This interesting site provides quite a variety of maps from the 1400s to the present, all based on important events occurring in America. You can find a map of Trade Routes Before Columbus, the Japanese Empire, Civil Rights Hot Spots and...

A quick game where students drag and drop the name of each continent onto the correct location on an interactive world map.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Career of Columbus by Charles I. Elton (1892), a nonfiction book of the travels of Columbus which includes a map.

Using this resource, children learn about food and children around the world. Links to various nations and their resources, or lack thereof of, are included.

Take a journey of "world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses" with 360-degree images with Street View by Google Maps.

Children use spatial skills to put together a map that has been broken up into pieces. This activity will help them understand spatial sense and practice using a map.

An unfortunate spill of 92,000 rubber ducks into the ocean in 1992 elicited invaluable information about global ocean currents as scientists tracked their journeys around the world. In this lesson, students first learn about the Ocean...

Smithsonian Education presents Contrasts in Blue: Life on the Caribbean Coral Reef and the Rocky Coast of Maine. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which learners explore two marine ecosystems, the coral reefs...

Help Jamal read maps, describe directions, and identify coordinates in this series of interactive exercises.

In this lesson, Mimi Norton integrates world geography with the study of Chinese culture and history by engaging her young students in a variety of activities to locate natural and human-made landmarks on maps of China. To build...

Astrid lives in Norway, and really likes Viking ships and rocks. She is visiting a Viking museum, and needs help learning about different types of rocks, where rocks come from, and the different characteristics of rocks.

This imaginative lesson uses food products to demonstrate the physical characteristics of maps.

This site is a very simple overview of plate tectonics. It includes a map of all the major plates and a diagram of the layers of the earth.

In this learning module, students will explore the world of geography by creating and analyzing maps.

Click the continents on this animated map to learn facts about some of the languages spoken in the world.

Students will play an interactive game to interpret simple maps by describing position, plotting points with coordinates, and drawing and following a path.

Meet Calypso the fish and go to the underwater world to learn more about position on maps.

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....

Lorani is a mermaid who lives underwater in the ocean. What she loves most in the world is the sun. Join her and learn about the sun, too.

Theo is on a cruise ship with his family. They're having a party with loads of food. Not all the food is healthy though. Can you help Theo choose healthy foods?

Learn about the properties of magnets, what metals are attracted to them, what magnetic poles do, and about repulsion and attraction.

John and Jessi are going underwater, and they need to stay warm. Help them learn about conductors of heat so they can stay warm.

Abubakar lives in Egypt near the pyramids. He needs your help to decide the position of objects. Can you help him?

Explains the basic parts of plants followed by a short quiz.