National Geographic for Kids

Many fine activities included on this page that include some excellent games for learning the continents and oceans

         Copycat: Continents Memory game

         GeoSpy:  Fast paced Map-Game

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/index.html#geogames

 

National Geographic Map Machine

Maps of continents, interactive student maps and more!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

 

Where is That?

Practice identifying countries or states on the continent maps.

http://www.funbrain.com/where/

 

Jungle Crusaders

Answer questions about the world's most notable mountains, deserts and oceans in a quest to cure a sick lion king.

http://games.funschool.com/games.php

 

GeoNet (Houghton Mifflin Social Studies site)

A series of geography questions ask you about the world or the United States.  Topics vary with levels of difficulty.

http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/

 

On Line Geography Games

This site helps you identify the countries of each major continent.

http://www.standard.net.au/~garyradley/games/index.html

 

Globe Spotter

An arcade game to practice the names and locations of countries throughout the world.

http://clevermedia.com/arcade/globe.html

 

Altapedia Online

Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

http://www.atlapedia.com/

 

Links last verified 06/08/2005


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