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Read Works

Read Works: North America Jamaica: A Beautiful Island With a Dark History

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Jamaica and its history of slavery. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Geography Games: Capital Cities of North America

For Students 1st - 9th
Play this fun geography map game to learn about the capital cites of the countries of North America.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: World Geog: North America: The United States and Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
World Geography learning module on the United States and Canada explores similarities and differences in the population, climate, resources and evolution of the two countries.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Archaeology in Arctic North America

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource regarding the Arctic region and a look at some of the recent archaeological projects there. The introduction offers a short look at the geography and history of the area.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Geography Games: Flags of North America

For Students 1st - 9th
Play this fun geography map game to learn about the flags of the countries of North America.
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Other

Seterra: North and Central America: Countries Map Quiz Game

For Students 6th - 8th
Test your knowledge and see if you can place all the countries in North America in their correct spot!
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Geography

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from Enchanted Learning, you can take a quiz, printout a map of the United States of America, and see where the Middle East is located in the world. Links are also provided for additional information.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Geography for Kids: North American

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about North American countries and geography. The flags, maps, exports, natural resources, and languages of North American are found on this website.
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US Government Publishing Office

Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Our Nation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cartoon Ben Franklin guides students through a simple geography lesson about the seven continents, North America, the fifty states, and Washington, D.C.
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Other

Geography Quiz: Northern South American Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Have fun trying to locate famous cities in northern South America on a map. Do you know where Paramaribo is? See how much you know!
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Graphic
Curated OER

Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: North America

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Labeled map of the major geographical features of North America.
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Interactive
World Geography Games

World Geography Games: Capitals of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Match the country in the Americas with its capital city.
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Interactive
National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: In the Spotlight: Cuba

For Students 6th - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about Cuba's geography, nature, history, people, culture, and government.
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Graphic
Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: World Factbook: Regional and World Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Maps of major areas of the world can be downloaded here. The maps have excellent detail and are in color.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: World Map

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson features a world map with labeled countries, a global map, and an interactive map of the seven continents.
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Interactive
Kidport

Kidport: United States of America Geography

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site contains a fun way to learn about the states within the United States. Click on the state that you want to learn more about and it provides facts, geographic landmarks, points of interest, major industries, a quiz and more.
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National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: The Red Desert

For Students 3rd - 8th
One of the last remaining high-desert ecosystems in North America, this resource presents an overview of the Red Desert in southern Wyoming offering its geographic features, local wildlife, and the threats to the lands.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Carver, Jonathan 1781, New Map of North America

For Students 9th - 10th
"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories...
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Other

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. The collection...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Continents

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Brightly colored printouts, maps, and graphics on the greatest land masses on earth. See how continental drift works, look up extremes, label maps, learn about latitude, longitude and other geography terms. Teachers will find a Landforms...
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Geography for Kids: Canada

For Students 1st - 9th
On this site, find information about Canada's history, capital, flag, climate, terrain, people, economy, and population.
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Interactive
World Geography Games

World Geography Games: Us States

For Students 5th - 8th
Identify each state on a US map as its name is presented.
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Other

Museum of Western Colorado

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information/links to artifacts, photographs, Native Americans, the Old West, facts about the 20th century, and dinosaur-rich geography.
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Other

Didactalia: Interactive Map: Capitals of the United States

For Students 1st - 9th
Interactive map and game to identify capitals of the U.S. states.

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