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Africa Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the continent of Africa. Simply click on a country to see its statistics and basic information.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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African Nations Identification Quiz - Online

Description: This activity requires students to identify 15 randomly selected African nations on the map. It displays different nations each time the quiz is loaded. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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African Flag Identification Quiz - Online

Description: This activity requires students to identify 12 randomly selected African flags on the map. It displays different nations each time the quiz is loaded. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Africa Outline Map

Description: This is a simple Africa outline map that includes nations.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2

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Africa Top Ten Most Populous Nations Outline Map

Description: This is an Africa outline map that requires students to identify and write the top ten most populous nations as numbered on the map.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ethiopia Interactive Map and Interesting Facts

Description: This interactive map of Ethiopia allows students to click on points of interest to learn about them. In addition, the page features interesting facts, statistics, and the symbolism of the flag.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Nigeria Interactive Map and Interesting Facts

Description: This interactive map of Nigeria allows students to click on points of interest to learn about them. In addition, the page features interesting facts, statistics, and the symbolism of the flag.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Kenya Interactive Map

Description: This interactive map allows students to learn all about Kenya's cities, landforms, landmarks, and places of interest by simply clicking on the points of the map.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Mali Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the Sahara Desert nation of Mali. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Mali.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Mali Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Mali. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Algeria Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the Sahara Desert nation of Algeria. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Algeria.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Algeria Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Algeria. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Libya Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the Sahara Desert nation of Libya. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Mali.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Libya Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Libya. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Angola Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of Angola. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Angola.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Angola Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Angola. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Angola Printable Fact Sheet

Description: This is a colorful map of Angola with important facts. Perfect for reports and trifolds.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Morocco Printable Fact Sheet

Description: This is a colorful map of Morocco with important facts. Perfect for reports and trifolds.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Morocco Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Morocco. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tunisia Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the Sahara Desert nation of Tunisia. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Tunisia.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tanzania Interactive Map and Interesting Facts

Description: This interactive map allows students to click on the points of interest in Tanzania to learn detailed information. The page also includes the nation's flag and meaning, and ten interesting facts.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tanzania Outline Map

Description: This is a simple Tanzania Outline Map

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tanzania Label-me Map

Description: This colorful map requires students to label Tanzania's surrounding nations and features.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tunisia Printable Fact Sheet

Description: This is a colorful map of Tunisia with important facts. Perfect for reports and trifolds.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tunisia Printable Map

Description: This is a printable map of Tunisia. Perfect for coloring or labeling.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Morocco Interactive Map

Description: This is an interactive map of the Sahara Desert nation of Morocco. Students simply click on the points of the map to learn all about Morocco.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Nile River

Description: This is an article on the importance of the Nile River in ancient Egypt.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Nile River Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH: 409 Words; LEXILE: 810

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Serengeti Plain Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Mammals of Serengeti National Park Coloring

Description: This beautiful coloring sheet features ten mammals of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park: Jaguar, Cheetah, African Elephant, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Buffalo. Lion, and Gazelle.

Type: Science Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Interactive World Map and World Map Games

Description: This is an incredible map of the world that allows students to explore an interactive map of the world, or, play games testing their knowledge of the nations or waterways of the world. Works on all devices!

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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"The Ugly Five" - Important African Animals E-Book

Description: This e-books describes five less attractive African animals (Vulture, Hyena, Warthog, Maribou Stork, and the Wildebeest).

Type: Original Story

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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"The Big Five" - Important African Animals E-Book

Description: This e-books describes five endangered or threatened African animals (African Lion, Cape Buffalo, African Leopard, Black Rhinoceros and African Elephant).

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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"The Little Five" - Important African Animals E-Book

Description: This e-books describes five lesser known threatened African animals (Leopard Tortoise, Elephant Shrew, Buffalo Weaver, Antlion and Rhino Beetle).

Type: Original Story

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Cheetah Fact Sheet and Crossword Puzzle

Description: This is a printable fact sheet that describes the cheetah. It comes with a crossword puzzle!

Type: Science Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

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Gorilla Fact Sheet and Crossword

Description: This is a printable fact sheet that describes the Gorilla. It includes a brief crossword puzzle.

Type: Science Fun

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5

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Elephants Infographic

Description: This beautiful infographic describes the elephants of the world and the threats they face.

Type: Science Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Sahara Desert Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Sahara Desert Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Sahara Desert Sentence Puzzles

Description: This fun online activity requires students to re-arrange the words and punctuation to form a coherent sentence about the Sahara Desert. There are three total sentences. immediate feedback is given.

Type: Sentence Surgeons

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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African Savanna Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Type: Cloze Reading

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4

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Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 237 Words; LEXILE: 810

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 237 Words; LEXILE: 810

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Use as Assessment on Google Classroom.

Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Main Idea Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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Egypt Word Search - Online

Description: This is an online word search with Egypt-themed words. Choose with or without a timer.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Contextual Vocabulary Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

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Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Details Focus

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5

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The Great Sphinx of Giza Reading Comprehension

Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.

Type: Reading comprehension

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Egypt Label-me Map Quiz - Printable

Description: This resource requires students to label a numbered map of Egypt. Word bank is provided.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Egypt Interactive Scavenger Hunt

Description: This fun activity requires students to answer online questions using the Egypt interactive map. It gives immediate feedback.

Type: Scavenger hunts

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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World Detective - Online Game

Description: In World Detective, students select a continent and the "game" selects a secret country within the chosen continent. The player has six questions to try to guess the selected state. Users must generate "good" questions that allow them to eliminate as many incorrect states as they can per question. Students can ask questions regarding color or relative location. States that are eliminated are grayed out. For example, a good first question might be "is the country east of Germany?" If the answer were to be yes, all of the countries west of Germany would then be greyed out.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Egypt Label-me Map Quiz -Online

Description: This resource requires students to label a numbered map of Egypt. Immediate feedback is given.

Type: Map Exercise

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Conquer the Continents - Online Game

Description: How many nations can you identify from the chosen continent in 60 seconds?

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Coordinates Demonstration Video

Description: This is an embedded YouTube video that will show you how to play Coordinates.

Type: Instructional Video

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Coordinates - Online Game

Description: This awesome game is great for TEACHING latitude and longitude and world geography. In Coordinates, students learn latitude and longitude while learning the locations and names of the world’s nations. First, students are prompted to find the latitude coordinate. Once the latitude coordinate is found, the game locks the latitude position and the longitude lines animate into the map. Finally, students are prompted to find a point of longitude. If the clicked coordinates are close enough to the actual coordinates that they occur in the same nation, the student will have the opportunity to “guess” the name of the nation. If correct, students earn the flag of the nation that appears in the flags panel. Students also have 100 “coordinate points” to work with. If the actual coordinate is 95 degrees west and the student chooses 90 degrees, he or she will lose five coordinate points reducing the total, for example, to 95. The game ends when the student has no coordinate points left.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Map Scale - Online Game

Description: This fun online game reinforces the concept of map scale by challenging students to determine the distances between major world cities.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Continental Simon - Online Game

Description: This fun game functions just like the classic game Simon - the only difference is that students must remember the continents that light up rather than colors.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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International Pizza Delivery Demonstration Video

Description: This is embedded YouTube video that shows how to play International Pizza Delivery.

Type: Instructional Video

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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International Pizza Delivery - Online Game

Description: In International Pizza Delivery, users must delivery pizzas to all corners of the world using their latitude and longitude skills. The object is to delivery as many pizzas as possible in three minutes. For each successful delivery, the user earns the flag of the nation in which the pizza was delivered to. These flags may be printed out at the end of the game.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

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Collage World - Online

Description: This awesome resource allows students to make online collages featuring a continent of choice and its nations. Great world geography practice and collages print beautifully!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Temperature Map - Online Game

Description: How well can you add and subtract both positive and negative numbers? Temperature Map requires students to add and subtract both positive and negative numbers in specially-designed word problems to determine the temperatures of ten cities around the world. This game serves as an enjoyable way for students to practice adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, improve number sense, and to learn a little bit about world geography and climate, and each city’s temperature in the game is within the range of its actual normal temperatures in summer or winter.

Type: Math Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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World Deserts Interactive

Description: This awesome interactive map allows students to click on any of eleven major deserts of the world to learn all about them. It includes the Sahara, Kalahari, Gobi, Namib, Atacama, Patagonian, and others.

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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World Biomes Interactive

Description: This awesome interactive map allows students to click on any of the world's major biomes including polar, taiga (boreal forest), grassland, desert, temperate forest, tundra, and more!

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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