Curated OER
"Trails, Rails, and Roads" Lesson 2: Road Tripping
Learners practice map skills and take a virtual road trip through Maine examining the history of transportation. They create questions from the information they learned and play a game against other groups.
Curated OER
Why Do You Live Where You Do?
Eighth graders identify reasons why settlers bought land from the railroad and not a Homestead grant. Using that information, they compare and contrast the types of land given in each situation. They discuss the reasons why given...
Curated OER
Australian Travel Adventure
Seventh graders are introduced to the states and territories within Australia. Using the internet, they bookmark sites and take notes on what they want to share with their classmates. They also complete a map study on the country to...
Curated OER
Trekking to Timbuktu
Students view a television show to provide a context for conducting research into the location and culture of Timbuktu. The students complete a report on the subject in the form of a research paper.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: North American Regions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a labeling activity and Activote questions pertaining to the North American regions.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Countries of North America
Test your knowledge of the countries of North American with this interactive.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: North American
Learn about North American countries and geography. The flags, maps, exports, natural resources, and languages of North American are found on this website.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Word Search: Geography of North America
A fun word search game with terms from North American geography. Play online or print out a version for use in class or at home.
World Atlas
World Atlas: North America
Features maps and a description of the geography and history of North America with links to information on its countries, famous people, flags, symbols, and much more.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: North America
Media-rich site that explores North America. The first part of this workshop focuses on the general human behavior in urban settings looking for and interpreting those patterns. The second portion draws attention to urban issues such as...
Read Works
Read Works: This Is North America
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, geographical information about North American is provided in this informational text. Questions that assess multiple reading skills...
Read Works
Read Works: Native Americans
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about various Native American tribes who have lived throughout North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Canada
Features a complete destination guide to Canada, a country profile, background overview, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the country's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news, government,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Postcards From the Southwest
The Southwest region of the United States is filled with beautiful landscapes and marvelous cities. Use this site to see and learn about some of the wonders of the Southwest. You'll look at postcards from an imaginary trip. Then you can...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Towns in the Northeast
"All communities are different. They have different locations, different attractions, different people, different businesses, and different schools." This site is about some of the cities in the Northeast section of the United States....
A&E Television
History.com: The States
Learn unique facts about each American state. You can also read a more in-depth history of each state, watch videos and play a game about all the states.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: The North Dakota Access Pipeline
The NDAP has many people upset, but those most upset are the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmentalists. Understand what the problem is with this underground pipeline. Find comprehension questions and vocabulary identification.
BBC
Bbc: News: Country Profile: Canada
The BBC provides many great facts about the second largest country in the world, Canada. You can listen to the national anthem, learn about its leader, view a timeline of key events, and link to national media agencies.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Mexico
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Mexico's geography, nature, history, people and culture, and government. Includes a map of the country that pinpoints its North American location and a video about the spectacular Copper Canyon in...
Climate Zone
Climate in Mexico
Tables for the different climate regions in Mexico show the average monthly temperature, rainfall and snowfall in this North American country. General geographical information and a map are also included.
Ducksters
Ducksters: North Carolina State History for Kids
On this website, students read about the history and timeline of the state of North Carolina including early explorers, Native Americans, Roanoke Colony, the American Revolution, and the Civil War.
Ducksters
Ducksters: North Dakota State History for Kids
Kids explore the history and timeline of the state of North Dakota including early explorers, Native Americans, Louisiana Purchase, and becoming a state on this site.
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.