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National Geographic Education brings geography, social studies and science to life. Using real-world examples and National Geographic's rich media, educators, families, and students learn about the world and the people in it.

Browse through National Geographic maps online in our print map collection and Atlas Explorer, explore your world with MapMachine, and enjoy map-based editorial features like EarthPulse.

This useful resource provides all the maps of the world, continents and countries, latest news maps and information on sport events and world maps along with engaging write ups.

World Atlas is an educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geography information. Teachers and students: free maps of Europe, USA, Canada, Florida, Caribbean Islands and much more. Worldatlas.com

Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online. Topics include math, geography, animals, and more.

Free, fully customizable animated, 3D or 2D flash charts - line, area, pie, donut (doughnut), bar, column, scatter, bubble, xy, radar, polar, spider, logarithmic scale charts, time plot

Free educational software for alphabet, phonics, letter sounds and learning to read. Free online maps and map puzzles: maps of U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, Middle East, Caribbean and more.

Create interactive maps using the award-winning free StatPlanet software. Explore thousands of world stats through interactive maps and visualizations.

The Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.

This site includes lots of information that is time and date related, such as yearly and monthly calendars, countdown counters and the world clock which shows current time in cities all over the world.

an animated map of global wind conditions

The Weather Channel and weather.com provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage.