Lesson Links AskAsia is an American site that provides online resources and lesson plans for Asian and Asian American K-12 education. The site offers lesson plans, maps, and resources. All the lessons are not relevant for BC but there are some good lesson ideas that could be adapted for BC classrooms. Canadian
Communities Atlas
is an Internet project
that has schools across Canada create community atlas websites
which are linked to the National Atlas of Canada. The atlas is
structured around physical, economic and human geography. If you
are interested in participating you can easily fill out an online
form, otherwise the resource is available for you and your students
to use. Geography
12 is a BC
web site that is based on the BC geography curriculum. The site
is still under construction but it does offer a course outline,
information on video and print resources, field studies and trips,
post-secondary information, Ministry information, and links to
geography web pages, television programs, and a lesson exchange.
Geography Lesson Plans contains about 20 lesson plans that are both elementary and secondary. National Geographic has an Educators' section that contains a MapMachine, and lesson ideas such as Fighting Cholera with Maps, and Look You're Wearing Geography. Many of the classroom ideas are American but you can modify them for a Canadian classrooms so you might get some good ideas from it. There's also a free newsletter if you would like to e-mail them and request it. Sir
Charles Tupper Secondary School's Geography
page contains links
to mapping and weather sites.
UBC
Department of Geography
has links to resources,
IRP information, and lesson plans for K-12 Geography. This link
will take you to their main page, from there go to Department
Information and then to K-12 School Liaison.
Volcano Lesson Plans has 14 lesson plans or activities on volcanoes.
Resources A-to-Z Geography comes from Discovery and World Book. It is as an easy to use site suitable for students. Canadian
Geographic Online is
the online version of the magazine. It contains links to some
of the articles in the magazines back to 1989, and a searchable
Article Index. The GeoMaps page contains 18 maps that graphically
represent Canadian statistics on such topics as gun distribution,
charitable giving, UFO Hotspots in Canada, and time zone oddities.
GeoMaps also includes brief explanations of the maps, links to
sources used to make the maps, and other books, articles, and
web sites of related interest. GeoNews is fairly current and it
contains geography-related news, and is arranged by month, and
you can also look at the archives for the past year.
Canadian
Geographical Names: Origins Page is
a Schoolnet page that contains information on place names in Canada.
It has sections on provinces and territories, cities, explorers,
aboriginal communities, and a Teachers' Aid page.
CIA: The World Factbook contains general information on every country in the world including maps, population, current issues, and more. EduPlace:
Maps of the World contains a variety of maps available
for download (physical, historical, political, etc.) Geographical
Names of Canada comes
from Natural Resources Canada, and it allows you to search geographical
names, and provides you with up to 30 attributes for that place.
Great
Globe Gallery is a huge site with numerous images of different
types of globes. These globes range from historical to political
to scientific to some others which I don't quite understand. If
you're looking for anything globe-related, this is definitely
the site for you. Historical
Atlas of Canada is
an online project which is associated with the excellent series
of print atlases of the same name. It is probably the best collection
of Canadian historical maps online, and the site lists its key
features as interactive maps, graphs, and texts that are often
downloadable or printable, as well as curriculum-based content
and learning activities. The site contains the following sections:
National Perspectives - Origins and Exploration, National Perspectives
- Growth and Change, National Perspectives - The Economy and Society,
Defining Episodes, Regional Patterns - The East, and Regional
Patterns - The West and North. Some of the sections are still
under construction, but the site is definitely worth a look.
How Far Is It? is a handy little site that lets you enter the name of two locations, and determine the distance between them. It also provides a link to a map showing the locations. Library of Congress: Country Studies is the " on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the US Department of Army." You can search or browse countries, and find out all sorts of useful information. National
Atlas of Canada has a page of links on its Teaching Resources
page, and the information from National Atlas on Schoolnet will
also be moving to that site soon. National
Geographic is a commercial site but it contains a lot
of interesting stuff. The site is divided into the following sections:
Interactive Features, Travel,
Adventure & Exploration, Maps, Photography,
News, Kids, Education, Forums, Live
Events, and Exhibitions. The Education section has
online activities, printable maps, lesson plans, news story of
the day, a teachers forum, and more. This site is definitely worth
a look. Outline Maps contains basic black and white outline maps of the continents and various countries. Sir
Charles Tupper: Geography 12 Students' Reference URLs
has links for students
in the following topics: Weather; Mapping; Tectonic,
Volcano, and Earthquake, University Websites, BC
High School Sites, and General Education. This would
be a good resource to pass along to students.
United Nations Cartographic Section: Maps and Geographic Information Resources contains 100+ general maps in PDF format (although there are no North American maps), peacekeeping maps, 2 thematic maps (world in 1945, and world today), geographical names page, and links to other UN sites for more geographic information. US State Department Background Notes contains a lot of fairly up-to-date information on countries. The information is fairly basic and easy to access. You'll get background notes in the following sections: Profile, People, Government, Political Conditions, Economy, Foreign Relations, US Relations, Travel & Business, and Geographic Learning Site. You might have to watch out for some US bias, but it does have fairly current information on a lot of countries. US State Department - Travel Warnings is interesting because the site provides you with official travel warning, and consular information sheets on just about every country imaginable. It was interesting to read the Canadian sheet just to see how Canada is viewed. Weather Office from Environment Canada. The site contains Weather Conditions for Canadian provinces and territories, and in selected cities in the US and the World. The site also a contains Satellite, Lightning, and Radar images (some animated), and an illustration of the jet stream over North America. There are also articles on various weather phenomenon, and a fairly good glossary. World Population Clock comes from the US Bureau of Census, and it gives the world population now, and for previous months. Please report any dead links.
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