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National Geographic

National Geographic: Map Maker Interactive and 1 Page Map Maker

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This National Geographic feature allows visitors to create their own world maps complete with capitals, oceans, climate information, satellite view, personalized trail markings and more. Choose from a detailed color map or the second...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: My Wonderful World: World Wall Maps (Pdf)

For Students 9th - 10th
Make your own full color or black and white mosaic wall map on your own printer. World maps, continents, Asian regions, and oceans are available for downloading, printing, and assembling.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Temperate Oceans

For Students 3rd - 5th
How are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans different? At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden you can click on the "Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," link to learn all about this topic. Study the two animated illustrations given to...
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Exploring Nature

Exploring Nature Educational Resource: Oceans of the World

For Students 3rd - 8th
A set of illustrated fact pages, and some activity sheets, on coral reefs, tidal pools, and ocean ecosystems. Find maps, graphic organizers, and a movie link to tidal zones. Hyperlinks to specialized vocabulary words are also provided....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: World Atlas: The World

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides continent, country, and ocean floor maps from all over the world. Click on a continent's name to access the detailed maps which also include statistical facts on each available country.
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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Global Maps: Sea Surface Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
This global map from NASA's Earth Observatory shows the sea surface temperature from July 2002 to October 2008. Learn the influences that sea surface temperature has on climate and weather.
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Geographyiq

Geography Iq

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...
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Lizard Point Quizzes

Lizard Point: World Oceans and Continents Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your geography knowledge by taking this interactive quiz over the world's continents and oceans.
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Rice University

Rice University: Ocean Currents and Tides

For Students 9th - 10th
This URL will start you out at the site map for Rice University's study of longitude and navigation. Scroll to the section titled "Oceans" and you will find some very good information on surface currents, especially those of the South...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Final Project Map Skills

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: On Exploring the Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard takes us on a mindbending trip to hidden worlds underwater, where he and other researchers are finding unexpected life, resources, and even new mountains. He makes a case for serious exploration and mapping....
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Oceans Alive: Whale Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
You can click on whale spotting in Australia, types of whales, global whale sanctuary and whale songs. View maps and diagrams that can help you spot whales.
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Google

Google Maps: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
With these vibrant and stunning photos, you don't have to be a scuba diver-or even know how to swim-to explore and experience the Great Barrier Reef.
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Geography Games: Oceans and Seas

For Students 3rd - 8th
Study a labeled world map showing the oceans and seas, and then try to match their names to their locations on a blank map.
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Monroe County Women's Disability Network: Maps & Globes: Water Forms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is provided for by the Monroe County Women's Disability Network. Some basic information about water on our planet and the various water forms that make up three-quarters of the earth's surface. Includes some simple quizzes to...
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

University of California: A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Maps in different categories such as fishing, climate change, and pollution were pulled together into a composite map that shows the impact of humans on the world's oceans. Analysis at the time (2008) showed that 40% of the world's...
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Other

Climate Central: Surging Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive map that shows how areas will be effective by rising sea levels. See the flooding risks down to the neighborhood. Also find statistics of affected populations, homes and lands. There is also factsheets, widgets, and action...
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A&E Television

History.com: Why the Construction of the Panama Canal Was So Difficult and Deadly

For Students 9th - 10th
A staggering 25,000 workers lost their lives. And artificial limb makers clamored for contracts with the canal builders. In a quest to fulfill a centuries-old dream to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the builders of the Panama...
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Columbia University

Scientific Background on the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features information and related links that can be used by students and scientists to understand the events that led to the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Tomorrow's Forecast: Oceans and Weather [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson unit for Grades 4-9 on how the ocean affects climate and weather. Includes worksheets (also in Spanish) and maps.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science, Boston: Ebbs and Flows of the Sea

For Students 3rd - 8th
A simple one-page explanation of oceanic tides. Includes instructions for completing a tide-mapping activity.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Maps and Globes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews map and globe features. The seven continents, four oceans, and city-county-state-country relationships are also explained. Student assessment on directions is included.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom), including its geography, natural resources, history, government, economy, and much more. Maps and images are also included, along with sources used to create the...
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NOAA

Noaa: Pmel: The North Pacific Ocean

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a map of the North Pacific Ocean, links to the surrounding islands, the ocean currents, and more about the North Pacific.