WorldBiomes.com
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Where is That?
"The game where your mind is your map. Choose from seven maps and five levels of difficulty. Level one starts with multiple choice questions (""Is this France, Russia or Germany?"") Level five means spelling the country or state AND its capital city. Want to play against a buddy? Hats off to Funbrain for including a two-player version, where each player can choose his own level of difficulty. And this marvelous game is Java-free, so it’s compatible with older browsers and WebTV."
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Where in the World?
"Start your geography lesson by choosing a region of the world, and studying the interactive maps which name each country as your mouse passes over it. When you’re ready for the games, each region has three to choose from: Find Game (""Where is Finland?""), Quiz Game (""This country is famous for its clocks."") or Word Game (a hangman-like word guessing game). My favorite click is Quiz Game; but remember you must choose a region before you’ll see the game choices."
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Welcome to the Jungle
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Reviewed August 22, 2000 by a student 17 years old from Groningen, The Netherlands who is affiliated with the site.A high quality website with lots of content and interactive elements about exploration.
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University of Texas Online
Reviewed February 17, 2002 by Shel, a teacher from Daytona Beach, Florida, who is not affiliated with the site. This site has wonderful current world maps with the countries labeled. It’s perfect for studying. Some of the maps were large, but most could be printed out with just a little adjustment.
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Unison-Irish Newspapers - Irish News
Reviewed January 23, 2001 by Isabel, a reader from Dublin, Ireland who is affiliated with the site. I just wanted to let you know that today we will unveil a new look for the Unison web portal, which offers the largest Irish source of news and information to a worldwide audience.
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Toucan Sam
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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TopoZone.com
Reviewed December 11, 2000 by Bill Everett,a parent from Chelmsford, MA who is affiliated with the site.TopoZone is the only site that provides online access to all 50 states in the US with searchable seamless USGS topographic maps and lots of other cartography tools. The new version of our site will let the user define their own icons and target symbols to place on the map. Great educational tool. Site was picked as the Number 1 Geography site on the Internet for 1999.
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Tolerance.org
"Tolerance.org is a project of The Southern Poverty Law Center. It is my anti-hate pick of the day because it has a kids section (listen to an ancient Turkish folk tale,) a teen page (start a Mix It Up Dialogue at school) and resources for teachers and parents. There are excellent tools and activities behind every click, but of particular interest to me was Hate on the Internet, an annotated tour of real-life hate sites. You’ll find it listed under Parents/Online Activities/Age 14 and up."
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