Geography Links
Here are a variety of links that might be useful when doing research for geography projects:
Demographics, Population, and Migration Links
Maps and Cartography Links
Political Geography, Gov't Sites, and Int'l Organizations
Fundamentals of Geography This is an excellent overview of many of the themes and subjects we cover in human geography. Not only are the topics outlines, but almost every topics has at least one (most have several) links to sites which explain the themes. This annotated outline and links page is updated reularly by a professor at Northeastern University. Every site he links that I have checked-out is quite good. This would be a good place to review for the AP Exam, or get straight on a topic that is still confusing. Better yet is the syllabus for Professor Ziehr's classes, which includes some excellent exam stdy guides and practice multiple choice questions: Good Place for AP Review
Professor Zoran Kilibarda has a very good set of lecture notes on his website for his Human Geography course at Indiana University Northwest. You might use some of these lectures to review topics we have studied.
Professor Leslie Duram at Southern Illinois University also maintains an good site to accompany her course, Introduction to Human Geography. She has brief lectures outlines, but also a comprehensive list of terms, which might be a good review for students in AP Human Geography.
Geography--University of Nebraska at Omaha There are a lot of interesting geography courses here, but the most useful one for AP Human Geography students is Professor Peterson's World Regional Geography course. Part I review many of the topics we have studied, and then you can see these topics in practice across the world in parts II, III, and IV.
A-Z Geography This is kind of like a geography encyclopedia from the Discovery Channel. It might be a good place to get an overview of a place or region at the outset of a research project. Within each entry, it also contains links to things like country national anthems, statisical data, and images.
Geography from bigchalk.com. This is an enormous collection of links and research on geography topics of all sorts. This is probably a good place to start if you are trying to think of a topic for a project. Click on GEOGRAPHY under the Social Sciences category.
Geography Resources at the University of Colorado, Boulder This is a very comprehensive, and nicely organized, collection of links to geography sites on the web. This might be a good place to go to begin looking for hard data for a project.
Introduction to Human Geogrpahy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs This site, from Professor Michael Solem, contains a number of very good PowerPoint lectures on several topics we have studied in our class. This might be a good place to review.
Geography at About.com This is a lot like bigchalk site. Basically, it is a collection of links to site on the web. The links on the site though are well organized, so you can get a set of links for relatively subject specific topics.
FAO The website of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. This is one of the best websites for research I have ever seen. The amount of information, and the quality of the preesentation, is phenomenal! An excellent source for information on agriculture, economic development, demographics, gender, and almost any other geographic issue you can think of. There are over 3,000 pictures, statistical databases, and a plethora of other non-text docuements as well.
WRI-Home The website of the World Resources Institute is incredible. It is so vast I will not try to summarize it here; but you should go there for data, information, and analysis on almost any issue related to the envrionment, even tangentially.
National Geographic This is the website for the National Geogrpahic Society, which publishes the magazine, produces the TV show, and is involved in a varitey of projects around the world. The magaizes are not published on-line, although you can search the contents and see images from the magazine.
Just Another Medical Geography Page This is a pretty neat site, with a good overview of the issues involved in medical geography. The links at the bottom of the pages are hit or miss, but the links within the text are pretty good. For HIV/AIDS, try the links on this medical geography iste, AEGIS, the international organizations on the Political Geography, Gov't Sites, and Int'l Organizations page, or the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, as starting points.
I would also take a look at some of the news sites, especially CNN and The BBC, if I were doing a geography project. These sites contain much more than just "today's headlines.
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