2.++Internet+Search

Carolyn Bonadonna
__Internet Search List__ Internet Sites 1. Kidsgeo.com – Geography for Kids, The Study of Our Earth Maps - [] This website includes information about map keys, scales, globes, projections, and much more. It is designed for kids to easily understand. It includes links to songs regarding different topics such as infrared sensing and satellites and includes many pictures to go along with each topic. This would be perfect for introducing a map lesson. 2. Teachkidshow.com – Teach your child how to read a map [] This is a good website for teachers wanting to implement a map lesson. I focused on the K-3 section as my group is creating a lesson plan for third graders. This site suggests opening up your lesson by creating a map of a familiar area with your class. It also suggests you create a key using familiar symbols. It explains this is also a good time to introduce the compass rose. It specifies that third graders are able to understand fancier maps so this is a good time to introduce world maps, road maps, and landform or physical maps. 3. National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure [] This website includes a variety of games for kids that require reading a map in order to win. Games include: Explore a Pyramid, Find the Sunken Treasure, Explore Mars, See GIS in Action, and Adventure Island. This website teaches children that reading maps can be fun and useful. On the same website, there’s a page that explains what maps are, mapmaking, GPS’s, GIS’s, the different types of maps, and their uses ([]).
 * The World of Miamipoia
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 * The World of Miamiopia is a interactive computer game that will help students learn about how to read and follow a map. At this site, students will get to create their own Miamiopian character and view all the locations on the map. Students will have the opportunity to explore the different locations in the World of Miamiopia.
 * Map Games
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 * At this website, your students have a vast amount of games to choose from to practice their map skills. Specifically, I have selected a map game called Geographic Continent Map Game. This game provides students with a series of hints to distinguish between the continents. After identifying the continent, the continent will show up in a specific color. At the end of the exercise, the student will be able to view the different color-coded continents.
 * Enchanted Learning: Geography
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 * Activity: Map Reading Activity #1
 * At this website, the students have a huge variety of different activities to choose from. In the activity that I selected, the students are provided with a map of a community. Below the map, there are questions for the students to answer. These questions are asking students where different places are located on the map.
 * Alex Harting**

=Jessica Goulart = Internet Sites: "I Like 2 Learn” [] This website provides great map quizzes of different parts of the world. The quizzes are set up as fun games but can also be printed out for a class. The maps focus on subjects from country location, to bodies of water, to mountains.

“Jefferson County School’s Social Studies Basic Skill Games” <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">This website has links to a lot of different resources for map skills, including interactive maps, videos, quizzes, and even a place to look up longitude and latitude coordinates of different places in the United States.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">“National Geographic Kids” <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">This site is very kid friendly and is definitely a site that students can use on their own. There are many different games that students can play and have fun with, while learning at the same time.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">“Google Maps” <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">This is an interactive way for students to explore our world from the comfort of the classroom. As simple as it is to type the place you’d like to visit, students are able to visit places around the world, and even see a satellite view of the location.

Internet Search List: <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] “The Search for Longitude” <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This site demonstrates to students how longitude and latitude are used in real life. They have a real-life instance where you are lost at sea and then presents you ways to use the time of day to determine the location of where you are. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] “Geography for Kids” <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This site can help the kids with learning geography in many ways. There are fun games that they can use to work on their knowledge. I liked the state capital game that there was. That could help them work on their capitals of all the States. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] “The Totally Free Children’s Learning Network” <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This could be a very useful website in the classroom. There are educational songs and movies for so many different subjects and lessons for the classroom. On the site there are also games for them to play. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[] <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Great song for teaching longitude and latitude...the site has many different songs that can be used in the classroom to help teach subjects
 * Casie Dwyer**

Internet Search List:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Anita Bean **

1. Mapzone. [|//http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/PagesHomeworkHelp///] This website is a colorful and attractive source for content on mapping skills including types of maps, symbols, understanding scales, and more. There is plenty of content, and there are fun games to reinforce and assess learning. The main reason I included this site is because it is based in the United Kingdom, and I think it would be a fun and interesting thing for students to see the similarities and differences between what mapping skills are taught in the UK and which are taught in the US. For example, most of the skills are the same, while many of the symbols are different. This is a very fitting observation for a mapping skills lesson.

2. From Stargazers to Starships.(item #5, Latitude and Longitude). [|//http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smap.htm//] This is a great site for teachers to use to refresh their own knowledge of latitude and longitude, and how degrees, minutes and seconds work on a map, etc. This information is presented on an adult level of sophistication, and is not for elementary students. I added this site to make sure I have a thorough understanding of latitude and longitude before I teach it, as questions from students about these can get complicated.

3. Map Your Neighborhood. []

This is a website for teachers, with a lesson plan on how to make a neighborhood map with students, using My Map Book by Sara Fane