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Volcano Contour Models Activity and Tracing the Highs and Lows in San Francisco

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate how to draw topographic contours and read topographic maps.They examine the topography of San Francisco and contrast the elevation of different points within San Francisco.
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Tracing Highs and Lows in San Francisco

For Teachers 9th - 12th
On a topographic map, young scholars identify the scale bar, north arrow, and contour interval. They then locate a hill on the map and make note of the contour lines. Students then locate other places with similar contour line patterns....
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Water Monitoring Vocabulary

For Teachers 7th - 12th
As the title implies, this is a list of vocabulary terms relating to water monitoring. If your ecology class is learning about how to test water quality, this will be an appropriate reference sheet for them. As a bonus, if you live in...
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Hungary: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in small groups to create a topographic map of Hungary. The map will include labeled line drawing of the bordering countries. Hungary should be three dimensional, made of salt and flour clay. The mountains, plains and...
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Italy: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in small groups to create a topographic map of Italy. They must include labeled line drawings of bordering countries and bodies of water. Students use salt and flour clay to make Italy three dimensional, showing the many...
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Forcasting the Path of Mudflows

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students visualize consistency of mudflows and how they move down stream valleys away from a volcano's summit. They use topographic maps of Mount St. Helens before the 1980 eruptions to forecast the path mudflows might take during an...
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The Delicate Balance - Iowa's Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. In this environmental lesson, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an Iowa name...
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Listen to the Land

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover how we use land. They gain insight into the way we use the land, both for benefit and consequence. Students explore how to 'listen to the land' as they make decisions on how it should be used and the consequences of...
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Understanding a Geological Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify different types of maps and observe a geological map.  In this geology lesson students create a replica map of a geological area that includes a key. 
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Geologic Mapping I

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create a geologic map and cross-section of an area of horizontal sedimentary rocks, exposed in several locations. Map must include a complete key or legend with rock descriptions of the various formations.
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MAPPING THE TOPOGRAPHY OF UNKNOWN SURFACES

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students describe in words and graphic displays the elevation or depression profile of sections of Mars' Olympus Mons and/or Valles Marineris. They explain how orbiting spacecraft build up global maps one data slice at a time.
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Surveying the Land

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the different kinds of maps and the purpose of each.  In this Geography lesson, students work in small groups to create a map which includes the use of a map key.
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Silk Roads Big Map

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students create an oversized map from Europe to East Asia. They include information such as Silk Roads, geographical features, major cities and cultural information on their map.
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Forest Fun

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners explore orienteering and how to use a compass. They explore the importance of forests and identify some of the trees in a local forest.
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Cookie Mapping

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the components of a bedrock geology map through a hands-on activity involving a cookie and graph paper.
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Map It!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collect and explore different maps and their uses before using the program Pixie to create maps of geographic features, political features, and economic information for the state in which they live.
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Lesson 8: Changes in Deerfield, Massachusetts Shown in Maps

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study maps of the same area from different time periods which show the ways in which the land stayed the same, and the ways this New England village changed over the years.
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Finding Longitude and Latitude on Pennsylvania Maps

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students draw the lines of longitude and latitude on a map. Students look at a topographical maps to see how topography relates to land use.
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Continents and Oceans on the Move

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners create an awareness of the vast percentage of water covering the earth. They relate similarities/differences between topographical maps and other maps of various time periods. Students examine how to use a topographical map.
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TE Activity: The Trouble with Topos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the uses of topographical maps including the many forms that they take. They discover that the map features show its intended use such as city maps, wilderness maps, and state maps. They complete a worksheet in which they...
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Geography of the Harbor

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study estuaries and their boundaries.  In this investigative lesson students locate an estuary on a map and use nautical and topographical maps. 
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Gilligan's Island

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate topographical maps and match actual landforms to them.  In this topographical maps instructional activity students create "Gilligan's Island" to scale then answer questions about it such as what the highest...
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Mapping My Trip to the 2002 Winter Olympics!

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders map their route from their local community to Salt Lake City, Utah for the Winter Olympics. Using atlases, they gather topographical information and use the internet to research any landmarks they might pass on the way....
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Waldseemuller's Map: World 1507

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders analyze various maps.  For this Geography lesson, 7th graders create a large map as a whole class.  Students write a letter to Mr. Waldseemuller. 

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