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Location, Place, Regions
| Map Reading Activity - printable worksheet on map reading skills. |
| Focus On A Map - recognizing distinguishing features of a simple map including streets, places, and place labels. (requires Riverdeep login) - Destination Reading, Course 2, Unit 1, Activity 6. |
| Choice Is Right - interpreting a simple map and selecting the correct answers to a variety of questions about the map. (requires Riverdeep login) - Destination Reading, Course 2, Unit 1, Activity 7. |
Movement
| Transportation - provided by USDA; gives a timeline on various forms of transportation |
| The Coming of the Roads and Wagon Wheel Boys - explores the history of transportation |
| Transportation/Vehicles at Enchanted Learning - a huge selection of transportation activities ranging from printouts to online games and activities. |
| From Foot to Flight - online museum of the history of transportation. |
Human Environment Interaction
| Childrens' Folk Games - an online resource that shows games children play around the world. |
| Rice is Nice - lesson plan on Japanese customs |
| Teaching Citizenship's Five Themes - Activities from the editors of Weekly Reader can help develop K-6 students’ understanding of the five citizenship themes---honesty, compassion, respect, responsibility, and courage. |
| Kids Next Door - where kids can learn more about being good citizens. |
Process/Investigation
| Map Adventures - a great activity for understanding map scales. |
| Natural Resources: Can We Use Them Forever? - A discussion of natural resources with a related activity. |
| Everything Comes From Something - Lesson plan in which students will learn about renewable and nonrenewable resources and trace resources' points of origin by constructing and analyzing a product map. |
| Nature/Unnature Walk - Lesson plan on distinguishing between natural and man-made resources. |
| Salmon Challenge - a fun online game to help you see how your decisions help or harm our environment and our salmon. |
| The Greenhouse Effect - provides an overview of the earth's atmospheric "greenhouse effect" by briefly exploring the atmospheres of nearby planets and discussing our atmosphere's greenhouse gases. |
| Climate Prediction Center - has great colorful maps depicting climates around the world. |
| Climate - an informative article on climate from Encarta. |
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