World Geography

U.S. national geography standards

"BrainPOP was founded in 1999 by Dr. Avraham Kadar as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients."

"Teaching ideas based on New York Times content."

"Library of National Geographic’s popular education content, highlighting our iconic media and expert resources aligned with education standards. We offer a wide range of free educational resources that bring geography, science, and social studies to life for educators, learners, and their families."

Often for a cost, Scholastic directs you to their books and classroom resources.

"Share My Lesson is a place where educators can come together to create and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other."

"The website offers more than 100 free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level." To download full lesson plans you need to create an account.

"Teaching for Change operates from the belief that schools can provide students the skills, knowledge and inspiration to be citizens and architects of a better world — or they can fortify the status quo. By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens."

"Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants."

Images from National Geographic.

"The NOAA collection spans centuries of time and much of the natural world from the center of the Earth to the surface of the Sun. Because of this broad base of scientific expertise and the geographic range under which NOAA science and observations are conducted, the NOAA collection includes thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of our shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from the great whales to the most minute plankton."

Online videos from around the world.

An amazing tool that visualizes data about opportunity in the United States by identity characteristics. Open the toolbar on the left-hand side and select "Stories" for some curated exploration.

Free, downloadable outline maps of the world.

"Esri publishes story maps with three goals: To showcase interesting and important topics; to explore techniques and best practices for map-based storytelling; and to help enable people to make their own story maps."

"Explore the world in 3D."

"View lesson plans for a variety of grade levels and subjects, discuss Google Earth teaching tactics with fellow educators, see student-created work, and read how other teachers are using Google Earth in the classroom."

"The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection."

Customizable maps.

Varied collection of current and historical maps from the University of Texas.

A growing collection of digitized "topographic maps created throughout the Survey's history."

"Collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest."

"The Decolonial Atlas is a growing collection of maps which, in some way, help us to challenge our relationships with the land, people, and state. It’s based on the premise that cartography is not as objective as we’re made to believe. "

Explore the world through images and visualized statistics.

"... literary comics, animations and podcasts about contemporary social and human rights issues, including conflict, racism, migration and asylum. We combine ethnographic research with illustration and photography, adapting personal testimonies into art, advocacy and education materials."

Teaching with Technology Today, Milwaukee Area Technical College

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