Geography Resources: Educational Resources: 
Other Resources

To suggest additions to our list of other educational resources, please contact Ken Foote.

State Geographic Alliances:

• The National Geographic Society's - Educational materials and Geographic Alliance Network. 
• Texas Alliance for Geographic Education
• "Mapping The World By Heart" by David J. Smith. Includes an alternate alliance list and geography resources.

Materials:

• On-line Course Materials in human and physical geography, geographic methods and techniques (including GIS), the history and philosophy of geography are all part of The Virtual Geography Department .
• Geography Discipline Network (GDN)
• From the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA): 
• The NCGIA Education Program
• University Level Materials
• K-12 Level Materials
• A Map Projection Tutorial brought to you by the British Columbia Government, Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks.
• Earth Balloon an interactive Social Studies/ Environmental/ Science outreach program used in teaching students of all ages about our physical earth and environment.
• Geography World at Lakeland High School, Jermyn, PA
• National Geographic Geography Education
• “Making Sense of Census 2000” teaching materials are available, free of charge. Just go to the Census in Schools section. The materials introduce students to Census 2000 with high-interest, grade-level appropriate activities designed to meet geography standards. 

Libraries:

• This Virtual Reference Desk maintained by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies links to Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, geographic name servers, and various other virtual library resources. 
• Also see our list of map collections

K-12:

• Armadillo's WWW Server at Rice University. 
• Center for Excellence in Education at Indiana University. 
• The JASON Project established by Robert Ballard. 
• TENET - Texas Education Network, UT Austin
• USGS Educational Resources
• Mathematics of Cartography is a high school mathematics unit by Cynthia Lanius.
• Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map  is maintained by the University of Tennessee. Intended for the pre-university crowd, Mapmaker discusses concepts such as scale, projection, and theme.
• Geo Teacher designed as resource for high school social studies students.
• School Center
• ARGUS (Activities and Readings in the Geography of the United States) active learning modules by the American Association of Geographers.
• Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Browse the world in a Virtual Classroom

Other Educational Resources:

• USGS map resources
• Research and Education Resources by Research and Management Systems, Inc. and Federal Information Exchange, Inc. Provides information on grants, scholarships, etc. 
• The Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union.
• The Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria, Australia
• Online Educational Resources by NASA
• Second Nature is a nonprofit environmental education organization
• A M Productions Inc. Video Library Produces and distributes GIS-related videos for educational institutions, government agencies and the private sector. GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Mapping and Cartography, GIS and the Internet, Soil and Water Resource Models, GIS in Forestry, GIS Overview / Theory / Historical and Geology and Mining Technology.
• Beyond Discovery: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a project of the National Academy of Sciences. It is a series of case studies that identify and trace origins of important recent technological and medical advances.
• Education and Teaching Resources from Cybergeo the first electronic European Journal of Geography. 
• The Event Inventor - Finding Your Longitude and Latitude
• Geographical Names of Canada from Natural Resources Canada
• Canada's SchoolNet
• Community Learning Network
• EducationDegree.com – Directory of Teaching Degree Programs
• Masters in Education - list of campus and online Masters in Education programs

Other Resource Lists and Directories:

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This page was last updated on February 29, 2012 - Darla Shatto