A nice geography lesson is to have students plan a trip to some
location (or locations). There are several web tools that make
doing this pretty easy — it’s just a matter of identifying where
you want to go, looking through the sites to see in those
places, and then “dragging-and-dropping” them onto a list that
you can subsequently post on a student or teacher website/blog.
Most of these sites also allow you to write a description of
your trip (and why you chose the places you did), but students
can do the same on their own site, too. Even better, most of
these sites also let users comment on places they have visited,
which make them an excellent place for students to write for an
authentic audience about locations they have really visited
(which can include local spots). Here are the sites that I think
are most accessible to English Language Learners and let them
plan these kinds of virtual trips (not in order of preference):
Tripwolf just today announced a revamping of their site that
makes it much more acc