National Geographic: Celebrate Geography Awareness Week

This resource is the portal to all the resources National Geographic provides for celebrating Geography Awareness Week, which occurs the third week of November. Find the toolkit, archives of previous celebrations, videos, and mapmaking...

Learn about geography in an entirely new way with short adventures for all ages. Each mission is an exciting and challenging exploration is which you will see the world in new ways.

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.

Young scholars learn about several different metaphors that have been used to describe cultural diversity in the United States. Then they choose a metaphor that represents today's diverse cultural landscape. Background information,...

Students read one of the following books: Minn of the Mississippi, Paddle-to-the-Sea, or Seabird, all by Holling C. Holling, and identify the five themes of geography as well as make a literature journal with chapter field notes. They...

Click-through facts-and-photo file about France's geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government.

Water is vital for survival, but how does it help global cultures flourish? Elementary and middle schoolers learn about the different cultures around the world that celebrate water and incorporate it into their festivals or traditions.

Click-through facts-and-photo file about Germany's geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government.

Follow this interactive overview to learn about this country's history, geography, nature, people, government; map and video included.