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Kids World Travel Guide: Continent Facts
Provides interesting and fun facts on the continents of the world.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Top 12 Coldest Countries in the World
Provides brief descriptions of the twelve coldest countries in the world.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Continents
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies the 7 continents of the world and reviews with Activotes.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kid's Games: Guess the Country
Guess the world country from a number of clues in this online game.
ABCya
Ab Cya: World Bingo
World Bingo is a great way for children and adults to test their knowledge on the different countries of the world! With questions ranging from things like capitals, flags, and landmarks, you're bound to learn something new!
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Canton Public Library: Countries
This public library resource allows users to access sites on the web devoted to geography topics for all ages.
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Guia Del Mundo
A valuable resource to help students find information about countries. It also provides an interactive atlas.
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Madagascar
Offers an excellent online resource and country profile of the Southern African island of Madagascar, background overview, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the island's culture, history, geography, economy, environment,...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers
Do you know who Afonso de Albuquerque was? Do you know where Robert de LaSalle was from or where Jacques Cartier sailed? Enchanted Learning's A-to-Z list of explorers lets you browse through a large collection of biographical notes on...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Places in the Park
Modeling the use of maps in and out of school can help students to recognize the value of maps and gain confidence with them. Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before...
World InfoZone
World Info Zone
Detailed, comprehensive information on countries and people all over the world. Great tool for discovering facts on world issues, seeing photos, and just exploring the world in general. Also includes quizzes based on the website's content.
University of Texas at Austin
Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection
Maps from all over the world can be printed from this site. Find historical maps of the world; thematic maps; and world, continent, country, state, and county maps for your use.
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Nation Master
A vast quantity of data has been collected here for comparing countries on, as the site says, 'just about anything.' There are over 300 countries, as well as over 40 groupings of countries based on their commonalities. There are...
Colorado State University
Colorado State University Libraries: Garst Collection: Animal Geography
Interactive map for discovering which animals live on which continent.
National Geographic
National Geographic: My Wonderful World: World Wall Maps (Pdf)
Make your own full color or black and white mosaic wall map on your own printer. World maps, continents, Asian regions, and oceans are available for downloading, printing, and assembling.
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Asia Society: Policy
A comprehensive storehouse of all types of information on Asia, both current and past: maps and statistics, Asian food, travel guides, photographs, articles, timelines, and more. Asia Source is the work of the Asia Society, a national...
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Regional and World Maps
Website from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provides interactive reference material for regional and world maps in the World Factbook Library. Students and teachers can search for information about any country in the world.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The World Game
Play the World Game to become familiar with continents, oceans, countries, and states.
SMART Technologies
Smart: World Map
This lesson features a world map with labeled countries, a global map, and an interactive map of the seven continents.
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Map: Rulers
An interactive map to pull up rulers of nations. Click on a country and a historical list of rulers will show.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: The Netherlands
Click-through facts-and-photo file about the geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government of the Netherlands. Includes a map of the country that pinpoints its European location on the western coast of the continent.
Scholastic
Scholastic: History of Women's Suffrage
This site summarizes the history of women's suffrage throughout various countries and continents, including: United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Africa, etc. It also briefly includes the...
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The True Size
In an effort to illustrate the spatial concepts of maps, this program provides the ability to select countries or continents and move them over others to better visualize the sizes of each of them.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: Asian Countries and the Continent of Asia
Learn about the geography and the countries of Asia. Facts such as flags, maps, exports, natural resouces, people, languages.