Three geography links

Google Earth is a wonderful tool for exploring Earth. You can see areas in detail and zoom in quite close to pretty much anywhere, this free program guarantees hours upon hours of educational fun. Google Earth works on the Mac too, yay!

GNIS which is short for Geographic Names Information System, is great for looking up data on different locations, names and other information like elevation. Just type in a name of a place (ie. Fairfax) and you get numerous results. You can define your search narrowing down the results as well. It is interesting to see that there are many places in the United States with the same name and you can find lots of places not found in a regular map.

Measurement conversion factors is an easy stop for all the assignments that require you to convert from the english system to the metric system and so on. The web site is very simple and nothing fancy but includes lots of information.