Geography Resources and Games

Table of Contents:

• United States
• World
• Geography Concepts and Geography Generally

Here are some resources for learning about states:



 Explore the States (part of America's Story, from the Library of Congress).

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Kids.gov links to states' websites. These links take you to pages with general information, often aimed at young people—for instance,

• About Arizona for Kids
• Montana's A Student Guide to the Study of the State
• Texas Senate Kids

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Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark (interactive site from National Geographic)

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MapStats for Kids (from FedStats, the statistics site with data from lots of federal agencies). Games show you how to represent data (like number of farms or average income) on maps. They can help you practice finding states on the map, and they're also good practice at working with numbers.

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National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.

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Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, Learn About Your State includes a page of basic facts about each state.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government games includes Place the State, a great way to learn where all the states are.

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USA.gov links to Travel and Tourism Sites for U.S. States and Territories

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GeoNet games (from the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin). You can choose US or the world.

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Here are some resources for world geography:

CIA World Factbook. The Central Intelligence Agency publishes this book (and website) every year to offer basic information about all the countries in the world. Includes:

• Maps of world regions, the world, and the United States. These are great maps to print or download!
• Flags of the World 
• Country comparison pages. You can get rankings of all the countries based on different statistics, such as:
• Population. China has the world's largest population, with over 1.3 billion people. What countries are #2 and #3? What country has the fewest people?
• Life expectancy.
• Prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
• Unemployment rate.
• Per capita income.
• Number of mobile phones.
• How much money is spent on the military.

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National Geographic's Geography Games.

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National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.

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Freerice.com subjects:

• Identify Countries on the Map
• World Capitals
• World Landmarks
• Flags of the World

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GeoNet games (from the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin). You can choose US or the world.

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Here are some sites for geography concepts and geography generally:

National Geographic GeoBee Quiz. Ten daily questions from the National Geographic Bee. 

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NASA has lots of material, suitable for different ages.

• Window to Earth uses cool pictures to illustrate basic concepts like "cape" and "glacier."
• A series of short videos (about 1 min. each) shows features of each continent from space.
• Lists of materials and games about earth science for grades K-8 are here. (Most of the games seem to be aimed at young students.)
• Material about earth science for grades 9-12 and adults is here.