Social Media Ideas for Geography Lessons

Is There Any Geography Teacher Who WON’T Use This NY Times Article In Class?

  Yesterday, The NY Times published an article headlined War Is Forcing the World to Reckon With Geography’s Power. Though I wouldn’t use the entire article in the ELL Geography cl...

20 Geography Lies You’ve Heard About The United States

Your Geography Teacher Left a Few Things Out…

The Value of Using Grade 7/8 Modified Geography Lessons in a Split Grade Classroom

Teaching a split grade already means a teacher’s attention is stretched, and they have to find ways to balance the needs of many individual learners. On top of two grade levels, te...

Trivia Quiz: Textbook Knowledge (Landforms)

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Sep 24, 2026 A Geography Quiz : How well do you know your geographical landforms? Take this quiz to find out. 1. What is a glacier?2. What...

Mastering World Geography With Hollywood And Global Black Icons

Interested in world geography? Make learning even more exciting by tracking the international heritage of Hollywood and global Black icons. The post Mastering World Geography With...

Geology Class

New England Is Packed With Surprising Geography Facts

Quiz: Could You Pass an 8th-Grade Geography Test? We Bet You Can't

Test your geography knowledge against an average 13-year-old's with this geography quiz, fit for tweens and people of all ages looking to brush up on their geography skills.

Book Review: Borders

My brother went through a phase where he was obsessed with maps. He loved to look at maps and he would draw maps of places real and imagined. He even drew maps that followed our ro...

Have You Had Your Five a Day?

Cartographers generally agree that there are significant benefits to viewing at least five maps or globes every day. Regular map consumption can help improve your geographical awar...

Why the Maps of London, Tokyo, New York, and Other Major Cities Look the Way They Do

If you’re trying to understand a city, its map isn’t a bad place to start. Today, of course, we can call up an accurate map of practically any part of any city at any time we like,...

15-Minute Lesson Plan: Weather Data

What do you notice when you compare the weather of 1978 with that of 2015?

World geography gotchas

Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d’Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany. Bot...

9 Best Geography and Map Games for Kids

When I began looking for the best geography and map games for kids, I did not want nine versions of the same flag quiz. Place names matter, but geography should also build a sense...

Wednesday Bible Study: Geography lesson

In chapter 10, Paul is mostly trying to convert the Jews. But in verses 16 through 18 he claims (quoting a psalm) that everyone on earth has had the chance to hear the Gospel news....

Lake Ontario to 'Lake America': Who gets to decide what goes on maps?

A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.

Trivia Quiz: From Sea to Sea 8

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Sep 08, 2026 A Geography > United States Quiz : How well do you know the geography of the United States? 1. Two eastern states have maj...

GeoFactGuessr

FactMap is the latest map game to be a little like GeoGuessr. However instead of guessing the locations of random Street View images, in this game you need to point to the location...

The Fascinating Geography Of The Rocky Mountains

The USA geography in your Rails app

https://claudiob.github.io/usa/

Planning a geo nerd trip

Today I ran across an article about Vienna’s Globe Museum. That reminded me I’ve never been to Vienna before. Now I definitely need to go: Looking at old maps is an aesthetic expe...

Which Country is Bigger? The Map Decides

Since the UN General Assembly voted to promote equal-area projections such as Equal Earth as an alternative to the familiar Mercator projection, there have been a number of interes...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 27, 2026): Getting There

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 27, 2026): Getting ThereQ: Name a well-known U.S. geographic location in six letters. Move the last letter two places earlier in the name and you'll get a re...