in geographically accurate contexts of Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean.
Stop Disasters provides fact sheets to distribute to students about each type of natural disaster. Stop Disasters also provides teachers with teaching guides, lesson plan ideas, and links to additional reference materials. http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html |
Scoop It - GeographyA website that gathers articles based on your interest, this particular ScoopIt is geography based. Find interesting news articles, infographics, statistics and more!
http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education |
Geography Quizzes - SporcleSporcle is a trivia quiz website on which users have a set time limit to name all the items within a given subject, such as presidents of the USA or the countries in Europe. Anybody with a Sporcle account is able to create a quiz. Works on mobile devices as well as computers.
Tons of quizzes for geography topics. Have your students make their own quizzes for the class! http://www.sporcle.com/games/category/geography |
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Fantasy GeopoliticsFantasy Football - but with countries and the New York Times! Students draft countries and earn points by how many times their country is mentioned in the news. Students trade countries, build their team of countries and actively read the news, searching for mention of their 'players'.
From the creator: "Whatever they wanted to do to control their own learning experience, I did it. Now, they playfully trash talk about their countries and become fans of those countries, which spurs them to want to learn more. It’s almost like they are trash talking each other into learning more." Works on any mobile device! http://www.fantasygeopolitics.com/ |
The True Size Of AfricaAn incredibly eye-opening graphic of how skewed our map projections are and how big Africa actually is! I was totally surprised!
http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html |
Map Projections Comic - XKCDA fun, quick comic about the different map projections of the world. It doesn't give much information about the projections themselves, but could be a fun introduction to have students research!
https://xkcd.com/977/ |
World Geography Identification GameWith this fun website, students are able to learn to identify not only countries of the world, but also capitals, seas, rivers, flags, regions and much more.
http://world-geography-games.com/ |
GeoguessrUsing street view in Google Maps, you are placed in an unknown location in the world, and you need to guess where you are. You can move around to your heart's content and zoom in on houses, vegetation, signs, etc. to get clues as to where you are. The closer your guess is to the actual location, the more points you earn. You are given 5 random locations to earn as many points as possible. This is a great way to really emphasize critical thinking in the classroom!
https://geoguessr.com/ |
Ted Ed - GeographyThis library features a wide variety of educational videos curated specifically for education community. These TED Ed videos are explanatory tutorials and animations that cover a wide variety of topics.
Teachers can edit the lessons to include their own questions (multiple choice or open answer), add extra content such a links or start a discussion. http://ed.ted.com/lessons?category=geography |
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Google Newspaper Archives Google has a collection of primary sources that is phenomenal! They have an entire newspaper archive that is easy to zoom in for individual close reading, or for display for shared reading. You can also zoom out to get the big picture of the older newspapers. Original advertisements, editorials, articles, fashion, etc. are right there waiting for you!
news.google.com/newspapers |
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Google Art ProjectThe amazing Google Art Project allows internet users to select a museum from the 150 collections from 40 countries (so far!) on the homepage. Next, you can either choose to ‘Explore the museum’ (which allows you to use your mouse to “walk” through the galleries to experience the lay-out in 360 degrees), or ‘View Artwork'” (in such incredible close-up detail the paint seems to be flaking off your computer screen).
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project |
Text Message GeneratorHave your students create text messages between historical figures! You can make the exchange as long as you like. To share the conversation click the sprocket icon and grab the embed code, direct link, or QR code for the exchange.
http://www.classtools.net/SMS/ |
Fun YouTube Videos
Fun skit about relationships between countries!
Alphabet of Nations - They Might Be Giants
States and Capitals Song - Animaniacs
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
Nations of the World - Animaniacs
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