Rand McNally Classroom

What is Rand McNally Classroom?

Rand McNally Classroom is designed to support classroom instruction in social studies, geography, and history. The site is teacher- and student-friendly, easy-to-use, and loaded with curriculum relevant maps, games and activities, and teaching materials for K-12 classrooms. Accessible at school or at home, it contains more than 1,800+ reference, special topic, and history maps from the world down to your very own community, which can be printed, viewed, and saved. The reference content has been developed exclusively by Rand McNally editors and cartographers to ensure accuracy, and the site is free from advertisements.

The site's new interactive features will engage your students while lesson plans and assessments will help you effectively implement all the site has to offer. Ties to the 18 National Geography Standards, it features interactive games & activities as well as dozens of lesson plans whose goal is to actively engage students in geography, social studies, and history.

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Our Online Classroom Makes the Grade

Online Maps
Reference, thematic, and outline maps—covering everything from the world down to your very own community.

Special Topics Maps
Cross-curricular earth science and history maps, including NEW interactive maps that bring history alive.

Reference Articles
Overviews, facts, and statistics that are perfect for student research.

Teacher Tools
Dozens of lesson plans and assessments that can be edited, printed, and saved.

Correlated to State Standards
A new correlation search tool shows you how the site's individual content items directly align with your state standards and shows you how to integrate the site across the curriculum in reading, math, science, and social studies.

Games & Activities
Interactive games and activities that are fun as well as educational.

Current Events & Special Features
"Weekly Buzz" articles, "Traveling Teddies" postcards, and "Where in the World" photo clues.