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eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The P H Scale

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site explores the pH scale and its characteristics including a chart mapping the various levels of the scale.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Maps are designed to allow people to travel to a new location without a guide to show the way. They tell us information about areas to which we may or may not have ever been. There are many types of maps available for both recreational...
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Map Your World

For Students 2nd - 8th
Students can follow these easy steps to develop a model (drawing) of their room and the things in it. Then they can broaden the drawing to include their entire floor, apartment, or house.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson that teaches students how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template is linked.
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Interactive
University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Interactive Nolli Map of Rome: 1748 Map of Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive Nolli Map introduces students to Rome and the structure of its urban form based on the work of eighteenth-century Italian architect Giambattista Nolli. Using the map engine, navigate through the city at a variety of scales,...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Shapes: Maps and Plans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how maps and plans use shapes to visualize things.
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Website
Curated OER

History Matters: Making Sense of Maps

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Very detailed site from History Matters containing an explanation of how to read maps and understand them. An excellent resource for teachers. The site covers how to begin, how to use a scale, how to create a flat map for a round world,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Map Sense

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the basic components of maps: legend, scale, Compass rose and labels. Clips from United Streaming video are included to illustrate these concepts. Student assessment and a student...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.g Map Distance

For Teachers 7th Standards
This lesson plan has students solve problems using scale drawings on a map.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dilations: Scale Factor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find both the center and the scale factor of a dilation that maps a given figure to another one. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity is specifically designed for a field trip to Drayton Hall, which is a historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. It does provide a model of how a similar activity could be designed for a local area, and there are...
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Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Quaternary Glacio Fluvial History of the Upper Midwest Using Anaglyph Stereo Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the anaglyph stereo map and use textures to generate a surficial geology map of the Upper Midwest. They can then interpret the textures in terms of landforms, geomorphic features, and earth-surface processes, as well as...
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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Map and Compass Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Science Scope article presents an activity on topography and land masses that helps students learn about scientific inquiry. Students also practice making and interpreting scale drawings and learning about computation, estimation and new...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Final Project Map Skills

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.
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Graphic
Other

University of Connecticut: The Geographer's Craft: Map Projection Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced overview of map projections with illustrative graphics. Created by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin in 1995.

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