Geography Lesson Plans
Highly Recommended Lesson Plans
- Xpeditions: National Geographic Lesson Plans
- Hundreds of free, teacher-tested lesson plans.
More Recommended Lesson Plans
- Awesome Library
- A collection of links to lesson plans and lesson plan databases.
- Core Knowledge Plans
- Unit plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at Core Knowledge National Conferences.
- Coverdell Word Wide Schools Program of the Peace Corps
- Lesson plans from the Peace Corp. Helps the teacher integrate global issues and awareness of other cultures into core content areas.
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
- The Gateway provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources. The Gateway user can do a customized search using subject and grade level.
- Geographic Resources from the Smithsonian
- Primarily informational resources for teachers and students. Some lesson plans.
- Hot Chalk Lesson Plans Page
- A very big database of over 4,000 lesson plans, many pertaining to geography.
- McRel Geography Lesson Plans
- Geography lesson plans and related resources.
- National Geographic Education Guide
- Geography lesson plans, maps, photos, etc.
- NY Times Daily Lesson Plan
- Hundreds of lesson plans for grades 6-12 based on articles that have appeared in the New York Times. This is a joint endeavor with the Bank Street School of Education. Many interesting features.
- PBS Teachers
- Extensive resource for geography lesson plans.
- Teacher Planet
- Directory of geography lesson plan sites.
- Thinkfinity
- Standards-based lesson plans.
- Xpeditions: National Geographic Lesson Plans
- Hundreds of free, teacher-tested lesson plans.
Other Geography Resources
- Atlapedia Online
- "Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world." (quote taken from resource's website.)
- The Franklin Educational Hotlists at the Franklin Institute
- A number of useful geography links.
- Geography World
- An extensive and well-organized directory of geographical information.
- National Geographic Education Guide
- Geography lesson plans, maps, photos, etc.
