Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring the World With p.w. Cracker!
This activity can be completed in a whole group or small group setting. After reading the book "P.W. Cracker Sees the World," the students will complete an inquiry project that connects social studies/geography to what they read in their...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: World Traveler
Seventh grade social studies students will create a passport and detailed daily travel journal. The project will incorporate a minimum of two types of technology as they create a narrative vividly describing a city/country. Specific...
Northern Illinois University
The Philippines: Module for K 12 Teachers and Learners
This module on the Philippines is a great "All-in-one" site for a teacher or class studying the Philippines. Covers everything from history and culture to games, festivals, creation myths, and folk beliefs.
Other
The Museum of the World
Students can explore this iconic museum with exhibits dedicated to everything from Egyptian mummies to the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Comparing Education Around the World
Students learn about Ken and Joab, two boys who are starting first grade. Ken attends school in Japan, while Joab lives in Kenya. Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding the two boys' experiences at school.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: This Dynamic Planet
Research and explore past earthquake and volcanic activity on this interactive world map. User can manipulate which notable events and other map characteristics to view depending on the type of study being done.
Information Technology Associates
Theodora: Slovakia: 2017
Information and statistics about Slovakia, collected from the 2003 CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress Country Studies. Sections include geography, maps, population, religion, military, international issues, history,...
Other
Wonderopolis: How Does the Earth's Surface Affect Culture?
Cultural geography is the study of cultural components and how they relate to the geography of the places where people live and travel. This article explains how geography influences culture. Included are activities, and a quiz at the...
Other
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. The collection...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Hargrett Library: Rare Map Collection
The Hargrett Library at the University of Georgia offers visitors the opportunity to view images of over 800 maps that go back almost 500 years. Researchers get a first-hand look at the lives of early Americans with these original maps...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Italy
The history of the Holocaust in Italy is generally well known, but to date there has been little systematic analysis of its spatial dimensions. The objective of this case study is to examine the Holocaust in Italy from a geographical...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: China Through Mapping
In this instructional activity, Mimi Norton integrates world geography with the study of Chinese culture and history by engaging her young learners in a variety of activities to locate natural and human-made landmarks on maps of China....
National Geographic
National Geographic: To Build an Island
"This lesson gives students a basic overview of the geography of islands. They learn where islands are located throughout the world and will study two very different island groups (the Philippines and the British Isles) to illustrate the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Companion Curriculum: Girl Rising
Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine different countries and the power education has to change their lives. The accompanying curriculum provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate students about the issues...
Other
Livius: Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Rich site provides a biography of Herodotus as well as a discussion of his sources and originality. Contains exhaustive material concerning the "world's first historian." Highlights include a study that explores how Herodotus described...
BBC
Bbc: News: Country Profile: Iraq
The BBC provides a general overview of the country of Iraq. Content includes a focus on Saddam Hussein, Iraq's press and media, an Iraqi timeline of key events, and much more.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Youth and Education in Afghanistan: Pulitzer Center
Investigate the daily struggle faced by many Afghan students seeking an education, and the danger faced by teachers and schools working to provide these children with an experience many Americans take for granted.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Malala Devotes Second Life to Girls' Rights: Pbs News Hour
"Today you can see that I'm alive," said Malala Yousafzai in her first interview since surviving a Taliban attack that left her with a bullet lodged in her skull last October. "This is a second life," she continued, "And I want to serve....