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140+ Websites for K-8 Geography/Geology

geographyIf 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.

  1. 2-minute geology
  2. BatchGeo—map locations
  3. Breathing earth–the environment
  4. Continents explained (with humor)
  5. Dig hole through the earth with Google Earth
  6. Digipuzzles
  7. Dynamic Earth–interactive
  8. Earth science animations
  9. Earth Science Digital Library
  10. Forest—Walk Through a Forest
  11. Geography game
  12. Geography game—geospy
  13. Geography Games
  14. Geography Games II
  15. Geography games–from World Geography Games
  16. Geography games—Nat’l Geographic
  17. Geography Pop-ups
  18. Geography quiz—Seterra
  19. Geography—find letters around the world
  20. Geography Quiz
  21. Geography—geonet game
  22. Geogreeting—find letters around the world
  23. Geoguesser–guess where in the world you are based on Street View clues
  24. Geologic history
  25. Geologic movies–great and fun
  26. Geology
  27. Google Earth—free download site
  28. Google Map Maker
  29. Google Maps Gallery–maps of history, reality, more
  30. Habitats for animals
  31. Learn the states
  32. Maps you’ll never see anywhere else
  33. Maps—fun game from NG
  34. Maps—Make them
  35. Maps—more games from NG
  36. Ology Sites
  37. Rainforest collection
  38. Rainforest Websites Videos
  39. Rainforest—3 games
  40. Rainforest—great but a bit of reading
  41. Rainforest—Jungle Journey
  42. Scribble Maps—edit maps
  43. States games
  44. USA Puzzle
  45. Virtual tours
  46. Volcano Adventure

Biomes

  1. Adventure Island
  2. Antarctice Environ—find the animals
  3. Biomes of the World
  4. Breathing earth–the environment
  5. Build a habitat
  6. Build a Prairie
  7. Extreme Organisms on Earth
  8. Forest Life
  9. Forests
  10. Habitat Game
  11. Habitats—create one
  12. Landform Detectives—cool game
  13. Life—the Game–colorful
  14. Observe Different Climate Zones
  15. Ocean Explorations—life
  16. Ocean Currents—video from NASA
  17. Ocean Safari
  18. Ocean Tracks
  19. Ocean Videos
  20. Ocean Waves–video
  21. World’s Biomes
  22. Virtual tours

CA Regions

  1. CA Landscape
  2. CA’s Regions
  3. Images of CA Regions

Globe (lat and long)

  1. Earth alerts
  2. Explore the Colorado River
  3. Find your Longitude
  4. Geography Games
  5. Geography Games II
  6. Geography Pop-ups
  7. GeoSpy Game
  8. Glen Canyon Dam
  9. Latitude-Longitude Map Game
  10. Latitude-Longitude Quiz
  11. Learn the states
  12. Map activity
  13. Map Labeling Activity
  14. Place the state on a map
  15. Rivers
  16. Rivers Seen from Space
  17. USA Puzzle
  18. World Geography
  19. Zambezi River

Natural Disasters

  1. Avalanches
  2. Earthquake simulations
  3. Earthquakes
  4. Earthquakes for Kids
  5. Earthquakes–USGS
  6. Flood—hugefloods.com
  7. Hurricanes
  8. Natural disaster videos
  9. Natural disasters—National Geographic
  10. Natural disasters–resources
  11. Perfect Story
  12. Savage Earth
  13. Storm Chasing
  14. Tornadoes
  15. Tornadoes II
  16. Tsunamis
  17. Volcano Adventure
  18. Volcano Underwater
  19. Volcano videos
  20. Volcanoes

Survival

In the Jungle

  1. Jungle survival
  2. Orangutan Island game
  3. Life and death in the jungle
  4. Jungle
  5. Survive a rainforest

In the Desert

  1. Desert survival
  2. Deserts
  3. Moab Desert
  4. Canyon obstacle

In the Mountains

  1. Survive a snowstorm
  2. Everest and beyond
  3. The Andes
  4. An avalanche
  5. How to find water
  6. How to avoid hypothermia

In the Prairies

  1. Savanna predators
  2. How to find dinner
  3. How to send a smoke signal

In the Ocean

  1. Life and Death
  2. Survive a shipwreck

In the Rivers

  1. Raging Rapids

 General

  1. Build a Tornado
  2. Build a Volcano
  3. Fear—Man vs. Wild
  4. How to survive anything
  5. How to survive—lots of them
  6. Man vs. Wild—the game
  7. Survive in the woods

Virtual Tours

  1. 360 Panorama of the world
  2. A Collection of Virtual Field Trips
  3. Google World of Wonders
  4. Pompeii—via Google Earth
  5. Sistine Chapel
  6. Virtual tour—White House on GE
  7. Virtual tours
  8. Virtual tour of America—via BiplaneVirtual Field Trips
  9. Virtual tour (with pictures) of a zoo
  10. 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.

Author: Jacqui
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, an Amazon Vine Voice, 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.
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