6 Gold World Geography's textbook Geography: The World and Its People, has
it's own website. This website is a wonderful way for students to conduct
research, homework or study from home. The username is GWIP and the
passowrd is gubRERan35 . These are case sensitive!
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/geography/gwip2002/index.html
National Geographic for Kids. A wonderful resource featuring animals &
nature, people & places, space & science, history, games, videos, activities
and stories.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
Time For Kids website has current events, games, and other useful
information. You will also find news, movie reviews and much, much more!
Enjoy!
http://www.timeforkids.com
National Geographics website includes interactive features, activities,
current events links and archives. On this site, you will also find news,
animals, environmental issues, people and places, spectacular photography,
historical articles, videos, music, maps and kids links.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
The Time For Kids website that is useful for students wanting to explore
different countries is as follows:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/goplaces
CIA's World Factbook contains information on the world's countries.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook
The National Geographic's country profile website is as follows:
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/countryprofiles.html
When looking for information about the average temperature and average
rainfall for various places around the world, please use this website.
http://www.worldclimate.com/
A good resource for continent maps and other geographical reasources
http://www.eduplace.com
World wide weather can be found on the following website:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/
Where are countries located? Want a game to help you learn? Try the
following website:
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/games_popup.php?g=ges_wqmm
The worlds time zones can be found at this website:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
The different countries around the world and useful information about each
one can be found at the following website:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
This website has useful facts about the world's countries.
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/
Looking for the average temperature or average rainfall for a particular
place on earth? Try this website:
http://www.weatherbase.com/index.php3?set=us
Online resource for Social Studies. User name: Mountview; Password: Mountview
http://www.brainpop.com/
This website produced by National Geographic magazine is interactive.
http://www.ngm.com/0512
Use this website for a tour of Australia! This is the website for your
Australian Srapbook Project.
http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/Fall03/australia/Index.htm
Zoom in on any place in the world including Mountview, even your own house!
http://earth.google.com/
Australia Webquest
http://academics.uww.edu/cni/webquest/Fall03/australia/Intro.htm
Here is an excellent resources to gather information on the countries of the
world. This information will include its geography, maps, flags, history,
current ruler, area, population, capital, largest cities, languages,
ethnicity/race, religion, literacy rate, government type and lots more. Use
this website for your research assignments!
http:infoplease.com/countries.html
This is the link that will help you with your observations about Mar's
surface.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g68/marsmap.html