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Atlas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas

Refresh your classroom maps, or use these printable maps for student exercises. Select world, continents, countries, or regions, with basic or detailed maps, and with or without country borders.
Ben's Guide To Us. Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov
Click on the games & activities links to access interactive games for map practice.
Blank Outline Maps of Countries & Continents of the World
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm
Click on the alphabetical listing to find your country & print off a blank map.
Blank Outline Maps of the Fifty States of the United States
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxusx.htm
Click on the alphabetical listing to find your state & print off a blank map.
Collection Connections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/map/index.html
Maps from 1500-2003.
Enchanted Learning Geography
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/mapreading
Scroll DOWN past the header!
A collection of geography pages, printouts, and activities for students.
Interactive Landforms Map
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/biomes.htm
World Biomes - Plateau, Valley, Isthmus, Strait, Channel, Pennisula, Archipelago. No need to register.
Interactive World Map
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/countriescode2.htm
All kinds of activities to learn about world locations. No need to register.
Interactive U.S.A. Map
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/stateimageindex.htm
State, landforms, landmarks, major cities, national parks. No need to register.
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide
Access to all of their collections.
Map Adventures
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapadv.htm
Basic Info- Different views, symbols, directions, grids & reading to scale. GREAT SITE!!!
Map Your Schoolyard
http://education.usgs.gov/schoolyard/MapSketch.html
A good way to learn about maps is to make and use a map of a familiar area. This exercise will walk you thru the steps of converting an ariel picture of your school into a paper map.

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Practice for the National Geography Bee
Online Map Puzzles
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Select the US on-line map puzzle to check placement of the states in the nation.
Outline Maps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps
The Americas, Physical Maps, the World, the Continents, Eastern Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Climates, with or without labels... Find great maps to download here for classroom use throughout the school year.
Place the State
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
Test your skill - interactive placement
What Do Maps Show?
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapsshow.htm
Introduction to Maps - How to read & learn from a map. What is a Topographic map?
Where is THAT?
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
FUNBRAIN will show you maps. For each screen, identify the correct country (or state).
Compiled by Mary Lou Baldwin
Technology Facilitator
checked12/07