The Association of American Geographers has received a $683,536 grant from the National Science Foundation to produce a compact disk (CD) and a set of related student activities called ARGWorld (Activities and Readings in the Geography of the World) for secondary school World Geography courses. Directed by Phil Gersmehl (University of Minnesota) and David Hill (University of Colorado, Boulder), the project will involve large number of geographers in the United States and overseas.

The materials will consist of an interactive CD and a set of related student activities. The CD will be suitable for classroom use with a projector as well as individual student use. Both the CD and the activities will be issues-oriented. They will make extensive use of original maps, remotely-sensed imagery, and links to relevant Websites and other sources of real-world geographic information. Each CD unit will also feature many photographs, interactive maps, and animated explanations of key concepts of scientific geographic analysis. ARGWorld will be Published in 2003.