Harvard University
Harvard University: Maps and Mapping
This site is provided for by Harvard University. Students follow a map on a scavenger hunt, create a map of their classroom and their town, learn how to read topographic maps, and discover latitude and longitude in these inquiry activities.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.
Mathematics for Teaching
Mathematics for Teaching: What Is a Coordinates System?
Discusses a coordinate system, including coordinates and quadrants on a coordinate plane. A GeoGebra activity is provided.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Location on the Earth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using latitude and longitude to find a location.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Plane Ole Plottinghttp
Students will develop an understanding of the Cartesian plane through questioning and reasoning. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the four quadrants within the coordinate system.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Function Flyer
This activity allows the manipulation of the constants and coefficients in any function thereby encouraging the user to explore the effects on the graph of the function by changing those numbers.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: Position
Students will play an interactive game to explore maps, routes, and locations of objects.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position and Directions
Meet Calypso the fish and go to the underwater world to learn more about position on maps.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: What Are Maps?
Defines what maps are and provides illustrations and related links to a site devoted to cartography.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Coordinate System
A coordinate system such as latitude/longitude is an example of absolute location. Links to Greenwich/Prime Meridian.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Interpreting Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart provides information about interpreting graphs and the parts of a coordinate grid.