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Woodrow Wilson Middle School
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Mr. Johnson and Ms. Mulcahy
Maps and Interactive Activities
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Maps.com: Reference Maps
www.maps.com/maps.aspx?nav=RM -
Maps.com: Map Games
www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx -
Funbrain - Where is That?
Identify the states or countries and their capitals from the six inhabited continents or the entire World.
www.funbrain.com/where/ -
Given a map of the United States, drop the name of the state on a blank.
www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf -
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Sheppard Software - USA Geography Map Game - States, State Capitals, State Abbreviations, State Trivia, Landscapes, Lakes, Rivers, Oceans, and much more.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm -
Sheppard Software - World Maps
www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm -
Lizardpoint - Test your Geography Knowledge
www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html -
Atlapedia Online - Contains full color physical, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
www.atlapedia.com -
Worldatlas.com - World Maps
www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/moremaps.htm -
Geography-Games - Link to other websites for interactive Geography activities
www.geography-games.com -
Scholastic.com: Computer Lab Favorites
Choose the green Social Studies tab to check out games and virtual tours.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/tguidesitemap.htm?lnkid=TNav:SA:Computer%20Lab%20Favorites&ESP=SA/ib//acq/comp_lab_fav_tnav_SA///nav/txtl////
General Information
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National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com -
National Geographic Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ -
The World Almanac for Kids: Geography
www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-Chapter.aspx?chapter_id=5 -
The Internet Geographer - Web Resources for School Geography
Includes activities and quizzes such as "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" and 20 questions
www.internetgeographer.co.uk/ -
Census Information - 2000
www.easidemographics.com/cgi-bin/ReportMenuFree.asp -
Free Language Translation
www.freetranslation.com -
Calculate the distance between two locations (Courtesy of indo.com)
www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist -
About.com: Geography
http://geography.about.com
The United States or America
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Three branches of the federal government.
Take the statement "leaves" fill in the blanks on the correct "branch" of government.
www.texaslre.org/branches_game.html -
Bill of Rights.
www.texaslre.org/BOR/billofrights.html -
The Supreme Court Historical Society
www.supremecourthistory.org -
The Department of Homeland Security provides information on both legal & illegal immigration.
www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics
The World
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The United Nations
www.un.org/en/ -
Library of Congress: Portals to the World
www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html -
Geographic.org - Geography, Climate, Countries, Maps, Flags, Population
www.geographic.org -
Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook - History, People, Government, Economy, Geography, Communications, Transportation, Military, and Transnational Issues for 266 world entities.
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html -
Expedia - Explore by Destination
www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/default.asp?rfrr=-52638 -
World Travel Guides
www.worldtravelguide.net/country -
Country Reports - Cultural, Historical, and Statistical Country Information
www.countryreports.org
Historic People
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Biographies and other information on declared Democratic and Republican candidates
www.nytimes.com/ref/us/politics/2008candidates.html
World Organizations
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The mission of CARE is global women’s empowerment.
www.care.org