Geography Education Resources
Countries
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Kids World Travel Guide - Use the links to find facts about countries
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Countries by National Geographic Kids
Flags
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World Flag Facts from Kids World Travel Guide
Games
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City-Guesser - Use map clues from a city to guess the location. Challenging
game as labels are removed, use clues like bodies of water, rivers, and
city layout
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GeoGuesser - View an image from Google Street View then guess where
the photo was taken
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Quizzity - Guess the location of cities, bonus points for speed
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Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? Google Earth game
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WikiWhere - Test your knowledge of major cities and their locations
Tour Creator from Google
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Tutorials for Tour Builder from Donnie Pierce
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360 Degree Learning with Google Tour Creator from Eric Curts
Learning Passport
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Your Journey: Your Personal Guide to Geo Tools, Google Doc to help
students build their skills using Google Earth. Make a copy of the original
to modify to meet your needs
Maps
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Map Maker Interactive from National Geographic is an online mapping tool allowing users to explore the world using themes, data, and tools
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Mapping the Nation - from the Asia Society, mapping resource to support international education
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Geopedia - combines geography and encyclopedic information
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The True Size - website that allows you to compare the sizes of countries
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The Secret Door - drops users into a Street View somewhere in Google Maps
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Indoor Maps - Go Inside with Google Maps
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Google Crisis Map - weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness (advisories, warnings, earthquakes)
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World Atlas -guides and atlases for information and statistics
Voyager
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Google Earth Voyager Stories - launch page for a wide collection of stories
