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124 Cartography Lesson Plans

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Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students build a model of a water system from the source to users and read and interpret a water meter. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
5 Stars

Students explore, using journals and discussion in small groups, how the universe has evolved since the theoretical Big Bang and create dramatizations of various eras in cosmic evolution. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th
Rating
4 Stars

Students examine the artifacts imbedded in this plan and consider how vital the information was to early travelers. They use the guiding questions to help you draw conclusions about the maps. They share their findings with the class. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students work together to research and create different types of maps of the United States to be used as part of a geography trivia game.Groups research North American annual rainfall, climate, mountain ranges major rivers and state borders. Full Review »

Grade Range
7th - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

Students discuss the Revolution and consider the causes of the war, the attitudes of the colonists, and the position of the British. Then students explore American involvement in wars since the country's inception. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students explore how arbitrary borders affect communities by participating in two hands-on activities and by reading about and discussing a community divided by national borders. They investigate the borders of their own neighborhoods. Full Review »

Grade Range
5th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students extract geographical and historical information from the lyrics of a popular song, make associations between people, places, and events, and plot their information on a map. Full Review »

Grade Range
6th - 8th
Rating
4 Stars

Students review the parts of a dictionary definition and compare it to a thesaurus entry. They create mini-dictionaries using the Internet and a word processor. Full Review »

Grade Range
7th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students use paper, ruler, protractor and compass to make a close approximation of the normal Mercator projection. They demonstrate the important characteristics of this projection. Full Review »

Grade Range
7th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students work in pairs to construct a simple stereoscope. Full Review »