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| | Our textbook, Geography: The World and Its People, has a website. This
website provides a great way for students to check their knowledge of our
current subject or look ahead to what is coming up. You must enter the
username (GWIP) and password (gubRERan35) to use the on-line textbook.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/geography/gwip2002/index.html
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| | National Geographic's web site has current events, activities, links,
interactive features, and archives.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
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| | Time For Kids web sites has current events, games, and other information.
Please look at the bottom of Time For Kids to obtain the web access code.
http://www.timeforkids.com
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| | This web site allows students to explore different countries.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/goplaces
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| | **Each Country Profile provides information on: Geography · Maps · Flag ·
History · Current ruler · Area · Population · Capital · Largest cities ·
Languages · Ethnicity/race · Religion · Literacy rate · Economy · Government
http://infoplease.com/countries.html
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| | **This is the CIA's World Factbook. It has information on every country.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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| | This is National Geographic's country profile website.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/countryprofiles.html
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| | This website provides information on average temperature and average
rainfall for many cities in the world.
http://www.worldclimate.com/
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| | **World Almanac for Kids
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/index.html
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| | This site shows the weather in the world.
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/
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| | Create bar, line, and circle graphs!
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
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| | This site has all the time zones on it.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
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| | **This website will help you locate information about different countries
in the world.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
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| | **This website will help you locate information about different countries
in the world.
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/
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| | This website will help you identify the average temperature and average
rainfall for different countries.
http://www.weatherbase.com/index.php3?set=us
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| | **World Atlas
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/find.htm
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| | **Countries A to Z
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
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| | Geography Game: Test your map knowledge of the various regions of the world.
http://people.depauw.edu/djp/shock_maps/
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| | Geography Game: Where Is That? Identify countries, states, and capitals
from maps.
http://www.funbrain.com/where/
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| | Latitude and Longitude Game...this is so fun!
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php
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| | Mapping Mars
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mars/
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| | Design a Flag
http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/parentguides/summer/makeflag.htm
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| | Another design a flag site...
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/flag/factory.html
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