Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Zombie-Based Learning
A Bellevue middle-school teacher has created a curriculum to teach geography standards using a zombie story, complete with a zombie comic book. How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? Learn Geography, KPLU, April 10, 2013.
Now that takes brains!
Thursday, August 2, 2012
More U.S. Geography
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NationalAtlas.gov is a website from the U.S. Department of the Interior with hundreds of maps that you can print. You can choose the whole country or just one state, and choose different features to include (transportation, geology, environment, agriculture, cities, etc.).
There are also articles about American geography, including topics as diverse as the creation of the interstate highway system, the Civil War, congressional apportionment, and hurricanes. For a local story, see Mount Rainier: Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk.
This site has material for science, economics, history, and government—i.e., pages that would be fun to browse or that could help with a term paper. (Some students who don't want to read books might like looking at pictures and maps.)
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Geography Resources and Games
Table of Contents:
Explore the States (part of America's Story, from the Library of Congress).
Kids.gov links to states' websites. These links take you to pages with general information, often aimed at young people—for instance,
Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark (interactive site from National Geographic)
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.
National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.
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.
USA.gov links to Travel and Tourism Sites for U.S. States and Territories
GeoNet games (from the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin). You can choose US or the world.
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:
National Geographic's Geography Games.
National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.
Freerice.com subjects:
GeoNet games (from the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin). You can choose US or the world.
NASA has lots of material, suitable for different ages.
- United States
- World
- Geography Concepts and Geography Generally
Here are some resources for learning about states:
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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,
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.
National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, Learn About Your State includes a page of basic facts about each state.
USA.gov links to Travel and Tourism Sites for U.S. States and Territories
GeoNet games (from the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin). You can choose US or the world.
Here are some resources for world geography:
- 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.
National Geographic Atlas Puzzles. Choose a map, then see it turned into jigsaw pieces and put it back together.
Freerice.com subjects:
- Identify Countries on the Map
- World Capitals
- World Landmarks
- Flags of the World
Here are some sites for geography concepts and geography generally:
National Geographic GeoBee Quiz. Ten daily questions from the National Geographic Bee.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.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Freerice.com: Educational and Addictive (in a Good Way!)
Freerice.com is a game site that does good. When you play and get right answers, advertisers give to the United Nations World Food Programme (the world's largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger). You get the fun of doing well at the game, and people who need food get food.
The game is simple: you're asked a question and given four possible answers. If you guess the right one, you earn 10 grains of rice. If you guess wrong, you don't. Either way, you keep going.
The game is always challenging (but not too hard), because if you get a lot of questions right, it gives you harder questions, and if you get a lot of questions wrong, it gives you easier questions. So you always end up being at a level where you get some questions right and some questions wrong. It makes you want to try one more . . . and one more . . . and one more.
You can set up an account to keep track of how much rice you've won—and to challenge your friends!
You can choose from different subjects:
For younger students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, and Multiplication Table.
For older students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, Spanish (if they're taking Spanish!), and SAT. The SAT practice questions cover both language arts and math. Great practice!
Here's a video made by some high school students who really like Free Rice!
The game is simple: you're asked a question and given four possible answers. If you guess the right one, you earn 10 grains of rice. If you guess wrong, you don't. Either way, you keep going.
The game is always challenging (but not too hard), because if you get a lot of questions right, it gives you harder questions, and if you get a lot of questions wrong, it gives you easier questions. So you always end up being at a level where you get some questions right and some questions wrong. It makes you want to try one more . . . and one more . . . and one more.
You can set up an account to keep track of how much rice you've won—and to challenge your friends!
You can choose from different subjects:
HUMANITIES
- Famous Paintings
- Literature (This is literature from all around the world.)
TEST PREPARATION
For younger students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, and Multiplication Table.
For older students, I recommend English Vocabulary, English Grammar, Spanish (if they're taking Spanish!), and SAT. The SAT practice questions cover both language arts and math. Great practice!
Here's a video made by some high school students who really like Free Rice!
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