This neat collection of interactive historical maps of American history, Latin American history, African history and European history was developed by the University of Oregon. As explained on the site, it is “…designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or illustrations of historical events, demonstrations, and dynamics.”
This is an excellent history and geography resources that helps your kids visualize the many historical changes in colonization, government and influence of countries throughout the history of these regions.
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Vemaps.com offers over 1000 freely downloadable vector maps for personal and educational use. Their archive is easily navigated, and is divided into 7 main categories (countries of the continent). All countries in the archive are represented in alphabet order. Both black & white and color maps are available.
Today we wanted to remind you of National Geographic’s great website for young readers and explorers. Right now they have a special emphasis on winter, with videos of Polar Bear habitat and some amazing snow sculptures. There are loads of interesting videos, articles, games and puzzles for kids of all ages in this great site!
The Pulse of the Planet daily radio program offers free mp3 downloads, exploring the world of sound in nature, culture and science, with audio adventures, world music, extraordinary sound portraits, science diaries, and nature ring-tones.
We are all familiar with flag charts, usually arranged alphabetically, but this one is superimposed onto a world map so that students can see details that are not obvious from the usual charts. By placing the flags geographically we begin to see new patterns, like bunches of near-neighbour countries (eg in Africa, Scandinavia and around Australia) having very simiar colourings and shapes. This fascinating map is very high resoluction, and can be downloaded or blown up to view details and specific areas of the world.