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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Map Helps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/geographybooks.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/outlinemaps/
http://www.factmonster.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/geographybooks.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/outlinemaps/
http://www.factmonster.com
North America and Central America
Maps of North America and Central America can be found here and here.
Here is a map of rivers and other Physical Features 1 and Physical Features 2
Geographical features of North America you should know:
Geographical features to identify on a map of N. Am.
Mountains:
Canadian Rockies
US Rockies
Sierra Nevadas
Appalacian Mountains
Rivers:
Mississippi
Missouri
Colorado
Columbia
Other features and places:
Great Lakes
Hudson Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Baja California
Arctic Circle
North Pole
Play this map game to learn more physical Features of Central and South America
Explorers
Here is a long list of Explorers to select from:
Alexander von Humboldt
Hernán Cortés
John Rae
Pierre Esprit Radisson
Peter Stuyvesant
Robert Edwin Peary
Jean Nicollet
Roald Amundsen
Hernando De Soto
John Smith, of Jamestown
George Vancouver
Sebastián Vizcaíno
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Amerigo Vespucci
Giovanni da Verrazzano
David Thompson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Jedediah Smith (Sante Fe Trail)
Junipero Serra
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson
Walter Raleigh
Henry Hudson
Heriolf
Alexander von Humboldt
Martin Alonzo Pinzon
and
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Newport
Father Jacques Marquette
Meriwether Lewis
and
William Clark
Estevanico
Leif Ericsson
Eric the Red
Francis Drake
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Ponce De Leon
François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Robert de La Salle
Eusebio Francisco Kino
Louis Joliet
John Hawkins (Hispanola)
Robert Gray
Daniel Boone
Juan Bautista de Anza
John Cabot
Samuel de Champlain
William Dampier
James Cook
Jacques Cartier
Here is a map of rivers and other Physical Features 1 and Physical Features 2
Geographical features of North America you should know:
Geographical features to identify on a map of N. Am.
Mountains:
Canadian Rockies
US Rockies
Sierra Nevadas
Appalacian Mountains
Rivers:
Mississippi
Missouri
Colorado
Columbia
Other features and places:
Great Lakes
Hudson Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Baja California
Arctic Circle
North Pole
Play this map game to learn more physical Features of Central and South America
Explorers
Here is a long list of Explorers to select from:
Alexander von Humboldt
Hernán Cortés
John Rae
Pierre Esprit Radisson
Peter Stuyvesant
Robert Edwin Peary
Jean Nicollet
Roald Amundsen
Hernando De Soto
John Smith, of Jamestown
George Vancouver
Sebastián Vizcaíno
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Amerigo Vespucci
Giovanni da Verrazzano
David Thompson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Jedediah Smith (Sante Fe Trail)
Junipero Serra
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson
Walter Raleigh
Henry Hudson
Heriolf
Alexander von Humboldt
Martin Alonzo Pinzon
and
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Newport
Father Jacques Marquette
Meriwether Lewis
and
William Clark
Estevanico
Leif Ericsson
Eric the Red
Francis Drake
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Ponce De Leon
François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Robert de La Salle
Eusebio Francisco Kino
Louis Joliet
John Hawkins (Hispanola)
Robert Gray
Daniel Boone
Juan Bautista de Anza
John Cabot
Samuel de Champlain
William Dampier
James Cook
Jacques Cartier
Discover North and Central America
-Learn the Map of Canada and here. -Learn the 50 States - Get to know the states of Central America -Learn about animals of the Americas and the biomes (biomes 2) that they are found in. You may also just focus on one region, such as Canadian Animals.
-If you were visiting the US and could go anywhere at all where would you choose and why? Create a travel brochure you would like to see of a place you would want to visit.
-Learn About the Hudson Bay Company
-Learn the names and location of the Great Lakes. (Canada) or Great Lakes (US.)
-Learn about fur trapping in Canada and the US.
-Research and report about dinosaurs (Dinoasur 2) and dinosaur remains in North America.
-Study various group of native Americans like the Cherokee, Algonquin, Hopi, Navajo, Abenaki, Apache, Alapachees, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chinooks, and more. (There are many more!) Do a report on an an American Indian culture, history, arts, language and location.
- Mexico has a Constitution. Learn about Mexico from the Mexican Government.
-read about the American Government, white house history or a US president.
-Read about the Canadian Government. How do they make laws and keep order?
-Study and learn about Canada' s mounted police. (also referred to as the RCMP)
-Learn about Passports.
Learn about the Statue of Liberty.
-HAve a fiesta! Make some Mexican Food and break open a pinata, or eat at a Mexican Food Restaurant
-Learn some basic Spanish in case you visit south of the border or to a southern state.
-Learn some basic French in case you head North of the border.
-Read, learn and report about the Alamo.
-Make a map of missions and write about missionary history in the west.
Maybe you want to read some alternative views on Christian Missions and
missionaries too.
-Chart the course of Lewis and Clark on a map, read a story about them and write a report. Play a National Geographic game about them.
-Learn about the industrialization of America, Railroads, steam engines, cars. How about the Underground Railroad too?
-Read and report on interesting to you animals of North America (land or sea.) Also try the Enchanted learning.com website for materials.
-If you were visiting the US and could go anywhere at all where would you choose and why? Create a travel brochure you would like to see of a place you would want to visit.
-Learn About the Hudson Bay Company
-Learn the names and location of the Great Lakes. (Canada) or Great Lakes (US.)
-Learn about fur trapping in Canada and the US.
-Research and report about dinosaurs (Dinoasur 2) and dinosaur remains in North America.
-Study various group of native Americans like the Cherokee, Algonquin, Hopi, Navajo, Abenaki, Apache, Alapachees, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chinooks, and more. (There are many more!) Do a report on an an American Indian culture, history, arts, language and location.
- Mexico has a Constitution. Learn about Mexico from the Mexican Government.
-read about the American Government, white house history or a US president.
-Read about the Canadian Government. How do they make laws and keep order?
-Study and learn about Canada' s mounted police. (also referred to as the RCMP)
-Learn about Passports.
Learn about the Statue of Liberty.
-HAve a fiesta! Make some Mexican Food and break open a pinata, or eat at a Mexican Food Restaurant
-Learn some basic Spanish in case you visit south of the border or to a southern state.
-Learn some basic French in case you head North of the border.
-Read, learn and report about the Alamo.
-Make a map of missions and write about missionary history in the west.
Maybe you want to read some alternative views on Christian Missions and
missionaries too.
-Chart the course of Lewis and Clark on a map, read a story about them and write a report. Play a National Geographic game about them.
-Learn about the industrialization of America, Railroads, steam engines, cars. How about the Underground Railroad too?
-Read and report on interesting to you animals of North America (land or sea.) Also try the Enchanted learning.com website for materials.
Antarctica
Maps of Antarctica
Enchantedlearning.com has great Antarctic maps as well as information for any project. For some of their pages you must be a member, but not for all of them.
For additional maps and information check out factmonster and proteacher.com website no 1 or website no 2.
Explorers
James Cook
Edmund Percival Hillary
Roald Amundsen
Robert Falcon Scott
Ernest Shackleton
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen
John Weddell
Ann Bancroft
and
Liv Arnesen
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
and
Mike Stroud
James Clark Ross
Douglas Mawson
Going to Antarctica soon? Yes you are! Be sure to read this first! You need to know what to bring! And there are some more Antarctic antics... here.
Enchantedlearning.com has great Antarctic maps as well as information for any project. For some of their pages you must be a member, but not for all of them.
For additional maps and information check out factmonster and proteacher.com website no 1 or website no 2.
Explorers
James Cook
Edmund Percival Hillary
Roald Amundsen
Robert Falcon Scott
Ernest Shackleton
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen
John Weddell
Ann Bancroft
and
Liv Arnesen
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
and
Mike Stroud
James Clark Ross
Douglas Mawson
Going to Antarctica soon? Yes you are! Be sure to read this first! You need to know what to bring! And there are some more Antarctic antics... here.
Discovering Antarctica
-View Antarctica from Space
-Visit an Antarctic research station.
-Learn all about penguins
-Learn how birds that lay eggs develop and grow inside of an egg.
-Learn about seals
-Learn about whales
-Learn about all kinds of animals that live in the coldest region.
-Do an experiment on how animals keep warm in the freezing arctic temperatures
-Check out cool websites about Antarctica... like Alison Lester's Art Project
Make your own artwork to show and tell about Antarctica
-Learn about the Antarctic Treaty
-Research and report on what it is like to live in Antarctica today.
- Visit a cool antarctic website like the one from Noah Strycker Paul Ward or Scott Nutter,
-learn all about snow, snowflakes,
- go to blizzard school, and snow safety.
-Learn about the weather in this cold cold region.
-Learn Antarctic Lingo
A Little
Penguin Humor... My Collection of Penguin Jokes
Q: What did the sea say to the iceberg ?
Nothing, it just waved.
Q: Where do penguins go to dance?
At the snow ball.
Q: What do penguins eat for lunch?
Ice burg-ers.
Q: How do penguins drink?
Out of beak-ers.
Q: What's a penguin's favorite salad?
Iceberg lettuce.
Q: Who's the penguin's favorite Aunt?
Aunt-arctica .
Q: How does a penguin make pancakes?
With its flippers.
Q: What do little penguins sing when their
father brings fish home for dinner?
Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow.
Why can't penguins fly?
Because they don't have enough money to buy plane tickets.
Where do penguins keep their money?
In a snow bank
What do you call a penguin that can lift a polar bear?
Sir
. Q. How do a group of penguins make a decision?
They flipper coin.
Q. What do you call a penguin that steals baby octopuses?
A squidnapper!
Q. What's black and white and has eight wheels?
A penguin on rollerskates.
Q. Why are igloos round?
So penguins can't hide in the corners!
Q. What do penguins wear on their heads?
Ice caps!
What is black and white, black and white black and white?
A penguin rolling down an iceberg.
What is black and white and red all over?
A penguin with a sunburn!
Why do penguins carry fish in their beaks?
Because they haven't got any pockets.
What do penguins say to their friends?
Nice to snow you.
Q: What´s black and white and goes round and around?
A: A Penguin in a revolving door.
-Visit an Antarctic research station.
-Learn all about penguins
-Learn how birds that lay eggs develop and grow inside of an egg.
-Learn about seals
-Learn about whales
-Learn about all kinds of animals that live in the coldest region.
-Do an experiment on how animals keep warm in the freezing arctic temperatures
-Check out cool websites about Antarctica... like Alison Lester's Art Project
Make your own artwork to show and tell about Antarctica
-Learn about the Antarctic Treaty
-Research and report on what it is like to live in Antarctica today.
- Visit a cool antarctic website like the one from Noah Strycker Paul Ward or Scott Nutter,
-learn all about snow, snowflakes,
- go to blizzard school, and snow safety.
-Learn about the weather in this cold cold region.
-Learn Antarctic Lingo
A Little
Penguin Humor... My Collection of Penguin Jokes
Q: What did the sea say to the iceberg ?
Nothing, it just waved.
Q: Where do penguins go to dance?
At the snow ball.
Q: What do penguins eat for lunch?
Ice burg-ers.
Q: How do penguins drink?
Out of beak-ers.
Q: What's a penguin's favorite salad?
Iceberg lettuce.
Q: Who's the penguin's favorite Aunt?
Aunt-arctica .
Q: How does a penguin make pancakes?
With its flippers.
Q: What do little penguins sing when their
father brings fish home for dinner?
Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow.
Why can't penguins fly?
Because they don't have enough money to buy plane tickets.
Where do penguins keep their money?
In a snow bank
What do you call a penguin that can lift a polar bear?
Sir
. Q. How do a group of penguins make a decision?
They flipper coin.
Q. What do you call a penguin that steals baby octopuses?
A squidnapper!
Q. What's black and white and has eight wheels?
A penguin on rollerskates.
Q. Why are igloos round?
So penguins can't hide in the corners!
Q. What do penguins wear on their heads?
Ice caps!
What is black and white, black and white black and white?
A penguin rolling down an iceberg.
What is black and white and red all over?
A penguin with a sunburn!
Why do penguins carry fish in their beaks?
Because they haven't got any pockets.
What do penguins say to their friends?
Nice to snow you.
Q: What´s black and white and goes round and around?
A: A Penguin in a revolving door.
South America
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"]
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Charles Marie de la Condamine
Francisco Pizarro
Baron Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland
Candido Rondon
Theodore Roosevelt
Percy Fawcett
Cláudio Villas-Boas
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