GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM

  
 CURRICULUM MATERIALS: LESSON PLANS 
See selected lesson plans at National Geographic Society's Geography Education
	This NGS site separates plans by grouped grade levels: K-4, 5-8, and 9-12
Register with the Florida Geographic Alliance, then click "Resources":
	Several hundred teacher-created & tested activities are displayed and explained
Using the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), try AskERIC: Geography
	A fine selection of over fifty lessons covering geography for grades K-12
Geography lessons from the Gateway to Educational Materials: GEM: Geography
	Try the Search function on this Dept. of Education site to narrow results
Geography Awareness Week is celebrated during the 3rd week in November.
	The year 2003 theme is "Geography Action! Habitats: Home Sweet Home"
Links to Year 2000 Census materials are at Census in Schools
	Different grade-level suggestions interweave other disciplines with geography
University-level materials are linked through the Virtual Geography Department
	Usefully subdivided into topics such as Cartography and Virtual Field Trips

  
 CURRICULUM MATERIALS: MAPS 
Outline maps of hemispheres, continents, countries?  Link to the Eduplace Maps site
	from publisher Houghton Mifflin.
Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas, Austin, offers full-color Online Maps
	for many world locales and a fine alphabetical list of Outline Map Links.
Customize outline maps on National Geographic's Atlas - Xpeditions site.
Many attractive U.S. state maps are available at Color Landform Atlas.
Register with Rand McNally's K12 Online for maps and lesson plans.
An informative site about GIS: Geographic Information Systems and lesson plans for
	grades 4-8 is at GIS in Education.

  
 CURRICULUM MATERIALS: FLAGS, SYMBOLS 
Try 50states.com for quick state summaries and good links.
On the countryreports.org site you'll find flags, anthems, and maps.

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