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Navigating with Maps: How to Find Your Way
This video explains how to use maps for navigation, covering key concepts like reading symbols, understanding cardinal directions, and using a compass to orient yourself. Learn how maps represent the real world and help you find your...
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Maps
A teacher-created video to help teach first grade students some mapping basics. Well done and comprehensive. [4:26]
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Understanding and Making Maps Symbols
Explains what symbols are, and how they are used on maps and in a map key. [2:26]
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What Is a Map?
A cartography media project. Explains what the parts of a map are, some types, and some ways we use maps today. [2:54]
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Maps an Intro for Kids
An introduction, for young children, to maps and what is on them. Introduces such general concepts as continents, countries, cities, lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. [4:32]
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There's a Map on My Lap!: All About Maps
Reading from the book "There's a Map on My Lap!: All about Maps" by Tish Rabe (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library). The book introduces beginning readers to types of maps and their parts. [8:02]
