Standards,+Lessons,+and+Games

These links to Lesson Plans and Geography Games will help us identify what is possible with repsect tou designing our atlas (both in terms of content and its 'look and feel"). Explore them as you decide on what we should include in our atlas.


 * Links to Geography Games -** take special note of the use of color and text in these games. They may help identify what we should use in our atlas. __Some of these have sound!__ Check out a pair of headphones from the TA office (MS220) if you don't have your own earbuds.



Geography Games For Kids - By KidsGeo.com - http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/ - an assortment of 'identification' games.

Geography Game: USA - Presented by AddictingGames - http://www.addictinggames.com/geographygameusa.html - I really don't like the base map they use here. It is a cool, kid-like abstraction, but total misused here. Why they mad a game with the purpose of identifying geographic places that uses such an abstract representation is beyond me.

take the mental_floss geography challenge - http://www.mentalfloss.com/geographyzone/

Test Your Geography Knowledge - http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html

GeoNet Game - http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/

gamequarium.com - http://www.gamequarium.com/socialstudies.htm

Alfy.com - loads of kid stuff here, and a couple of games work looking at:
 * Animal Rescue - Australia: Free Online Kids Games: Alfy.com - http://www.alfy.com/games/playgame.aspx?gameID=567&name=Animal%20Rescue%20-%20Australia
 * Flag Game: Free Online Kids Games: Alfy.com – http://www.alfy.com/games/playgame.aspx?gameID=210&name=Flag%20Game
 * Map Race: Free Online Kids Games: Alfy.com - http://alfy.com/Games/playgame.aspx?gameID=351

Maps.com Online Map Games - http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF

Games by National Geographic
 * GeoSpy Geography Game - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
 * Maps: Tools for Adventure - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/toolsforadventure/
 * National Geographic GeoBee Challenge - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/

National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure - Map Games - http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/toolsforadventure/games/index.html - thes games are the best of the bunch (IMHO). They may be a bit beyond the grade levels we are shooting for, but boy are they great examples of what is possible with this technology and the promotion of geographic literacy.


 * Links to Geography Lessons Plans** - pay attention to K-4 for our atlas. These links to lesson plans will help us identify what is possible with repsect who might be using our atlas. Review them as you deliberate on what will go into our atlas.

Discoveryschool.com - http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/k-5.html - some pretty cool activites established by the people at the Discovery Channel.

Mid-continent Research for Education - http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=8 - lots of links and a very useful site if you ever become a teacher.

I4C - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lesson.htm - this site is deducated to internet-based instructional activities.

GSA - http://www.geosociety.org/educate/resources.htm#age - The Geological Society of America has some geography specific learning activities.

Geography Teaching Ideas - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/geography/contents.htm THis one is from the UK. Geography in England (and much of the rest of the world) holds a more esteemed position. It is thought of as an essential part of one's education. These links provide testimenet to that.

geography lesson plans and resources - http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edgeography.htm#us Another list of links.

GENI - http://baby.indstate.edu/gedenis/ista/intless.html - The Geography Educator's Network of Indiana

Earth Awareness Educational Resources - Geography - http://www.earthballoon.com/geo.htm - a huge list of links to learning resources avaialble to the would be Geography teacher.

GElessons.com - http://gelessons.com/ one of my favorites. It has lesson plans for using Google Earth as an instructional tool. We should consider how my might exploit this resources for our atlas.

Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com - thes lesson plans and activities on these pages are awesome. We should look closely at what we can o to match our atlas pages to these types of activites. - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/matrix.html

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