Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Geography/map Skills Quiz
In this ten question quiz, students can assess their understanding of key geographical features on maps.
Other
Ordnance Survey: Map Zone: Measuring Distance
Read how to measure distance on maps using straight lines, string, or a ruler in order to strengthen students' mapping skills.
Other
Usps: The Flags of Our Nation: All Over the Map
This activity reinforces students' geographic, directional, and map skills while conveying interesting facts and state trivia.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Map Maker Interactive and 1 Page Map Maker
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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Maps, Time, and World History
Learn how map projections and chronological constructs are used in the study of world history and help us to understand and interpret the past. Part of a larger site on world history, this unit on maps offers complete reading,...
Other
Ordnance Survey: Map Zone: Relief and Contour Lines
Discover how to read and show height on maps using relief and contour lines.
Other
Ordnance Survey: Map Zone
All kinds of fun and interesting ways to learn about maps and acquire mapping skills.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically,...
Other
Map Zone: Starting Mapping
Discover the basics of mapping by reading about what maps are, what they provide, how to fold them, and how to use them properly. Content focuses on Great Britain.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geostories: Geography on the Job
Each story point in this Geostory includes images, a short bio, and an interactive mapping tool that allows students to see the regions where geography work takes place.
University of California
Us Geological Survey: Cartogram Central
The USGS offers detailed information on Types of Cartograms, Congressional Districts, Software for Cartograms, Publications, and a Carto-Gallery.
Other
21st Century Skills: Geography
This "roadmap" can show how Information and Communication Technology tools can be used to develop and enrich geography content instruction. Examples are given for 4th, 8th and 12th grades.
Yale University
Yale: Photogrammar: Map
From 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information undertook the largest photography project ever sponsored by the federal government. Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Us History Map Assessment: Test Your Skills
Test how much you know about major U.S geographic features, Indian tribes, states and regions, European colonists and territorial expansion. View your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.
Tramline
Virtual Field Trip: Windows on the World
At this site you will find interactive activities, maps, photos, and even audio and video clips for studying the cultures of the world.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1899
A study map from 1899 using North America to illustrate various geographic terms commonly found on maps. The map shows examples of continent, river valley, peninsula, strait, bay, political boundary, lakes, island, ocean, cape, sound,...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Distribution of Native Americans, 1500
A map from 1906 of North America central Canada to northern Mexico showing the distribution and territories of the Native Americans around 1500. The boundaries are based on linguistic stock and not tribal territories. "Anthropologists of...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Enviro Mapper Store Front
Lets kids create their own maps, down to the square mile, anywhere in America, choosing various features from water discharges to hazardous waste to roads.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Urban Models in the Real World
By using Google Earth and city road maps, students will compare the layout of their city to one of the three North American urban models and see which one is the best fit.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life
Beginning with a discussion on how people adapt to or relocate to environments, this lesson encourages students to explore why the Colonists settled in specific regions. In groups, students examine primary documents, analyzing Colonists'...
Other
Space Hopper: Where Is This?
Study the place shown in the photograph. Where is it on the big map? Try interacting with the image or slideshow to look for more information about the location. Find the location on the map and click the red dot to make your choice,...
Forum Romanum
Outlines of Roman History: Beginnings of Rome: The Situation of Rome
The seven hills of Rome are shown on two maps, showing the hills and their relation to neighboring lands on the Italian peninsula. There is a brief discussion on the geographic importance of the hills.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's the Problem?
Students learn of the impending asteroid impact scenario, form teams and begin to study the situation in depth. A simple in-class simulation shows them the potential for destruction and disaster. They complete worksheets and look at maps...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...