Geography Course IdeasMapsI love this teaching tool for world maps. The Education Place website offers world outline maps that can be coloured.There is often two maps of the same location - one with labels and one without. The numerous maps out organized into countries and continents. A great resource for learning about geography for all ages - from kindergarten learning to colour to older children trying to learn the names and shapes of the countries of the world. World and Country Specific GeographySheppardsSoftware.com is a fabulous free geography learning site, and includes many others subjects as well.The world geography games are fun, and very educational at the same time. It has great online games, at different skill levels. It's perfect for primary grades and up. If you're trying to learn the location of Canadian provinces on a map, including capitals and landscape geographical regions (like the Canadian Shield or Rockies) and rivers, oceans and lakes, this site will help you out tremendously.
But not just Canada, you can learn about the individual states, capitals and landscape features of
the USA,
or
Mexico,
or other countries and continents around the world. Check it out. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Physical GeographyThe online book Fundamentals of Physical Geography is a free online resource with loads of information for study.Physical Geography is a sub-discipline of two much larger fields of study - Geography and Earth Sciences. The book explains the spatial characteristics of natural phenomena that exist in Earth's hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere.
Another free online resource dealing with Physical Geography is
The Physical Environment: An Introduction to Physical Geography.
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