Free Sites for Teaching World Geography

What’s the capital of Spain?

Where is the Indian Ocean?

How many Great Lakes are there?

If you want your child to be able to answer those questions and others about world geography, you may want to take advantage of some of the online resources below.

These websites offer everything from online games and quizzes to printable maps and worksheets. All of them will help your child “see” the world from the comfort of your home.

World Geography Sites

Sheppard’s Software: Offers online games on world geography at different levels.

World Geography Games: Has online games about countries, continents, rivers, islands and more.

Your Child Learns: This site has lots of resources including Maps That Teach, Online Map Puzzles, and printable maps.

EarthCam: This site has live webcam video of various places around the world.

Localingual: Listen to the voices of the world with this fun interactive map.

Google Maps: As you probably already know, this is a huge source of maps of the world. Plus it has photo tours, photos, and street view to show what places really look like.

Lizard Point Consulting: This website offers interactive quizzes on world geography by topic or region.

Mr. Nussbaum: Includes interactive maps and activities for kids.

Geography-Map-Games: Online games and quizzes on world geography, especially cities.

Coolmath-Games: Has a Geography section with online games for kids.

CRW Flags: This site has a huge collection of flags from around the world and for many purposes.

National Geographic Kids: Has online geography games, puzzles and quizzes designed just for kids. Also on the National Geographic site are maps, facts, articles and more.

World Atlas: Free printable maps of the world.

Info Please: The atlas section of this site has free printable maps.

Enchanted Learning: Has plenty of maps and worksheets for teaching children geography.

Jump Start: Jump Start offers free geography worksheets.

Student Handouts: A collection of free geography printables are available at this site.

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More help on this site for teaching world geography:

• World Geography Apps for Kids
• World Geography Quiz Apps
• How to Teach Geography with Living Books
• Where to Get World Geography Homeschool Curriculum
• Map Play Rugs for Teaching Beginning Geography Skills
• Videos with Seven Continents Songs

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