Websites

Seterra Geography: Seterra Geography is a geography quiz app (iOS, Android) and website that helps students memorize country and city locations, flags, and capitals. It's pretty straightforward. Students select from a list of possible quizzes. There are maps for every major region of the world as well as for membership in different international organizations (e.g., the OECD or United Nations), dominant language (e.g., Spanish-speaking countries), and population. Within a region like Asia, maps can get quite specific; for example, former members of the Soviet Union, or the provinces of China.

World Geography Games: World Geography Games is a collection of quizzes that test kids' ability to locate various geographical features on digital maps. There's a fair amount of content here, though none of it goes very deep: continents, states, countries, rivers, oceans, deserts, mountains; even atmospheric layers. Students click on a category -- say, U.S. States -- to bring up an unlabeled map. The game cycles through questions like "Where is Rhode Island?" while students try to click the correct answer. They'll hear a buzzer if they click the wrong place.

Planet Geo: Planet Geo - geography games for kids & teenagers is a game and information app that tests kids' knowledge of many countries, dozens of cities, and UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, in eight languages. The maps, information about the sites, and cool photos enliven the geography games and can grab kids' attention by turning names and locations into places where interesting things have happened throughout history. Choose a country or continent puzzle (easy or difficult level), a country-to-continent matching game, a "geo book" that provides lots of details about a country or city, or World Heritage Site locator games.

Stack the Countries : Stack the Countries is a world geography app that helps kids learn the major distinguishing facts about 193 countries. Through flashcards and games, kids discover and memorize the shapes, capitals, landmarks, major cities, borders, and more. The more than 1,000 questions and multiple difficulty levels make this app suitable for a wide age range. Kids can choose continents, which can help set difficulty level. To play the game, kids simply read questions and choose an answer from four different country choices provided. If players answer the question correctly, they get to "drop" the country onto the waiting pedestal. If players answer incorrectly, the correct country is highlighted and it tells the player (via a cartoon bubble) that it is the correct answer.

Map Master: MapMaster is a geography quiz and study app. From the main screen, users encounter six buttons: Pinpoint Game, Time Attack, Study Mode, Multiplayer, Achievements, and Leaderboards. Three of those buttons lead to game options: Pinpoint Game (where users drop a pin on a site on a map) and Time Attack (which is the Pinpoint game, but timed) are the two main games, and users can play against other people online via the Multiplayer menu. Each game lets users sort which geographic features or sites they'd like to be tested on: Choices include national capitals, U.S. cities, famous places, and landmarks.

Encyclopedia of Arkansas : The CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a free, authoritative source of information about the rich history, geography, and culture of Arkansas. It is updated regularly to ensure the people of Arkansas have an accurate and accessible resource to explore our heritage. It will also benefit people outside the state who are seeking information about Arkansas. We invite you to browse our text entries and media galleries to learn more about the people, places, events, legends, and lore of the 25th state. The CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a work in progress. We are continually adding new entries, photographs, maps, videos, and audio files, so check back frequently to see what’s new.

Arkansas Heritage: The Division of Arkansas Heritage (DAH) was created in 1975 to preserve and promote Arkansas’s natural and cultural heritage as a source of pride and enjoyment for all. The original legislation named the agency the "Department of Arkansas Natural and Cultural Heritage" and grouped together culturally oriented divisions in one department. The agency name was changed to its current title in 1985.

ATU - Arkansas History: Links to important Arkansas attributes and centers, as well as historical archives.

UA Center for Arkansas History and Culture :The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture strives to be a unique and reliable resource that explores and promotes Arkansas’s rich history through identifying, collecting, and preserving records that are of enduring value to the state. Our donors will know that we are good stewards of their materials. As a cutting-edge leader in archival practice and education, we will prepare students, the metropolitan area, and the state for the 21st century. Professionals will seek our collaboration on best practices and archival technologies, and we will be a good neighbor to other libraries, archives, and museums. We will provide access to a large repository of archival materials, and the public will be able to use these records to gain a better understanding of Arkansas’s journey—where our state has been and how our history can guide the state’s future.

Historic Sites: Interactive guide to Arkansas history and heritage.

EDSITEment! : EDSITEment is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities that offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, civics, language, art, architecture, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.

TedED: TedED provides a generous repository of short animated videos on subjects ranging from the Vestal Virgins to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The videos are accompanied by guided discussions and short quizzes.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Gilder Lehrman offers Lesson Plans, Primary Source Documents, Online Exhibitions featuring engaging images, and other content to enrich at-home learning, organized by time period and topic.

Center for History and New Media: CHNM produces historical works in new media, tests their effectiveness in the classroom, and reflects critically on the success of new media in historical practice. CHNM provides links to their excellent online history resources, such as Eagle Eye Citizen–an interactive site for learning about the constitution–and History Matters, a site with U.S. History articles and lesson plans. Resources are designed to benefit professional historians, high school teachers, and students of history.

Digital History: A great new site that includes: a U.S. history e-textbook; over 400 annotated documents, primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; short essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site’s Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.