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To get your palette whet for this month's issue, first check out the results at http://geosurvey.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/ of the 2002 Geography Literacy Survey from National Geographic; it will make you think twice about how well your students have mastered those concepts! Also, be sure to bookmark another National Geographic site, XPEDITIONS http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/ to access the geography standards we all strive to teach. And now.....a great collection of geography resources!

Climate Map of the US
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate/states.fast.html
JAVA applet of all fifty states; click on areas of interest to learn more about climate in specific regions.

Geo Teacher
http://home.att.net/~rmmwms/geoteach/geoteacher.html
A research tool for students and geography links and other resources for high school; 600 links to resources, references, and lesson plans for geography and sociology.

Geographia
http://www.geographia.com/
Virtual destinations around the globe to help your students further experience the physical geography of the world around them.

Geonet
http://www.eduplace.com/geo/
Based on National Geography Standards, this game challenges students to apply knowledge of geography in a number of different contexts and can last up to 2 hours.

Map Machine
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
National Geographic presents this searchable collection of maps, also available by category. Check out the conservation maps to see something completely different.

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
http://pr.tennessee.edu/ut2kids/maps/map.html
Will Fontanez of the Cartographic Services Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has designed this exploration of cartography especially for students.

Maps
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/maptop.html
David Leveson of the Geography Department at Brooklyn College put together these straightforward tutorials on basic concepts in making and reading maps.

Mathematics of Cartography
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/
Well-done interdisciplinary tutorial on map making - not too heavy on the graphics either; from Rice University.

Theban Mapping Project
http://www.kv5.com/html/home.html
The process of mapping major monuments and burial sites along the west bank of the Nile, including the Valley of the Kings and KV5.

Tracks
http://www.ecb.org/tracks/
Multimedia presentation on U.S. history and geography with additional resources for purchase; nice clickable map, too.

Zip Code, Area Code, City, County & Time Zone Cross Refs
http://zip.langenberg.com/
Just type in the code and it will bring up all kinds of geographic and demographic data on a community or region - even zip code maps.

Where is That?
http://www.funbrain.com/where/
Funbrain game in which maps come up on the screen and students must identify countries, states and capitals.

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