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=Kate Rosenberg:= **Title:** Florida: Facts, Map and State Symbol [] **Summary:** This website is very informational and presents facts, maps, and state symbols. There are many wonderful teacher resources like printable pictures and printout quizzes. You can also click on any of the state symbols to find out more information on them. **Title:** Florida Unit of Study [] **Summary:** This is a great teacher resource website that has Florida fun facts, trivia, state flag, map, bird, flower, color pages, scrambler puzzles, word searches, reading lists, and other worksheets for students do to. This is a well-organized and educational site for teachers. **Title:** Online Sunshine for Kids [] This website is very colorful and kid friendly. There are pictures and titles of each link and once you click on a link it brings you to another webpage with information on that topic. The main topics are state symbols, capital tour, fun facts, page and messenger programs, games and puzzles, capital history, and your legislature. There is even a link for younger kids who can’t really read. There are pictures that go along with everything.

=Dara Fischer's:= []
 * 1) **Teaching Geography**

- This website explains what geography is all about for first graders. It is really helpful to look back on before you start working on the unit. It gives definitions and uses good terms to help teach the students in a way that they will understand. The main purpose of this site is to teach the five elements of geography that students must learn in a social studies class. This is mainly for the teachers benefit to have a full understanding of the unit before it is being taught. []
 * 1) **Florida**

- This is a site that just gives us the overview of Florida. Before starting a lesson, the students should be familiar with the content. So, providing this site will teach the students different aspects of Florida and what it really is. For example, the capitol, major waterways (which is good for the geography unit). This is also a good site to activate any prior knowledge and also gain knowledge as well. []
 * 1) **What do students learn in the First Grade (1st Grade)?**

- This site was really useful for understanding what exactly is to be taught in the classroom in this grade level. Teachers can’t know everything on what is to be taught, so resources are really helpful to look back on. This site is definitely beneficial to any teacher and should be used to help build on lesson plans. There are so many different aspects to geography and history, that it is difficult to grasp it all. So this book helps break down what is to be taught in first grade.

= Samantha Kaul's Internet Search: = = 1) **Exploring Florida:** [] = -This site offers the following resources: Maps, videos, links between Florida then and FLorida now, songs, and articles about Florida written a long time ago. 2) **National Geographic's: Map Tools for Adventure:** [] -This website is a learning game by National Geographic that teaches map skills. It begins by explaining what a legend is and what the symbols may mean on a map. You then take the bus driver of a Hawainnan Island to the designated locations using directions 3) **EduPlace:** []-This is an interactive map that includes a compass rose and a legend. Students find various items and use self discovery techniques to navigate. 4) **How to Read a Map:** []-This video is a fun way for students to see visuals while learning map skills to music. The video is 3:44 seconds in length5) **Map skills: Using Maps Together:** []-Outdoors man Lance Boulder is looking for a place to live in between his explorations. This video shows land forms in maps and regions as well

=Kimberly Mogerman:= **Title:** Poem Hunter [|Title: Poem Hunter __http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/weather/_] **Summary:** This site is excellent for incorporating poetry into the geographic theme of the unit. It is both teacher and student friendly and includes poems about all types of weather, physical environments and places, as well as locations, and people. It is a great way to include Language Arts into the Geography lesson and can inspire students to write poems of their own while learning about the different types of weather and physical features.

**Title:** Weather Wiz Kids [|__http://www.weatherwizkids.com/__] **Summary:** This site explains all the different types of weather to children in a simple way in which they will understand and/or teachers will be able to use to help explain to their students. It explains how these different weather types occur, where they are most likely to take place, the lingo of each type, the severity, and what to do if faced a dangerous form of weather such as a tornado. It also includes weather games, instruments, experiments, forecasting, folklore, photos, words, jokes, flashcards, and safety.

**Title:** Culture: A Geographical Perspective [|_http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/grade3/geograph.html_] **Summary:** This site is not made for young children but will be very helpful in enhancing teachers knowledge on the subject area of how geography and location affect the way people live and the different lifestyles and cultures of people throughout different parts of the world. It helps define the different culture regions, what makes them up, and how people in these regions adapt to their environment, thrive from it, and how they live their daily lives.

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=**Kelli Wilder:**=

This website provides students with a visual interactive game that focuses on the importance of symbols on a map. It begins with teaching you what a symbol is: Maps use symbols- simple pictures- to represent real things or locations. It then asks the student to find symbols on a map that match photos of its location. Once the student has matched all the symbols correctly, the game then moves on to explain why a map may need a key. It then has the student practice using the key and symbols to locate something on the map. The game is fun for kids and will motivate them to learn more about the different parts of a map and how to use those parts to then find things on the map.
 * National Geographic MAPS Tools For Adventure: ** []

[] This website is great for both teachers and students. BrainPOP offers a great informative video all about maps for the students to watch. Then below the video it has background information and lesson ideas on how to read a map for the teacher. It also has a link to an activity for the students to complete, a link to draw about the topic, read more about it, prompts to write about it. While exploring this website I couldn’t help but think about how awesome it would be to use on the smart board in class. Students can actually come to the board and interact with many different links on this website including “draw about it!”
 * BrainPOP Jr.| Reading Maps **

[] This website is great for teachers! It has a lot of content knowledge about the state of Florida including its major rivers, bordering bodies of water, origin of the name, state song, state motto, and more. It also includes a Florida map quiz printout, Florida outline print out, and a Florida: label me print out. Along with all of the above there are also graphic organizers related to Florida, your state draw and write activities, and many other printouts for your class.
 * Florida **
 * Facts, Map and State Symbols **