Geographical Resources

Geographical Resources and Atlases

It was extremely interesting searching through the different geographical web sites.  Before reading Riedling’s Chapter7 on geographical sources I had no idea that these web sites existed.  Some of the sites were extremely easy to navigate and some were very difficult.  Most provided lots of interesting information however not all were up to date.  I particularly enjoyed navigating through The Lonely Planet web site.  I have now found a new site to use when looking for new places to travel.  It allows me to search for hotels, points of interest, restaurants and the various different ways to travel within the country.  All of the information posted on this site is between 1 and 2 years old.

This web site would be useful when discussing different countries and their people with the children at school.  I have a smart board in my classroom and this site would allow me to show the children the many different, interesting things about the different countries in our world.  This would be particularly useful when the children are discussing the countries that their families come from.  We could pull it up on the smart board and show everyone else in the class where their classmates came from and some of the interesting places within their countries.

Atlapedia would also be a very good site to use with the intermediate students if it were up to date.  All of the information on this site is from the 1990’s and therefore considered to be historical.