Middle and High School Geography Apps and Websites

Top geography resource site provides global exploration opportunities

Bottom Line: This is a must-bookmark site for classrooms across the curriculum hunting for inspiring place-based resources.

Google Earth-powered tours explore how stories and geography connect

Bottom Line: With some initial fiddling, this can be a good option to increase student interest in -- and add depth to -- literary study.

Geography trivia game balances facts and fun

Bottom Line: This is a clear go-to if you're looking to help students memorize state locations, shapes, capitals, history, and more.

Geography buffs can hone their knowledge of places, landmarks

Bottom Line: For kids who already know their geography, this is a good way to practice for geography bees, but for kids trying to learn, it can be daunting.

Map memorization drills offer comprehensive but monotonous coverage

Bottom Line: This is a great database of basic information about the world's countries; the repetitive drills will work for some kids and circumstances, but not others.

Kids travel the world, cultivate global curiosity and responsibility

Bottom Line: Kids get a sense of culture and global responsibility via kid-friendly articles and great multimedia.

Explore the world with an incredible new perspective and sense of scale

Bottom Line: An amazing experience that brings the world to life, despite the heavy investment in VR required.

Captivating, focused map activities support larger curricular lessons

Bottom Line: These inquiry-based activities are a valuable visual and investigative resource for teachers and students in many different subjects.

Addicting gameplay jazzes up geography

Bottom Line: Game-based platform can get kids interested in world geography and expose them to different cultures on a surface level.

Drill geography facts with oddly compelling, no-frills app

Bottom Line: A basic but useful way to drill and memorize geography basics.

World habitat app full of intriguing visual comparisons, useful data

Bottom Line: This biome reference app helps students get local when understanding their planet Earth.

Leave and locate hidden packages in a real-world treasure hunt

Bottom Line: Kids learn problem-solving, teamwork, and mapping skills, but the site doesn’t provide instruction or explanations for most of those topics; educators will have to fill in the gaps.

Pro-oriented storytelling and mapping tool has classroom potential

Bottom Line: Getting comfortable with StoryMapJS will require some focus, but students who take the time will gain a new perspective on digital storytelling.

Dazzling globe-trotting tool has endless classroom applications

Bottom Line: This tool defines engagement and offers a completely open-ended experience perfect for use across the educational spectrum.

Maps and more in this vast history, geography, and civics resource

Bottom Line: A well-rounded selection of helpful classroom and research materials; better organization would help kids navigate the site with ease.

Dazzling look at the world via an interactive atlas

Bottom Line: Credible resource for introducing students to the world, which is likely to encourage them to research areas of interest further.

Hugely popular mapping tool has tons of learning potential

Bottom Line: This familiar tool can go beyond here to there and take kids to new educational destinations.