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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Shapes on the Coordinate Plane

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this exercise, students practice identifying shapes on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map

For Students 4th - 6th
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
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Activity
Social Studies for Kids

Social Studies for Kids: Latitude and Longitude

For Students 5th - 8th
A collection of latitude and longitude mapping activities ranging from pin-pointing exact locations on the globe to researching the history behind this basic geography concept.
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Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Dinosaurs: Angles and Position on a Map

For Students 4th Standards
Students will play learning games to practice moving on a coodinate plane.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Maps and Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Mapping Fireprints

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this diverse lesson has students perform linear regression analysis (to compare two fire variables), check three-dimensional points using a planar equation, and evaluate points to determine...
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Handout
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Coordinate System

For Students 9th - 10th
A coordinate system such as latitude/longitude is an example of absolute location. Links to Greenwich/Prime Meridian.
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Handout
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: What Are Maps?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines what maps are and provides illustrations and related links to a site devoted to cartography.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plotting Points in Alabama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will be able to use coordinates to find locations of specific cities on a map of Alabama.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Try to locate famous landmarks using latitude and longitude coordinates in this interactive classroom activity.
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Other

Boat Safe Kids: Longitude and Latitude

For Students 9th - 10th
This website starts at the very beginning and explains how round globes are transferred to flat maps. Then they explain the use of longitude and latitude.
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Handout
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Projections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understanding map projections is an important map-reading skill. Features graphics and links to examples of many different projections and an activity on making a Mercator projection.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of a map. There are also many links about related map topics, included on this MathWorld site.
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecular Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced explanation of the valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory describes specific molecular models involving digonal, trigonal, tetrahedral, and octahedral coordination, as well as central atoms with five bonds....
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically,...
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Particle Worldline Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation exploring the behavior of particles as they approach a black hole using Schwarzschild coordinates.
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Activity
NOAA

Noaa: Follow That Hurricane [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Utilize data from historical hurricanes and a map of areas around the Atlantic Ocean to plot the paths of these potentially devastating storms.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Capacity and Position

For Students 4th - 5th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include comparing capacity of three or more containers, using compass directions to describe locations, and using...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: Position

For Students 2nd - 4th
Students will play an interactive game to explore maps, routes, and locations of objects.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position and Directions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Meet Calypso the fish and go to the underwater world to learn more about position on maps.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Volume of Pyramids: Midpoint Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of midpoints and segment bisectors by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: American Population, 1790

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the original thirteen States in 1790 showing the distribution of the European-American population at the time and the general tribal lands of the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. The map shows the State lines,...

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