Maps --- games - shaded relief maps

• All the World Maps a compilation of each nation's maps plus cities
• Atlapedia
• Climate maps
  • European climate map- World book
  • About Climates - World Book
• Global Incident Map
• InfoPlease Atlas - country profiles, flags and statistics
• MegaMaps - printable outline maps from 1x1 to 7x7 - Owl&Mouse (http://www.yourchildlearns.com)
• National Atlas.gov - printable maps - national, state, rivers and lakes, Indian reservations, precipitation, elections, territorial aquisitions
• National Geographic Map Machineprovides a complete atlas with physical, political, and historic maps, as well as flags and facts about countries. Tools let users zoom in and move around within maps, and print them out
• National Geographic World - includeing GeoSpy game on MyWonderfulWorld.org
  • Geowalk - info, photos, videos of cities on world map
  • Maplandia - searchable Google satallite maps
  • Virtual Tourism - vido, info of specific sites in specific cities of world countries
• Outline Maps from Education Place offers frequently used maps that teachers can print for classroom use or students can use in projects. see also ABCteach outline maps
• World Atlas maps, flags and country information - from About.com
• WorldAtlas.com maps and country information

Maps on other web sites full listing of links from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

• The Color Landform Atlas of the United States from Johns Hopkins University provides detailed topographical maps of every state. http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
• Earth and Moon Viewer presents a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at the moment, the Earth from the Sun, the Moon from the Earth, and many other views. http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview
  
• Library of Congress Map Collections offers digitized maps from the LC collection, organized under themes such as Cities and Towns, Discovery and Exploration, and so on. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
• Map EnviroMapper from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows users to create maps that display environmental information, including watershed water quality, toxic and air releases, and hazardous waste. The site also links to detailed environmental quality reports. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em
• National Atlas of the United States has digital views of natural and sociocultural U.S. landscapes to illustrate complex relationships between environments, places, and people. Multimedia maps show active volcanoes and more. Users also can create their own multilayered maps with an interactive map browser. http://www.nationalatlas.gov
  
• NetState.com - state maps and information: symbols, almanac, geography, sattelite map
• Owl and Mouse interactive maps - most are Educational Software, downloadable, but some ar eonline interactive
• TerraServer from Microsoft Encarta has aerial photographs and topographic maps of much of the United States. http://terraserver.microsoft.com
• The U.S. Gazetteer from the U.S. Census Bureau allows students to type in a city and state to generate a map and then customize it by zooming in or out and adding features such as cities, street names, and bodies of water. http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
• Xpeditions from National Geographic and the Marco Polo Project provides an atlas with hundreds of printable one-page maps, Xpedition Hall with interactive geography activities, the National Geography Standards with teaching ideas, and a teachers' discussion forum. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
  

Map games and online activities

• Geonet - interactive games - US, continents and world - by various categories
• Interactive maps - list from internet4classrooms.com- scroll down to Interactive
• Lizardpoint online interactive maps - basic
• Map puzzles online - US and world - Owl & Mouse educational software (http://www.yourchildlearns.com)
  • Interactive maps - scroll down for online matching - states and captitals, countries, continents
  • United States features
  • World continents - based on the Prime Meridean
  • World features
  • World monuments
• Map Maker Utility - for United States and individual states- color code different counties and areas
• • European Capitals - matching game - http://www.quia.com/mc/1005.html
  • Europe - games, puzzles, quizzes, trivia - http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/europegames.html
  • Map and Geography games http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#
  • Practice maps http://faculty.washington.edu/smott/mapractice/apractice.html
  • Test Your Geography Knowledge http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
  • All about world geography - drag and drop games - http://sheppardsoftware.com/World_Continents.htm
  • Map coloring 4 colors

Shaded Relief maps - color landform map of the US

• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Georgia
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Virginia

Maps and mapping lesson plans