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Education Planet Partners With Maps.com to Launch Social Studies PlanetSocial Studies Planet integrates Education Planet's quality social studies resources with Maps.com's exclusive map and geography education products. Social Studies Planet provides teachers, students and parents convenient access to over 75,000 teacher-approved social studies sites, lessons, maps, supplies, and books. Visit Social Studies Planet at www.maps.com/education. "By combining Education Planet's premium content with Maps.com's Web presence we have created a subject area specific portal," said Jim Hurley, chief executive officer of Education Planet. "The Maps.com partnership illustrates the opportunity for Education Planet to serve vertical audiences as well as the broader K-12 community." "Maps.com is a tremendous resource for students, teachers and parents," said Chris Baker, CEO of Maps.com. "Social Studies Planet provides our users additional value, by integrating subject-specific resources and links to approved learning resources." About Education Planet Education Planet is a rapidly expanding network of education portals for the K-12 community. Education Planet provides K-12 teachers, students, parents and administrators with resources and services such as educational Web sites, lesson plans, Web-based curriculum, software, videos, supplies, maps, books, learning games, online shopping, e-school fundraising and teacher professional development courses. With over 300,000 quality educational resources including 100,000 teacher-approved Web sites and 16,000 lesson plans, Education Planet holds the AOL "Editor's Pick" award and the "Editor's Choice" award from Netscape. To find out more about Education Planet visit www.educationplanet.com. About Maps.com Maps.com is a mapping solutions company serving the consumer, education and business marketplaces. The flagship Web site Maps.com is a vertical portal combining travel and reference resources with the Web's leading online map store. The popular site attracted more than 1,000,000 unique visitors in April and is rated the fastest growing site in the map category (PC Data Online, April 2000). The company serves the education market with Web-based products for the classroom, Maps101.com(tm) and Geographynews.com(tm). CONTACT: Education Planet Roslyn Gillespie, 805/899-4966 ext.2 roslyn@educationplanet.com or Maps.com Gary Woods, 805/685-3100 ext.123 gary@maps.com www.Maps.com |
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