eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Ocean Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens When Continents Collide?

For Students 9th - 10th
Tens of millions of years ago, plate tectonics set North and South America on an unavoidable collision course that would change the face of the Earth and spell life or death for thousands of species. Juan D. Carrillo explains the massive...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: South America Interactive Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map explores the continent and countries of South America. Through political, physical, population, and climate map layers and individual country views, learn about the boundaries that define the continent's 12 sovereign...
Website
Extreme Science

Extreme Science: Coldest Place on Earth: Antarctica

For Students 3rd - 8th
A description of the extreme climate of the Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, as well as the windiest. It is also the highest continent, and considered to be a desert as it has little rainfall. Includes information about the...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How North America Got Its Shape

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter J. Haproff explains how it took millions of years and some incredible plate tectonics to forge the continent we know today. [4:57]
Website
Other

Cool Antarctica: Pictures, Information, and Travel Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete look at the continent of Antarctica. You can view pictures, utilize a fact file index, and get a historical timeline.
Website
University of California

Ucmp: The Cretaceous Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the UCMP Berkeley provides information about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the age of the dinosaurs and the continued break up of the continent of Pangaea.
Website
National Library of France

National Library of France: Heaven and Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
Unit Plan
Other

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Teachers' Guide to African Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to African art answers key questions of interest to any student of the subject. Covers diversity of the continent's geography and cultures, the functions of African art objects, the aesthetics of African art, and traditional and...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: The Archaean Eon

For Students 9th - 10th
Journey into the past while reading this comprehensive overview of the Archaean Eon that covers topics such as early continents and oceans, first life on Earth, Earth's atmosphere, fossil evidence, and plate tectonics.
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Nkrumah

For Students 9th - 10th
Kwame Nkrumah, a former leader in Ghana, writes his concept of a freedom in Africa following years of European rule on the continent.
Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Bee

For Students K - 1st
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: All About Plate Tectonics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Simple discussion of plate tectonics and Pangaea. Includes maps and interactives.
Handout
World InfoZone

World Info Zone

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: Political Borders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson in which young scholars explore the concept of borders and regions by examining culture and physical location and determine how and where borders should be placed. Lesson contains two activities with maps.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Language and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
AP Human Geography course unit on Language and Religion compares world language, religion and looks at conflict within. Comprehensive resources, multi-media sources and interactive material.
Article
World Atlas

World Atlas: South America

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a description of the geography of South America, the 4th largest continent, with maps and photos.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Primary Technology Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This hands-on, inquiry-based lesson combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Young scholars will have the...
Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 2,000-mile trek across a continent-with no idea what awaits you on the other side. Tell your students to put on their traveling shoes and prepare for the journey of their lives! In this lesson, students compare imagined travel...
Article
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists: About Antarctica

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise article highlighting the environment of the last continent, Antarctica.
Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Ring of Fire

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students identify plate boundaries as well as continents, countries, and bodies of water to become familiar with an area known as the "Ring of Fire."
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Welcome to My World!

For Teachers 2nd
Understand and use basic map concepts and skills.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Africa: Teacher's Guide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the world of Africa through these teacher's guides. This site features teacher tools for middle school age students.