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Geography, Miscellaneous
| My Wonderful World |
| http://mywonderfulworld.org/ |
"My Wonderful World" is a website created by National Geographic to teach young people about geography using fun and interactive games. Aimed at elementary school aged students, the site has a depth & breath that goes far beyond this age group.
Also found on the site are resoures and information for parents and teachers too.
If you want an engaging way to teach your students about the Provinces of Canada, the countries of Europe or the world's continents this is a great and free way to do it.
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Geography 12 and General Resources:
Canadian Council for Geographic Education - The CCGE's aim is to strengthen geography in the classroom, and this stie contains information on programs, teaching resources, and hints for other useful geography links.
Internet Geography Web Site - General physical, environmental, human, and economic geography, with special sections and lessons for teachers, and homework help for students.
Provincial Exams - Look through and download examples of past exams to prepare students for provincials.
British Columbia's Geography 12 Website - Created by B.C. teachers, this site is a stellar resource for both teachers and students. Information available here includes a course outline, ministry information, print and video resources, a lesson exchange area, field trip suggesions and suggestions to other Canadian geography links.
The Mill At Britannia Mine - The BC Museum of Mining offers a wealth of educational services and field trips opportunities to teachers and student groups who visit the Britannia mine site but, not everyone can come to Britannia Beach and take advantage of these opportunities.
No problem. The Internet can help. The staff at the BC Museum of Mining have put together a wonderful virtual tour of the mine and mill areas as well as information on the history and evelopment of the area. While nothing beats a real, on the ground field trip, this is not a bad alternative.
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Physical Geography:
World Weather Information Service - This site is useful to Geography 12 teachers and other educators teaching about weather and climate. It contains 69 meteorological organizations and their services, and provides weather and climatological information on 680 cities worldwide.
The Virtual Cave - Excellent visuals of the underground worlds of solution caves, lava tubes, sea caves, and others.
| Climate Connections |
| http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9657621 |
This yearlong exploration of climate change throughout the world provides news and features about energy, fuel efficiency, carbon emissions, effects of climate change on plants and animals, activism, and other environmental topics. Also includes video clips, podcasts, images, and an interactive map showing coverage and conditions around the globe. From National Public Radio (NPR) and National Geographic. |
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Geography 12 Maps, Flags and Anthems:
Flags of the World - Information about flags and visuals of over 32,000 flags.
World Population Clock - An excellent tool to help students understand the rapid growth of the world's population. From the Statcan site.
Canada's Population Clock - An excellent tool to help students understand Canada's population growth. From the Statcan site.
Extensive Geography Maps, Information and Photos- - This links provides extensive information and other links to maps, cartography, cultural geography, climate and weather,earth photos, distances and coordinates and daylight savings time, to name but a few.
Maps Middle East - Many maps of individual Middle Eastern countries as they exist in the twentieth century.
Outline Maps - Many outline maps of continents and the globe.
Outline and Blank Maps - All these maps are able to be printed for personal and educational use.
Photos and Images - Cities of the world, clouds from spac, satellite photos, imagery intelligence gallery and photos from the Space Shuttle are a few of the options available here.
Maps Australia and the Pacific - Many Australian and Pacific maps as they exist in the twentieth century.
Modern Maps of the Antarctica
Anthems - Anthem gifs and some English texts offered for almost every country in the world. An excellent site!
Maps - Information on cartography, understanding maps, as well as outline, blank, topographic and world maps.
| TerraClues |
| http://www.terraclues.com |
TerraClues is a website that utilizes Google maps for educational purposes. Teachers (or students) can place hidden clues on a map that can only found when student locate the site where the clues are located. To find the site, teachers can create a series of clues which can be hints, questions or actual pictures.
Parts of the website are open to the public while other parts can be made private, accessible to a particular class or classes of students.
There is also a very detailed tutorial that will walks users through the process of creating a new "hunt". In addition other teachers have make their hunts sharable so that they can be used by other teachers. During a recent visit to TerraClues, I noticed that the featured, "Hunt of the Week" was on the topic of. "The Age of Exploration". which would make a great activity for Grade 8 students.
The site is free to use but does require an account which is also free and easily obtained. If teachers want to create a private area that only their students can access then they will also have to create accounts (which are free as well) for their students. |
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Canadian Geography:
The Barren Lands: J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892 - 1894 - J.B. Tyrrell was a famous Canadian geologist who went on numerous expeditions surveying a large portion of central and eastern Canada in the early 1890s. The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has placed over 5,000 items related to these expeditions online, including images from field notebooks, photographs, maps, and published reports. Material describes the Barren Lands expeditions of 1893 and 1894, along with some additional materials from the Hudson Bay expeditions of 1885 and 1900. Includes diaries, letters, maps, photographs, and interactive maps of the four main expeditions, which allow users to click on different parts of the maps and obtain the documents that relate to each geographical area of the journey.
Canadian Geographic - This site provides excellent visuals and information about the Trans Canada Trail, accurate maps with accompanying information from 1700 to 1999, interactive games and feature articles. Canadian Geographic web site can be useful resource to both teachers and students.
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