Exploring+Geography

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Enjoy trying out your mapping skills on these interactive sites!

__**For Research: **__ National Geographic Kids: Countries Around the World A fantastic research site! Each of these links provides information, pictures, a video and maps of the country. Use this source to find out about geography, history, culture, and government.

Students of the World: Country Information This site allows you to view different countries and provides information on their cities, physical geography, climate, temperatures, population, languages, economy, and natural resources. A GREAT site to start off your research!

KBear Geography: Maps, Information and Music! A fantastic place to learn about climate regions around the world. This site also has a database of traditional songs from most countries. After finding your research information you can play a review game that tests your knowledge of where countries are on a world map!

Climate Zone: Climates of the World This site provides individual country profiles about the climate, location and geographical coordinates. It even has average temperature maps for major cities!

WolframAlpha Search Engine: Compare Countries In the search bar type: compare country 1 country 2 and you will discover lots of information about the countries. If you go to the "geographical information" table and click "more" you can learn about natural resources of those countries as well!

KidsClick!: A Student Safe Search Engine

Oxfam Kids: This site provides stories of children who live in other countries. These first hand account provide examples of what it is like to live where they live.

Unicef Country Statistics: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a more advanced reading level site with tons of statistics about each country.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">For Review: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic: Interactive MapMaker <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a fantastic site which allows you to view different types of world maps, drop markers, and measure distances. You can also view the map by turning on functions for various physical features or human systems. A great tool for learning the many ways you can describe regions of the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Kids: Geo Trivia <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This fun quiz is a fun way to test your knowledge of where famous physical landmarks are located and what physical features are. This is an awesome study tool.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">BBC Learning: Mapping Skills <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Welcome to the map where you can test your skills with a compass rose, grids, keys and scale!

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">For Fun: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic: GeoBee <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is like a spelling bee, but for geography! These daily mini quizzes are ten questions and you can accumulate points every time you do them. Can you rise to the challenge and be a GeoBee?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fin Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation: Geography Missions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is a fun site that provides you with geography spy missions. Note: lots of reading required, but the missions are piles of fun!

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