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Geoscience Australia: Map Reading Guide: How to Use Topographic Maps [Pdf]
A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.
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E Learning for Kids: Math: Bus Station: Position on a Map
Help Jamal read maps, describe directions, and identify coordinates in this series of interactive exercises.
Social Studies for Kids
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A collection of latitude and longitude mapping activities ranging from pin-pointing exact locations on the globe to researching the history behind this basic geography concept.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Take a Trip: A Journey Through Familiar Places
Using the computer mouse, children carefully move a car through a map of a town while trying to avoid going off of the path. They pass different landmarks and are introduced to them one at a time. The activity provides good hand-eye...
Alabama Learning Exchange
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The young scholars will be able to use coordinates to find locations of specific cities on a map of Alabama.
SMART Technologies
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Try to locate famous landmarks using latitude and longitude coordinates in this interactive classroom activity.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Latitude & Longitude
Here is an interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Latitude & Longitude.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Projections
Understanding map projections is an important map-reading skill. Features graphics and links to examples of many different projections and an activity on making a Mercator projection.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically,...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Capacity and Position
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include comparing capacity of three or more containers, using compass directions to describe locations, and using...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Treasure Island
See if you can find what the ordered pairs are for each of the items on the map. This one page website will help you practice plotting points on the grid. You can check the answers right on the website.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
In this lesson, students learn to determine the latitude and longitude of locations within the United States, while making observations about climate and the ways in which these measurements can be useful. Includes maps and discussion...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Echo Explorers
Players explore math concepts and must use echolocation, as well as their skills in mapping and coordinates, to help free the bats trapped in dark caves.