If you’re studying geography in your classroom, you won’t want to miss these 149 great websites. I have them divided as:
- General
- Biomes
- California regions (only because that’s where my teaching centers)
- Global
- Natural Disasters
- Survival in the…
- Jungle
- Desert
- Mountains
- Prairie
- Ocean
- General survival websites
- Virtual tours (some great sites here)
Enjoy!
BTW–Click here for updates to list.
- 2-minute geology
- BatchGeo—map locations
- Breathing earth–the environment
- Continents explained (with humor)
- Dig hole through the earth with Google Earth
- Digipuzzles
- Dynamic Earth–interactive
- Earth science animations
- Earth Science Digital Library
- Forest—Walk Through a Forest
- Geography for Kids
- Geography game
- Geography game—geospy
- Geography Games
- Geography Games II
- Geography games–from World Geography Games
- Geography games—Nat’l Geographic
- Geography Pop-ups
- Geography quiz—Seterra
- Geography—find letters around the world
- Geography Quiz
- Geography—geonet game
- Geogreeting—find letters around the world
- Geoguesser–guess where in the world you are based on Street View clues
- Geologic history
- Geologic movies–great and fun
- Geology
- Google Earth—free download site
- Google Map Maker
- Google Maps Gallery–maps of history, reality, more
- Habitats for animals
- Learn the states
- Maps you’ll never see anywhere else
- Maps—fun game from NG
- Maps—Make them
- Maps—more games from NG
- Ology Sites
- Rainforest collection
- Rainforest Websites Videos
- Rainforest—3 games
- Rainforest—great but a bit of reading
- Rainforest—Jungle Journey
- Scribble Maps—edit maps
- States games
- USA Puzzle
- Virtual tours
- Volcano Adventure
Biomes
- Adventure Island
- Antarctice Environ—find the animals
- Biomes of the World
- Breathing earth–the environment
- Build a habitat
- Build a Prairie
- Extreme Organisms on Earth
- Forest Life
- Forests
- Habitat Game
- Habitats—create one
- Landform Detectives—cool game
- Life—the Game–colorful
- Observe Different Climate Zones
- Ocean Explorations—life
- Ocean Currents—video from NASA
- Ocean Safari
- Ocean Tracks
- Ocean Videos
- Ocean Waves–video
- World’s Biomes
- Virtual tours
CA Regions
Globe (lat and long)
- Earth alerts
- Explore the Colorado River
- Find your Longitude
- Geography Games
- Geography Games II
- Geography Pop-ups
- GeoSpy Game
- Glen Canyon Dam
- Latitude-Longitude Map Game
- Latitude-Longitude Quiz
- Learn the states
- Map activity
- Map Labeling Activity
- Place the state on a map
- Rivers
- Rivers Seen from Space
- USA Puzzle
- World Geography
- Zambezi River
Natural Disasters
- Avalanches
- Earthquake simulations
- Earthquakes
- Earthquakes for Kids
- Earthquakes–USGS
- Flood—hugefloods.com
- Hurricanes
- Natural disaster videos
- Natural disasters—National Geographic
- Natural disasters–resources
- Perfect Story
- Savage Earth
- Storm Chasing
- Tornadoes
- Tornadoes II
- Tsunamis
- Volcano Adventure
- Volcano Underwater
- Volcano videos
- Volcanoes
Survival
In the Jungle
In the Desert
In the Mountains
- Survive a snowstorm
- Everest and beyond
- The Andes
- An avalanche
- How to find water
- How to avoid hypothermia
In the Prairies
In the Ocean
In the Rivers
General
- Build a Tornado
- Build a Volcano
- Fear—Man vs. Wild
- How to survive anything
- How to survive—lots of them
- Man vs. Wild—the game
- Survive in the woods
Virtual Tours
- 360 Panorama of the world
- A Collection of Virtual Field Trips
- Google World of Wonders
- Pompeii—via Google Earth
- Sistine Chapel
- Virtual tour—White House on GE
- Virtual tours
- Virtual tour of America—via BiplaneVirtual Field Trips
- Virtual tour (with pictures) of a zoo
- Virtual tour–undersea
Image credit: Paulo Ordoveza
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.