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Geography education

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CACAO Project: Geography: Funded by the European Commission, the CACAO project subject portals offer multilingual search capabilities, giving access to subject-specific catalogues and online libraries. The portal can be viewed in English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian and Polish. Within the geography subject gateway, books, manuscripts, journals, prints, databases, microform, CD-ROMs, images and other digital materials can be searched.
Author: CACAO Project
Subjects: geography education, geography research
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: index, opac
CountryWatch.com: Clickable map provides key data about the population, geographical area, capital city, climate, languages spoken, and currency of over 190 countries. Also offers information on recent news stories, economic situations, agriculture, the environment, ethnic divisions, and religions practised.
Author: CountryWatch.com
Subjects: geographical data, geography education
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: interactive map, reference data
Free Rice: Interactive educational game developed in partnership with the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the United Nations World Food Program. Tests users' knowledge of world geography, languages, english, maths, famous paintings, chemistry and English, while donating rice to developing countries.
Author: FreeRice.com
Subjects: food consumption, geography education
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: interactive game
GeoCommunity: Highlights maps, tools, and software for researchers interested in GIS. Offers a collection of geographical data sources arranged by country, a search engine for exploring the Web specifically for geography related resources, downloadable packages, viewers, converters and compression utilities, and latest news in the form of headlines, classifieds, and events.
Author: GeoComm International Corporation
Subjects: geographical data, geography education, gis
DeweyClass: 912
Resource type: documents
Geographer's Craft Project: Project aimint to improve the teaching of geographical techniques.
Author: University of Texas at Austin
Subjects: geography education
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: document collection, guide
Geography Departments Worldwide: Searchable database of over 1000 geography departments in over 80 countries.
Author: Foerster, Klaus
Subjects: geography education
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: index
Kingston Centre for GIS: Details of introductory short courses and distance learning courses at Kingston, including EduGIS, plus GIS software, various GIS publications and papers, an electronic noticeboard, and a test of GIS knowledge.
Author: Kingston University
Subjects: geography education, gis
DeweyClass: 912
Resource type: articles, forum, software
LTSN Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences: One of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centres. Provides links to collections of resources, projects, programmes, software, online journals, and events.
Author: Learning and Teaching Support Network, Plymouth University
Subjects: cartography, geographical data, geography education, geology education, meteorology
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: documents
Major Biomes of the World: Guide to the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. Considers the structure, characteristic growth forms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation, and major soil order(s). Also covers common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desert scrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes.
Author: Woodward, Susan
Subjects: forests, geography education, soil science, taxonomy
DeweyClass: 577.3
Resource type: guide
National Geographic Society: Society founded in 1888 for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. Now claims to be the largest non-profit scientific and educational institution in the world.
Author: National Geographic Society
Subjects: geography education, geography societies
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: institution
Outline Geography of Ireland: Brief details on aspects of the geography of Ireland. Includes sections on rivers, climate, vegetation, agriculture, forestry and fishing, amongst others.
Author: Ireland-information.com
Subjects: geography education, ireland
DeweyClass: 914.1
Resource type: document
Royal Geographical Society: Society formed from the merger in 1995 of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. Much of the Society's research activity is undertaken through its nineteen research groups.
Author: Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Subjects: geography education, geography research, geography societies
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: institution
Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern: These seven accounts move from the ancient fathers of historical prose Herodotus and Tacitus in Egypt and Germany, respectively, to the great Elizabethan explorers Drake, Gilbert and Raleigh as they colonise new lands.
Author: Harvard
Subjects: geography education, world history
DeweyClass: 800
Resource type: non-fiction ebooks