Geography
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National Council for Geographic Education - Homepage of the NCGE. Has information about AP Geography classes, geography workshops available for teachers, geography standards, NCGE award programs, and links to other geography sites.
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National Geographic Society Site - National Geographic Society Site has lesson plans for teachers, extensive collection of printable maps to make overheads with, teacher communities and store, online geography resources for teachers and families, entire section dedicated to elementary-school level children, and photography from around
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Scanned Maps of Connecticut, 1676-1900 – The University of Connecticut Libraries historical map collection consists of 287 digitized maps of Connecticut, Long Island Sound, New England, the Northeast Atlantic region, and the United States from the period 1676-1919.
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Statistics in Schools – Classrooms powered by Census Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For elementary school, check out our Scavenger Hunt: Where is Gina the Geographer? activity. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an online scavenger hunt based on a story that a geographer named Gina, who loves to travel, has escaped to an undisclosed location. Students must follow a series of clues to help bring her back to the school. For middle and high school students, Analyzing Correlations of Education and Income activity. This fun exercise has students explore maps containing census data from 1950 through 2000 and analyze how education levels and median household incomes have changed over time.
