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Human and World Geography
Teacher and Student Web Resources
- http://home.comcast.net/~dboals1/geog.html (Social Studies Teacher site)
- http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html (Links to geography sites all over the world)
- http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html ("Geography World")
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (National Geographic online)
- http://www.usgs.gov/ (U.S. Geological Service- great info on physical geography, check out their "This Dynamic Earth" section)
- http://worldclimate.com/ (location and temperature of nearly every major city)
- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ (CIA's info on every country)
- http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/contents.html (virtual geography department with links to every topic in geography- best feature is the "virtual fieldtrips" students can take)
- http://www.geography-site.co.uk/ (The Geography Exchange- Resources and links submitted by teachers, over 700 links available!)
- http://www.cuyahogalibrary.com/onlineresources/websites/Geography.htm (has some activities involving distances and maps, also contains the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN))
- http://geography.miningco.com/ ("ABOUT Geography" Website- Links and articles on physical and cultural geography)
- http://www.geographyhigh.connectfree.co.uk/teachersroomteachersites.html (Another list of teacher websites with links)
- http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html (Census Bureau's population statistics for the world)
- http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html (Library of Congress- "Global Gateway for World Cultures and Resources")
- http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/area.html (World Area Studies Internet Resources)
- http://eawc.evansville.edu/ (Ancient World Cultures resources)
- http://www.cultures.com/ (This site is devoted to cultures, living and ancient, and the promotion of world communication and world peace.)
- http://www.geocities.com/virtualresearch/worldcultures.html (Links to culture past and present of every country in the world)
- http://www.howard.k12.md.us/socst/7-links.htm (Middle School Level with links to world cultures)
- http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldCultures/index.text.html (Get to know cultures from all over the world)
- http://www.prb.org/ (Population Reference Bureau- informing people about the population dimensions of important social, economic, and political issues. Our mission is to be the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications)
- http://home.att.net/~geographyclassroom/culturalgeography.html - "Geo Teachers Geography Classroom", links to cultural and human geography websites
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html - Library of Congress' "Portals to the World" contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ - Library of Congress' "Country Study"
- http://www.library.uu.nl/geosource/index.html - "Geosource", web resources for human geography, physical geography, geoscience and environmental science
- http://cp.settlement.org/english/index.html - "Cultural Profiles Project", from Canada, each cultural profile provides an overview of life and customs in the profiled country.
- http://www.un.org/english/ - United Nations website
- http://www.popco.org/- Population Coalition, promote awareness of the impacts of population pressures and over-consumption on a sustainable future.
- http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.asp - United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project
- http://www.adherents.com/ - collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations, the religions of the world are enumerated here
- http://mel.org/index.jsp - Michigan "Elibrary", click on "Geography and Travel", will link you to hundreds of physical and human geography sites
- http://www.historyteacher.net/GlobalStudies/GlobalStudiesMainPage.htm - from History Teacher.net , click on "Web Links and Research Sources"
- http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=geography - Sites related to geography and its associated disciplines. Sites should contribute useful resources, link collections or original work, that are of use to teachers, students and other interested people
- http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php - a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
- http://www.knowledgehouse.info/sub_geo.html - An extensive list of web-based resources grouped by subject
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