Geography

Norris School District

GEOGRAPHY LINKS

Take the GeoBee quiz sponsored by National Geographic.
Postcards from America --Site sends you a "digital postcard" each week and maintains a nice site for geography information and interest

Map Resources:

Mapquest
MultiMap
MSN Maps (Mapblast)
Google Maps
Live maps -- Check out the birds eye views!
National Geographic Maps and the Map Machine
Yahoo Maps
Education Place Maps (Many in PDF format-- very good for printing.)
Online Maps -- Listing of resources
MSN's Encarta Map section
TerraServer: Microsoft's astonishing rich collection of aerial and satellite images of places on earth
Space Imaging has a nice web site with satellite images
Need the GPS coordinates of a given address....checkout this Geocode site If you want to have some fun with your GPS and do a few "treasure hunts" ... check out this site.
About.com Geography http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm?once=true&
About.com Blank and Outline Maps http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/
Education Place Outline Maps http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
National Geographic Maps and Geography http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/maps_geography/index.html
Information Please Atlas http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/mapindex.html
Google earth is a great program... and it is Free!
Celestia is a space simulation program. It looks really nice and is Free.
Microsoft's local Live site offers maps and more.

States and Capitals:

States and Capitals --http://www.50states.com/

FunSchool's Geography Games-- A nice game for practicing Countries and Capitals. This one gives you the state and you pick the state on the map. They also have a nice drag and drop game.
Sheppard Site on States--this site is really good for students to practice the location of states.
**parent Sheppard Software web site--check this out for many more activities similar to the one on states!