Geography class project on map reading skills
Map coordinates on an OS map
A interactive video tutorial about map reading
A guide to map making for more able Primary Geographers (examples are American)
Otter B. Goode explains the history of the Wilderness Act, the Clean Water Act, and most specifically the National Wild & Scenic Rivers System.
This informative site for high-school students is part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Science for Schools project.
Discover the basics of rivers and how they are formed.
This excellent lesson for middle and high-school students covers watersheds, surface runoff, water pollution, how streams become rivers, river zones, river creatures and hydroelectric power.
Fact Monster: Principal Rivers of the World 4 stars The Fact Monster almanac lists the fifty-five biggest rivers in the world, with links to additional articles about most of them.
Surfnetkids.com recommends sites about rivers.
Top 33 of the world's strangest homes - possibly for use in a topic on "Houses and Homes" or indeed as a stimulus for creative writing.