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How Far Away
Students investigate how a historic map drawn in the early days of interstate automobile travel represented distances. They measure distance within their personal space.
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New Perspectives
Students examine maps that are designed to give different perspectives. They create mental maps that illustrate their own perspectives and those of people from other parts of the world.
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Map Stratego
Students determine strategic locations for defense against attack. They use a core map to analyze coast lines and distances to develop a strategic defense plan for the U.S. during World War II.
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Making a Point
Students become familiar with maps as insights to new perspectives. They also evaluate maps that were designed to express a perspective. They explain the qualities of an equidistant azimuthal projection
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Come One, Come All
Students analyze information from core map and other sources and construct routes from New York and Boston to Cincinnati as they might have existed in 1835.
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Keeping a Travel Diary
Students recognize ways that transportation has changed over time, analyze ways that changes in transportation have an impact on communities, and evaluate the role of transportation in transforming a region.
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Mapping Relationships in a Community
Young scholars consider aspects of map drawn about 1721 by a Native American for presentation to British governor of South Carolina, compare it to a European explorer's map, and use it as a model to create a map to explain their...
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Mapping an Encounter
Students recognize aspects of a historical map drawn around 1721 by a Native American for presentation to British governor of South Carolina, compare it to European map of the same period, and create map that shows relationships of...
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A First Encounter
Students identify symbols for ocean and land features, describe differences between Polynesians and Europeans of the 18th century, describe differences between people of the eighteenth century and today, and identify the four cardinal...
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Same Place/Different Maps
Students compare qualities of European and Native American mapping, represent relationships of their own on a map, and draw conclusions about a map's purpose.
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Promoting tourist attractions in Los Angeles
Students develop a tourist brochure for a recreational activity in Los Angeles. They read brochures and maps and identify key components.
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Mapping the Border
Learners create maps of the borderland region. They decorate their maps with colors, pictures, icons, scenes, words that reflect their understanding of the character and history of the borderland.
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The Battle of Brandywine
Students explore the Battle of Brandywine, how to analyze maps, and construct a model of a battlefield.
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Asian Civilizations
Seventh graders complete computer based research to complete a travel brochure that highlights an Asian civilization.
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Other kinds of groups- part 4 of 5
Students compare and contrast characteristics of groups. Students create graphs using various symbols of different groups. Students make maps of their neighborhood 'groups'.
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Lesson Plan on Map Skills for South Asia
Seventh graders observe and discuss an overhead transparency map of South Asia. In small groups, they label a blank map of South Asia, and listen to a lecture on the realm.
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COLD SEA WATERS
Learners examine how old sea waters affected the local and state area during the summer of 1998. Studying a detailed web-site helps students examine sea temperatures.
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Zones of Conflict
Students read maps and identify specific countries involved in conflict. They classify countries in cultural realms. They relate maps to what they know about world conflict.
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SAMMY DISCOVERS SHAPES AT SCHOOL
Students study maps and use them for real world experiences.
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Latin American Relief Map
Students, in groups, research, design and construct a relief map of a section of Latin America using papier-mache. They show major landforms, elevations and notable bodies of water. They present their maps to the class.
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Navigating by Landmarks
Third graders examine and apply the relationship between concrete landmarks, abstract written directions, and graphic representations on maps, and then develop their own landmark map for classroom use.
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Creating a Map for Future Reference
Students use Web and other resources to create maps of either the site of their day trip, their final destination, the entire trip, or some combination of these.
