Internet Sites for Newspaper Articles, May 2009

Africa news - http://www.africanews.com/site

            An African news site with reporters reporting in from all across Africa.  Contains news, editorials and photos on a range of topics.

Afrik.com - http://en.afrik.com/

            News from around Africa.  Can view general news from the main site, or go to the local news tab and get news and information based on a particular country/region.  Unclear as to whether news from directly from Africa.

African Science News - http://africasciencenews.org/asns/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

News about Africa from Africa relating to science issues.

BBC News Africa - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm

            New of Africa from the BBC.  Some reporting done from reporters and reporting stations from in Africa.

Afrol - http://www.afrol.com/

            Another African news site.  Unclear whether the news originates from Africa.

May 2009 Africa Project sites

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1765.html

        Getting in and what to expect

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

     CIA World Factbook, your source for just about anything; very up-to-date

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

     The Library of Congress has sites for each country; general information

http://www.weather.com/

     Information for climograph

http://www.worldclimate.com

     Another source for climograph data/

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

     Population pyramids

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations

     A travel site, with good general information

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/menu_EduKNTR.html

     University of Pennsylvania has pages for each country of Africa, general

http://www.worldofmaps.com

http://nationsencyclopedia.com

     An online encyclopedia, with good entries and links for each country

April 2009  Energy usage by country

http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/Energy-energy

For United Nations Human Development Index, go to:

http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/alphabetical2008/

For population pyramids, go to:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

How much water do you use at home?  December 2008

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sq3.html

National Geography Bee 2009

January 2009

Classroom Bees:  December 2008

School Bee:  January 2009

How to prepare for the National Geography Bee

1.  Examine a physical and cultural atlas of the world.  A globe would be helpful as well.  Yes, trying looking at actual paper maps and a globe!

2.  Visit the following site for weekly geography quizzes:

          http://geography.about.com/library/quiz/blpreviss.htm

3.  Try the GeoBee Challenge from National Geographic.  There are five new questions each day:

          http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/

4.  Sheppard Software produces some good atlas online games dealing with rivers, countries, capitals, et cetera:

          http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

5.  You can even make maps of the US or world on:

          http://www.nationalatlas.gov

          http://www.geographynetwork.com/

6.  You can download and explore the Earth using Google Earth or NASA Worldwind software:

          http://earth.google.com

          http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

7.  Finally, National Geographic also has some suggestions to prepare for the Bee, including current events, blank outline maps, and more:

          http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographybee/study_corner.html

Hopefully, these would be helpful.  If you come up with other suggestions, let your teachers and classmates know. 

May 2009 Africa Project sites

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1765.html

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

http://www.weather.com/

http://www.worldclimate.com/

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/menu_EduKNTR.html

http://www.worldofmaps.com

http://nationsencyclopedia.com

September 2008  Using National Geographic Index search for articles

National Geographic Index Search

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/publications/explore.html

Olympics and Geography, September 2008

http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/

http://en.beijing2008.cn/en_index.shtml

http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp

3D Topographic Map Simulation  October 2008

ForgeFX - Custom 3D Topographic Map Simulation.

http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/

November 2008 Using the Online Map Creator

http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/make_map.html

November 2008  Election Information

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/sdlookup.nsf/Public_KidSearch?OpenForm

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

November 2008 Creating your own World starting with latitude/longitude

http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp