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- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students connect the theme of location to movement, place, region, and/or human environmental interaction depending on the statistics used. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students discover that a map is a drawing that shows what a place looks like from above. They use a map key and symbols to create a map of the school and its neighborhood. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students receive a general overview about how maps are made and used, how specific information can be derived from them, and how a student can gain personal information about their surroundings from examining them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore how to read and make their own maps. They also have time to complete worksheets and write in their journals. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students follow directions to draw a map of an island. They complete the island map adding their own details using symbols and a legend. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine biological information about George Washington focusing on his love of surveying. They explore cartography and field of surveying. They write a letter and make a map of Virginia. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine one important aspect of cartography as they use as few colors as possible to color a map. The lesson stresses that no regions sharing a common border are colored the same color. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students map an actual local waterway. They create full color scale drawings that include windfalls, plant cover, streambed composition, and landmarks such as trees, boulders, and slumps. This is a long-term project that involves numerous trips to the waterway. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students create mental maps of their community. They read articles and add information to their maps. They compare their community map to their mental maps to observe similarities and differences. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students explore basic concepts of geo-spatial thinking. They create a two-dimensional map highlighting at least four pieces of data. Students discuss the relationship between hand-cartography and 21st century cartography specifically comparing data collection, data manipulation and data presentation. Full Review »
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