This is a fun geography tool for determining distances and flight paths between any two locations on the globe.
Great Circle Mapper 
 

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This video is a big hit with my 8th grader but I don’t know how I could possibly learn this song. It gets a ‘LOL’ from him and his friends and it is a great improvement over this intellectual perspective:

WebCams are pretty cool. Not just the kind I use for Skype but the kind that is always on and broadcasting images over the web. FOXNews has a fun list of webcams around the world. Here’s what’s happening right now…
It’s nighttime in Paris.

There’s a big, big boat in the Panama Canal.

Haze in Egypt looking at […]

Geography has always been a favorite subject for me. Even as a kid I liked to make maps and do the quizzes to see if I could remember all the states or countries in South America.
Interactive Internet sites have made all that even more fun and easy to teach. Here are just a few examples […]

Maps of War is a handy site that collects, well, maps. Not basic maps but the best of interactive maps on the web from a variety of sources such as MSNBC, BBC, Los Angeles Times and others. Example maps are History of Religion, WW1 The Western Front, WWII in Europe and many others. Very […]

Google released their Mapplets application today. So, what, right? Well, this is a pretty cool little tool for homeschool or for anyone who uses Google Maps. It makes mashups easy for students! What does that mean? Well, if you click your way around the internet even a little you’ve seen sites like Google Earth or […]

The New7Wonders Foundation has completed a project to choose the New Seven Wonders of the modern world. It’s a kind of reconstruction of the ancient list. Only one site remains of the original Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Giza. The Egyptians were in a bit of a snit over having to compete […]

Just when I thought I had teaching geography down pat this shows up in Digg. National Geographic has determined that, nope, it’s not the Nile anymore but the Amazon River that is the longest in the world. A team of Brazilian scientists have pinpointed the Amazon’s origins in the Peruvian Andes, some 176 miles farther […]