The following changes have been made to the sites in the 2003 edition of Geography Online: Internet Student Activities. The changes have been added to the list of links for the book, so you can just go to that page and link directly to the new or modified sites when you use the book.

Activity 1: Landforms and Bodies of Water

B1) Please use this Grand Canyon site: http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/geologicformations.htm

Activity 2: Latitude and Longitude

A1) Instead of the Maps and Globes site, use "Where on Earth is Reykjavik??":  http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/geography/home.html

Activity 4: Maps: Different Ways to Show the Same Things

A) The Peters Projection map can be seen at http://www.petersmap.com.

C) Use http://www.microcolour.com/us008.htm to see a map of North America from 1650.

Activity 6: Volcanoes

A1) The USGS site is no longer available, but students may find information at http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html if they can't answer their questions at the Earthforce site.

Activity 11: English Around the World

Yahooligans! Around the World is now Yahoo Kids!: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World

Activity 13: Kids in Japan

A2) The Kids Window "Language Lab" has changed to Kids Web Japan "Language": http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language/index.html. Have students select Lesson 1 and click on "Japanese Characters." Then ask them to click on the word "chart" after "Hiragana" or "Katakana." Have them copy one of the characters on their worksheet. Then have them click on the character to hear it. They should proceed to answer the rest of the questions on page 60 of the book.

B1) "Welcome to Our School" has changed to Meet the Kids: http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/meet/index.html.

The Nagatsuka Elementary School page is no longer available.

Katoh Elementary School has changed to http://www.katoh-net.ac.jp/Elementary/a_day/kako.html

Web 66 is currently unavailable. We will let you know when and if it returns.

Activity 14: Life in the City

B1) Through the Eyes of a Child has changed to   http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/eyesOfAChild/eyes1.shtml.

C2) Abidjan, Ivory Coast has changed to http://members.virtualtourist.com/vt/s/?m=6&l.q=1e90fd

C3) The UNICEF Voices of Youth page is still worth looking at, but it no longer has the pictures of cities.

Activity 15: Old and New World Foods

A) The Seeds of Change Garden page has changed to http://www.mnh.si.edu/archives/garden/history

B) Native American recipes has changed to http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/recipes.html

The Middle Eastern Cookbook is gone, but use Epicurious Middle Eastern Recipes: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/browse/results?type=browse&att=20

Brazilian Cuisine (Maria’s Cookbook) has changed to http://www.maria-brazil.org/brazilian_recipes.htm

Activity 18: Where in the World?

B1) The Biome Map is no longer available. The Biomes of the World ("What's It Like Where You Live?") page has changed to http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/index.htm

Activity 19: Helping the Earth and Its People

A) 7 Steps for Kids to Take has changed to http://www.ran.org/new/kidscorner/kid_s_action/7_steps_kids_can_take

C) UNICEF Kids' Cards is no longer available.