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\nTeachEngineering: Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)\n

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\nA multidisciplinary unit has young engineers explore Geographic Information Systems (GIS), an essential tool in planning any engineering projects. The lessons and activities in Part 1 of the unit look at GIS in general. Part 2 focuses on...\n
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\nFrom Colonists to Revolutionaries\n

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\nWhat was America like before it became the United States? Set the stage for the American Revolution with a collection of resources focused on Colonial America, including the cultural, political, and religious conflicts of the time.\n
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\nBecoming Us: Borderlands\n

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\nThree case studies make up a unit the looks at the power contentions and exchanges in the borderlands that have shaped the United States. The first case study focuses on creating the US southern border and the experiences of people...\n
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\nBecoming Us\n

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\nThe mission statement of the National Museum of American History’s Becoming US: Teaching Immigration and Migration History in the 21st Century series is to provide “educational resources for high school teachers and students to learn...\n
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\nLearning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration\n

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\nThe 10 inquiry-based lessons in this collection, developed for NOAA Voyages of Discovery and the Ocean Explorer WebSite, give young oceanographers experience using scientific data and modeling scientific work and thinking. Beginning with...\n
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\nTopographic Maps\n

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\nSometimes it is difficult to grasp topographic maps. Here is a clever presentation designed to help your middle school earth scientists understand. Beginning with a side view of a pair of mountains, a graphic guy walks up one slope. As...\n
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\nOrienteering - Lesson 2 - Topographical Maps\n

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\nOne of the most important skills in orienteering is being able to read a topographical map. Understanding the contour lines and symbols and the scale of the map will make planning your route so much better. In this lesson, partners get...\n
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\nWhat do Maps Show: How to Read a Topographic Map\n

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\nStudents identify the characteristics of topographical maps. Using examples, they practice reading them and describing the information they gather from them. They also discover how to use the website from the U.S. Geological Survey.\n
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\nWhat Do Maps Show?: Lesson 4 How to Read a Topographic Map\n

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\nLearners examine the use of topographic maps as two dimensional representations that show elevations and slopes with contour lines. They read maps of the Salt Lake City, Utah area and complete the associated worksheets that show map...\n
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\nTopographic Maps\n

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\nYour choice of hands-on topographic mapping tasks is provided in this resource. From actual map-making to viewing and interpreting stereographic photos, the activities are sure to succeed. To make the most of this lesson plan, you will...\n
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\nStudent Exploration: Building Topographic Maps\n

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\nIn this earthquake exploration worksheet, students complete 2 prior knowledge questions, then use \"Building Topographic Maps Gizmo\" to conduct several activities, completing short answer questions when finished.\n
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\nOrienteering - Lesson 3 - Topographical Maps and Contour Lines\n

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\nLearn how to read a topographical map and understand what the contour lines mean. Explore longitude and latitude. Find a cliff, a valley, a mountain peak, and more. This is just one of the ten lessons in this unit on oreinteering....\n
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\nIntroducing Topographic Maps: Guiding Students from Concrete Models to Graphic Representations\n

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\nStudents interpret topographic maps and infer human activity as it is influenced by the landscape.\n
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\nLayers with Lines\n

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\nStudents examine topographical maps and the challenges faced by cartographers when drawing the maps. While creating collages, they use contour lines to add dimension much in the same way they are used on maps to show elevation.\n
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\nDenali Park Topographic Maps\n

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\nStudents construct a topographic map of the Denali National Park. They identify different elevations and record historic landmarks in student science journals.\n
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\nIdentifying Watersheds with Topographic Maps\n

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\nStudents model a watershed and delineate one using topographic maps. In this hydrology lesson, students use aluminum foil to model a landscape and observe how water moves on it. They also observe the features of a topographic map and use...\n
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\nTopographic Maps\n

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\nIn this topographic map worksheet, students learn how to read a topographic map and create a topographic map of their own using clay or Play-Doh. Students include contour lines by layering the clay. Students answer 6 questions about...\n
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\nCreating a Topographic Map\n

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\nFor this topographic map worksheet, learners add contour lines to a topographic map using instructions provided. Once topographic map is finished, students complete 2 follow-up short answer questions.\n
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\nFire Behavior in Forests\n

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\nUnderstanding the ways a fire will act is a key factor in fire safety and fire prevention. Young campers focus on how the weather and terrain can affect the behavior of a fire with topographic maps and different...\n
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\nConstructive and Destructive Geologic Processes\n

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\nShow the class the world as they've never seen it before—from way above! Learners try to unravel the mysteries presented by rich satellite imagery, learn to interpret topographic maps, and study erosion by constructing their very...\n
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\nIntroduction To Topographic Map Activities\n

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\nStudents discuss different types of maps, their similarities and differences. Using a Topographical Maps CD-rom program students create their own map.\n
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\nUnderstanding Topographic Maps\n

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\nStudents are introduced to the characteristics and uses of topographical maps. Using a worksheet, they examine the use of specific terminology and use cutouts to create their own topographical map of an area. They answer discussion...\n
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\nTopographic Mapping\n

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\nStudents create a three dimensional model of a two dimensional topographic map. They explore how the two dimensional significance of a topographical map is helpful to create a three dimensional model. Students use other topograhical...\n
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\nOrienteering - Lesson 4 - Distance and Height\n

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\nPretend that you've been dropped onto a mountain, in the middle of nowhere,  and all you have to find your way is a topographical map and a compass. Could you find your way to the nearest town? Orienteering teaches the skills of map...\n
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