COURSE SUPPORTIVE MATERIAL
Geography
Earthrise:
Earthrise is a graphical, easy and fun to use
front end to a large database of photos of the Earth from space.
Earthrise contains photos from the past 15 years and is a grate
resource for students, educators and the general public
interested in our planet.
River
Resource: RiverResource is a place where
students of rivers can explore valuable river resources--a
gateway to productive internet exploration. Here classrooms can
share the information they are gathering about rivers.
RiverResource encourages the study of all aspects of rivers:
their present, past, and future; their social and natural
history; their ecology, folklore and legends; their music,
literature, and art. And lots more.
A
Trip Through The Grand Canyon: No trip through
cyberspace can begin to communicate the thrill of actually
running the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This
multimedia journey is intended to simply provide a glimpse of the
river corridor and share some the joy of being in the grandest of
all canyons.
Great
Globe Gallery: Here you will find examples of
the Globe`s presentations from various Internet sources. This
collection consists of the different maps and planiglobes,
thematic and historical maps, cartographic nets in various
projections (including equal-area as well as conformal ones),
satellite images and artificial globes, icons and artistic
visions as well as movies.
Arctic
Circle: The overall goal of Arctic Circle is
to stimulate among viewers a greater interest in the peoples and
environment of the Arctic and Subarctic region. This 'electronic
circle' has three interrelated themes: natural resources; history
and culture; social equity and environmental justice.
How
Far Is It? This service uses the University of
Michigan Geographic Name Server and a supplementary database of
world cities to find the latitude and longitude of two places,
and then calculates the distance between them. It also provides a
map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
Map
Collection: The Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection (PCL 1.306) holds more than 230,000 maps covering
every area of the world.
Map
Viewer: The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a
World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or
USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the
requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a
geographic database.
Country
Studies: A continuing series of books prepared
by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under
the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the
Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of
71 countries.
World
Flag Database: A vexillological site with many
flags. For each country, here you can find it's flag and some
general information.
City.Net: Select a region to explore. Here
you can find information about countries and towns. Excite
City.Net has become one of the largest databases on the web,
representing more than 3,000 destinations on-line. It would be
hard to imagine a better success story.
USGS - The Learning Web: A portion of the USGS web dedicated
to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. The
activites here seek to increase science literacy and promote
interest in the Earth Sciences. Interact with exciting activities
that explore the "tools of the ancients" and how maps
can document the changing characteristics of a place. Transform a
globe to a flat sheet of paper and follow the paths of great
explorers. Discover how plotting data can create a trail of
knowledge and how designing a thematic map can convey a message.
Enjoy the "landscape of a novel" and map the third
dimension.
Project Geosim: Project GeoSim is a joint research
project of the Departments of Computer Science and Geography at
Virginia Tech. The project is about creating education modules
for introductory geography courses. These modules typically have
two parts:
1. A tutorial program to introduce terms and concepts of the
module.
2. A simulation program with which to carry out lab exercises.
Democritus University of Thrace - Tour
To Greece: Visit any place you like. Here you can
find pictures and information about regions, cities and
interesting sites of Greece.
Athens Weather Report: See what the weather conditions are
at this moment in Athens, Greece, and weather forecast for the
next days. Data are available from the Water Resources Division
of the Civil Engineering Department of the National Technical
University of Athens. You can see some satelite pictures.
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