CANADIAN CONTENT SITES
Government of
Canada - Official Site
Facts About
Canada
http://www.mbvirtualtours.com
Virtual tour of the Manitoba Legislative Building
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/cansymbols.htm
Great site for symbols and easy descriptions of them
http://www.canadainfolink.ca/
Excellent site for information on the provinces
WHAT'S NEW @ CANADA'S DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
http://collections.ic.gc.ca
For February, Canada's Digital Collections welcomes seven new sites.Visitors can now
virtually tour the Okanagan and Lanaudière regions, discover the legacies and lives of
every one of Canada's Prime Ministers, and more thanks to this months newest additions
Inuit Sites and lesson Plans
http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/
Canadian Political Sites
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/h4-3000-e.html
A list of Prime Ministers the dates in office and political affiliations
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
Student pages/lesson plans
Natural Resources page for students and teachers
Info on mineral, mines (build your own) geography (atlas quiz) and more
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/communications/nrcat-rnchat/index_e.html
Geography
Canada
Map - all types of Canada maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/
Questions (and answers) from the National Geography Bee are
posed daily at this web version of the popular "National
Geographic" magazine.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozgeography/
Powered by World Book, Discovery School resource is a great first stop for school
geography reports. In it you'll find articles on countries, states, cities, political
leaders, and geographic definitions
Outline Maps
These sixty-six black-and-white printable outline maps (in Acrobat PDF) are royalty-free
for classroom and homework usage. There are maps of every continent, and many counties.
There is a small link to GeoNet. Follow it for a fun collection of online geography trivia
games.
CIA World Factbook
Includes flags of the World and a search engine for all their information.
Infoplease Atlas
Infoplease Atlas is everything you'd want from an atlas, including maps, country profiles,
flags and statistics. Enter via the clickable world map, or browse the map index. Best
clicks are the nineteen geography quizzes, sixteen interactive crossword puzzles,
geography glossary, world time zone maps, and printable outline maps of the United States
and the seven continents. What are the "seven seas?" Click on over to Geography
FAQ to find out. Be sure to bookmark this site for school reports.
Canada's Treasure Trek
- from TVO Kids - Search for "hidden treasure" as you learn about
the provinces and territories of Canada
Explorers
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/explorers/glossary.shtml
GLOSSARY OF EXPLORATION TERMS
Find out what longitude, latitude, doldrums, analemma, and
other exploration terms mean
More Explorer Sites
This site was created for teachers to use with first and second graders to study
another area of the world and to contrast it to where they live. This site is divided into
three biomes: the desert, the rainforest, and the savanna. The people, land and animals of
each biome are presented
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/africa/aboutaf.htm
Aboriginal websites:
Great Plains Indians
Japan Sites:
http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/japan.html
http://www.artisandevelopers.com/web/tokyo/
Mexico Sites:
http://www.surfnetkids.com/mexico.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mexico/
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital/mexico/
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/cinco/html/cinco.htm
This special Word Book feature is a compilation of related encyclopedia articles,
including History of Mexico, Modern Mexican Culture, and Hispanic
Americans. Each section includes an interactive quiz.
African Arts & Music:
http://pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/music/goals.html
