Here are some of my favorite links. The information found on these sites can be both entertaining and informative. Several of these sites will provide you with information useful in completing some of the projects that you will be assigned while in my class. If you come a cross a website that is not listed below please feel free to give me the web address. I am always looking for new web sites to add to the list. 

Excellent place to find historical, cultural and statistical data. Cool pictures too. http://www.countryreports.org/

Latitude and longitude information. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html

Central Intelligence Agency fact book. This site contains a lot of various information about most, if not all countries in the world.  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

An excellent site. Very comprehensive guide to the life and customs of the world's countries. http://www.cp-pc.ca/english/index.html

A compilation of each nation's maps including cities http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/maps.html

Excellent map resource http://www.atlapedia.com/online/map_index_phy.htm

Flag rules and regulations. This site can provide a lot of "civic" information as well as serve as a reference for my extra credit project. http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html

This site claims to be the Internet's largest site devoted to the study of vexillology (the study of flags). They claim to have over 64,000 images of flags on theis site. http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/

One of my favorite sites. You will use this whenever we complet the U.S. scavenger hunt. This site has a lot of good stuff. A visit here and you will be able to amaze your friends and family with your "states" knowledge. http://www.50states.com/

A quick reference for country and capital. http://geography.about.com/od/countryinformation/a/capitals.htm

If you ever wondered what a euro, krona, won, riyal, or rupee is, then this is the site for you. This site contains countries and their currencies.http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/currency.htm

Excellent site with a treasure chest full of information for vacation planning or studying world geography. This is a wonderful source for completing your travel brochure or travel briefing project.  http://www.geographia.com/index.html

This page offers you information listing the elevation of some of the most common mountains. http://www.peakware.com/highest.html

A rainforest activity. We will use this when we study the rain forests of the world. http://www.geography.ndo.co.uk/rainforest.htm

If you want to know the climat information about almost any city in the world then visit this site. Also provides latitude and longitude coordinates. http://www.worldclimate.com/

Color landform atlas of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Fact Monster - World and News http://www.factmonster.com/

Geography On-Line boasts over 5500 educational resources http://www.jessebethel.net/faculty/departments/socialscience/geography_online.htm

World Newspapers

IPL Online Newspapers http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/

News and newspapers on-line http://library.uncg.edu/news/

Refdesk.com - USA and Worldwide. Excellent for your news articles required for this and other classes. http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

All About The United States http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Cartoons, (Political/Other)

The Political Dr Seuss http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/political.html

The Political Dr Seuss Gallery http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/seuss_fla.html

Planning your political cartoon. A worksheet to help in designing political cartoons. Especially useful in Lycett's World History class.    http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3775/3775_electionCartoons_cartoon.pdf