Using Technology in Geography Instruction

Various Geographic Education Links

National Geography Standards
Geography for Life National Geography Standards 1994

National Council for Geography Education
http://www.ncge.org/
 
National Geographic Expeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/

 
National Geographic Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

 
Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/

 
Web Geography for Kids
http://www.unc.edu/~jmaxim/web_geography_for_kids.htm

Basic Data Links

CIA
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/index.html

Video Links

UnitedStreaming
Today Show
Google Video
http://video.google.com/videosearch?ie=UTF8&z=4&om=1&hl=en&sa=N&tab=lv

Map Resources

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/

National Geographic MapMachine

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
 
eMaps-U.S. History
http://socialstudies.com/c/product.html?nocache@1+s@puwaxg6aKM90E+record@SS246808

eMaps-Geography
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/product.html?record@TF39221+s@puwaxg6aKM90E

Google Earth Resources

Google Earth
http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

Google Earth Lessons
http://www.gelessons.com/lessons/

Ogle Earth (combines Google Earth w/United Streaming)
http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/10/google_for_educ.html

Google Earth Poster & Lessons
http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html

http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

Scholastic Google Earth Plans
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/exploreyourearth/

Emints
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001672.shtml

Teacher Exchange
http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.phprequest=cmVzb3VyY2UuZnVsbHZpZXc&resourceId=12741

Google Earth Education Community (AZ)
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm

Cezanne Bio Example
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=310900

GIS Resources

ArcVoyager Data Sets (Handout of Existing Data Sets)
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/voyager/geo_topx.pdf

ArcVoyager Student Directions (awesome, but for Michigan-should be adapted to IL)
http://www.emich.edu/visit/arcview01.htm

Earth Exploration Toolbook
http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/chapters.html

EMU Resources (VISIT Workshop)
http://igre.emich.edu/visit/Resource/Instruction_Manual.pdf

http://igre.emich.edu/visit/GIS_for_teachers/GIS_for_teachers1.htm

GIS2GPS (Charlie Fitzpatrick Workshop & IL GIS Data)
http://www.gis2gps.com/GIS/gis.html

http://www.gis2gps.com/newclasses/2007classes/introgis.htm

http://www.gis2gps.com/grantinfo/grantinfo.htm

My World GIS
http://www.myworldgis.org/about/

Geode Professional Development
http://www.geode.northwestern.edu/investigations/development.html#benefits

Geode Initiative
http://www.geode.northwestern.edu/project.htm