National Geographic Society

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: National Geographic Home Page. Everything you want to know about what National Geographic produces.

Comments: You can't learn about Geography without knowing about the National Geographic Society

Resource Type: Maps.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2254

Official National Geographic Homepage

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: This is a must see site for research. Teachers and kids will love the graphics and the variety of interesting geography information available here.

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2350

Great Globe Gallery

http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This is an award winning site with over 130 globes. It includes weather, population, climate, etc

Comments: Globes can be used to study concepts such as earthquakes, weather, ozone. This site is ALL graphics. Visitors choose which globes to view.

Resource Type: Maps.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1446

How far is it?

http://www.indo.com/distance

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Visitors can enter the names of two places then submit to find out how far apart. It includes county, location, population and elevation on each report.

Comments: This is an interesting site for those studying geography - especially location. Students might post locations on map, compare cultures, discuss reasons for differences and similarities.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1642

Time Zone Page

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Time Zone Page allows visitor to choose a city or country and to find out what time it is there.

Comments: Time Zone page is interesting for students studying countries and cultures. It also assists the study of location geography.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 3157

U.N. Resources

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Great current information about global trends, cities, demographic, maps - everything you need for that project! Standard 10.9.8

Comments: Part of U.N. Cyberschoolbus site

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3237

National Geographic Magazine Index

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngs/publications/explore.html

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: This is a useful index to National Geographic Articles for doing research on specific countries or regions or on issues such as environment.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 2252

U.S. Gazetteer

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Rating: 3, Medium.

Description: Type in a city and state and the gazetteer will generate a map. You can then zoom in or out, or add labels to the map to suit your purpose (such as cities, street names, bodies of water, reservations, railroad tracks, etc.)

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 3252