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Thematic Map Lesson Plans
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Learners are able to list the essential elements of a thematic map, understand and use scale effectively to represent a geographic area, use research skills to develop a body of information, plan and draw an accurate thematic map based on her or his research, and make a set of predictions about what kind of problems or issues their map might be used to answer.
Students recognize thematic maps and can use information to create a map. For this thematic maps lesson, students view a video on the Denali region in Alaska. Students mark the map for areas of more gold, and points of interest to visit.
Students compare thematic maps of the world as a whole to determine where they would like to live They view several online thematic maps and conclude by writing about three places in the world they think they would most like to live.
Young scholars define tools, buttons, menu, view, table and layout of maps. They also identify and become familiar with the document windows and layout of ArcView using buttons, tools and menu items as directed to create a map. Finally, students edit the legend to create a thematic map on their own.
Students examine and analyze the concept of why multinational corporations relocate production facilities from developed nations to less developed nations. They explore the patterns and networks of economic interdependence incorporating thematic maps. Their focus is on production facilities from the US to Malaysia.
Students improve their mapping skills and knowledge about population distribution and change in Vermont at the county level. They are divided into groups of two or four. Each group is given two county base maps and the population change chart. Students are to produce two thematic maps of Vermont, one showing the distribution of the 2000 population by county, and the other showing the population increase between 1990 and 2000.
Students examine thematic maps to assess the relationships between physical geography and population density. In relation to population distribution, they examine land use, natural vegetation, precipitation, sea level. Students write paragraphs with each relationship.
Students use a atlas to identify and describe Canada's Landform region. Using the information they collect, they create a thematic map of the region and describe all of the physiographic regions and the processes that formed them. They share the information they collected with the class.
Students discover thematic maps. In this thematic mapping lesson, students examine thematic maps and answer questions on the precipitation zones. Students participate in a "think aloud" and a think-pair-share activity.
Students use different types of maps to examine the region of Asia. They examine how the region of Central Asia is defined. They develop their own scavenger hunt based on maps to complete the lesson.
