Curated OER
Trekking to Timbuktu
Students view a television show to provide a context for conducting research into the location and culture of Timbuktu. The students complete a report on the subject in the form of a research paper.
Curated OER
Vocabulary Review: Completing Sentences
In this vocabulary worksheet, students check the word that will correctly complete a sentence, 7 sentences. Students choose from 4 words.
Read Works
Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
City University of New York
Virtual Geology: Maps Home Page: Topic and Quiz Menus
This collection of resources cover map topics and includes quizzes for improving map and globe usage skills.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Political and Military History: Map 15: The World at War, 1944
Lesson for K-12 using historical map teaches students about the relationship between perspectives of the world and map projections.
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Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Education: Create a Globe [Pdf]
Simple instructions on how to make a globe using a pattern provided, scissors, glue, and a balloon. PDF
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Color Maps
An activity where young scholars study the Ozone Hole poster used that brings together colorful images of over 30 years of satellite observations of the ozone hole. Students interpret the color on the globes to see how the ozone hole has...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Maps Globe Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses landforms, mapping and the Compass Rose. Students can practice using Cardinal Directions and use Activotes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
NOAA
Noaa: Ngdc: Images, Visualizing Data
The National Geophysical Data Center has transformed extensive ocean research into colorful video, 3D maps, charts posters and more! This site starts off with a film clip of a dive into the Marianas trench and then lead you to other...
Curated OER
1846 Globe
This online lesson plan shows students through primary sources how the borders of the U.S. changed in just a few years. They are asked to analyze maps and use map skills. All maps and worksheets are included as well as additional resources.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Google Earth
A demo presentation using Google Earth to fly around the world, visiting notable visitor points around the globe.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Seasonal Temperature Pattern Variation in Different Regions of the World
Learners use GLOBE climate science visualizations to display student data on maps and to learn about seasonal changes in regional and global temperature patterns.
Other
Boat Safe Kids: Longitude and Latitude
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Titanic's Lost Sister: Camera Overboard!
Learn about different diving equipment in order to determine which would be most useful in recovering a sunken object and exploring underwater. Find a location on a globe or map using latitude and longitude coordinates.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Come With Me to the Islands
Students will explore several islands by watching a multimedia presentation prepared by the teacher on islands and how they were formed. Students will then use globes and maps to find various islands using cardinal directions given by...
NASA
Space Math: Nasa Satellite "Sees" Carbon Dioxide [Pdf]
Using this map from NASA you can calculate the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Solve the four problems and you will see how concentrations are spread across the globe and where there are regional differences.