Internet+Sites

**Beth**

1.) Mrs. Travis's Classroom: Types of Maps This link provides students with access to a plethora of information on geography. The site include information on types of maps, the parts of a map, and what can be found on a map. I would direct students to this kind of link because it is clear and concise, allowing kids to clarify what they have learned in the classroom geography unit.

2.) Google Earth Google Earth is a great resource for the classroom. It is an informative, interactive, and amusing tool for helping students to look up where they live. They can learn about their state and home or they can even learn how to use their address to find where they live or their school. This website might be most effective if used in whole group instruction because it can be involved for younger students.

3.) Kbears This website provides fun and interactive games. Students can learn about each continent and its unique features. This website would be great to direct students to after they’ve finished work for clarification on the geography unit.

4.) Learning Games for Kids: Geography Education This website is another fun and interactive place where students can delve further into the characteristics of the countries they’re learning about in class. This focuses on North America and it can assist students in learning where they live and go to school. I would direct students to a website like this once they’ve finished seat work.

5.) Teaching Ideas This website is a great resource for teachers developing a geography unit. Teachers can navigate this website for access to maps and atlases. It can also be used to find worksheets.

**Christa**

1.) Geography4Kids This website is a great resource for students to learn about the different aspects of geography. It teaches students about earth's physical physical geography and other earth science basics.

2.) Web Geography for Kids This website contains interactive games and maps for kids. It also has information for teachers on teaching geography to their students.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3.) Geography <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website has information for students who are looking to learn more about geography. It gives you options to look at maps, ask a professional, and learn about people that live in different areas of the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.) Play Kids Games <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website is perfect for students. It has games for kids to play to learn geography and enhance their geography skills. It would be a great website for students to go on in class to help their skills.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.) [|Fun School] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website has many geography games.Students will find this website very interesting because it has interactive games.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Cooper**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.) National Geographic Kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website focuses on a kid friendly approach to Geography. It is better for review or busywork than for research. It’s aim is to get kids interested in geography. There is a directory of countries. Students can click to access information that is useful for geography projects.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.) KidsGeo <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website is built for information. It is better for research projects. The home page has different grade levels for all the facets of it’s site. Each of these web pages has a list of skills that are common for their grade level. The home page also has a list of nine subject areas on geography and geology that can be selected to view more information.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3.) Enchanted Learning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The home page of this site has a directory of several geography topics. It is good for elementary education because it doesn’t have extensive information on any one topic. It also has quizzes. One problem with the site is that it mixes pseudo-science with things that are more probable. For example, it firmly asserts that bones are easily dated at millions of years, the atmosphere is heating up, and that fossilized trees are considerably older than unfossilized trees.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.) Thinkquest <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thinkquest is well organized. It is straight to the point and neater than most of the other websites. I prefer this website to the others even though it lacks in visual “pinkiness”. The web pages look like word documents. It is a professional website, and there are no ads. Each page has the option to “format for printing”.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.) The Science Spot for Kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Science Spot is a website that has links to other websites about geography for kids. These websites include FEMA, NASA and USGS.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Nikki**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.) Info Please \  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site gives a brief overview of Florida’s terrain, location, and major landmarks. There are also links that can be followed to find out more about different major cities in Florida, including a brief history of the city. This site would be good to introduce Florida as a state to the students, however due to some more advanced vocabulary teacher guidance might be necessary or a definitions list given to students prior to viewing the site

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.) Maps that Teach <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is a great resource to teach about maps. There are printables, interactives, games, and puzzles of US maps and World maps.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3.) Ducksters: Geography <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is a fun and colorful website that include maps of the different countries, oceans, rivers, islands, mountains, lakes, deserts, the US, individual US states, the world, and also time zone and political maps.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.) Weekly Reader <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This interactive site is great for kids that love to play games. There are games for knowing the world and the different continents. Not only are these games fun, they allow students to see what they know and gain further knowledge about the information they do not know.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.)NASA <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website will interest kids and keep them entertained while learning. There are games and puzzles to be played, such as making jigsaw puzzles of maps or creating a 3D map of the Earth. It also includes a large inventory of photographs taken by satellites and other equipment that gives a real look at the earth and landmarks.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Staci**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.) Social Studies for Kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site has information about geography, maps, the government, and a lot of great information. This site would be a great site for students to use in order to enhance their knowledge on social studies information. The site also has a glossary for key words as well as fun facts to help make the subject fun for kids.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.) BrainPOP <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brainpop is a great site to help students understand social studies. This site uses videos, games, puzzles, and interactive quizzes in order to help teach and assess students about many different topics in social studies education. This site would be great to help enhance a lesson and will also allow students to play fun games.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3.) Learning games for kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site would be a great tool for students to utilize. The games are fun and entertaining and have many subjects to choose from. The students can play educational games about the world maps, country flags, as well as printable pages for teachers to use during class.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.) Education Place <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site is a great tool for both educators and students. The site has a section for educators where there are many useful tools. The site has a book list for many different texts. The books are different genres, and offers reading books that are helpful for English Language Support. For students the site has many games that include games and information for maps, countries, and also different subjects.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.) Time For Kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Time For Kids website is a great tool to use with students in the classroom. The site allows students to look up different countries. The site inculdes information about the continent with a map, a history timeline of the country, quizzes for students, and they can also read about "A Day in the Life" which allows the students to read about the daily life of the citizens of the country. This site is a great tool for students to help them research other countries or compare/contrast them.