Schools in the counties of Riverside, Inyo, Mono, and San Bernardino have an opportunity for a free trial of Maps101 through August 31, 2009.

Maps101 is a subscription-based online educational social studies resource with thousands of static and animated maps, World & U.S. atlases, exclusive current events articles, lesson plans, educational quizzes/games; and with their new National Geographic digital content alliance offers hundreds of  National Geographic archived maps and video shorts bringing an unsurpassed level of engaging, instructional material to essentially every classroom.
 
A summary of the content of Maps101 includes:

• 6,000 pre-formatted Maps to project, upload to PowerPoint and easy-to-print
• up-to-date Reference Atlases for every country in the world and all 50 states
• daily and weekly award-winning Current Events Articles
• over 200 Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans
• engaging Educational Games, Quizzes and so much more
• aligned with National Geographic content (an additional 800 Maps and 358 Videos)

Please contact Mary Minore, Maps101 California Representative, at 800-929-4627 ext. 114 for a username and password for the free trial. Also, brief online demonstrations (individual or group) are available by contacting Mary Minore.