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Maps
A teacher-created video to help teach first grade students some mapping basics. Well done and comprehensive. [4:26]
Backstory Radio
Backstory Radio: Here to There: A History of Mapping
BackStory Radio episode on the history of mapping and perception of place. The History Guys explore maps throughout U.S history revealing a story of a map that gave America its name. Audio is provided; no transcript.
PBS
Pbs: Peg+cat Let's Go Treasure Hunting and More!
Peg, Cat and their friends must learn to use a map in order to find the hidden treasures. Watch as they work together to solve problems along the way. [15:06]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 50 States Part 2
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students combine psychomotor skills and geography as they travel from Montana to Wyoming. As students travel from state to state, they learn regional facts and state capitals. Students perform...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 50 States Part 1
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students travel virtually to 25 different states from Alabama to Missouri. While on their journey students explore geography, learn state capitals and interesting facts along the way. Movements are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: Flag Company Field Trip
Penny and the KidVision VPK kids visit a flag company. They locate the United States on a map, put the pieces of the American flag together, learn how to fold the flag, and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Watch this field trip and get...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: Amazon Field Trip
Visit the "Amazon Voyage" exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Learn about maps, experience the river underwater, see how real stingrays and anacondas camouflage themselves, and celebrate at a fish festival!...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Industry and Islam
Lesson on economic and religious development in Kayseri, Turkey, using video clip [2:22] to illustrate how industrial workers honor their Islamic faith and are bussed to a Mosque for Friday prayer.
Other
Make Me Genius: Youtube: Maps and Cardinal Directions Reading Maps for Kids
Kids can learn about various types of maps and understand all the four directions. [6:24]
Other
Youtube: Reading as the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps
A picture book introducing map reading by Gail Hartman, illustrated by Harvey Stevenson. [5:40]
Other
Globes and Maps Compared
Discusses what maps and globes are, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and key vocabulary. [8:48]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Reading Geological Maps
A video tutorial explaining the use of terrain maps in the study of geology. [2:12]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Map Skills
Using videos and external resources, this tutorial provides practice with geographical skills.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Watch Know Learn: How Big Is My World?
A child narrates a look at relative size of bedroom, house, neighborhood, city, state, country and the world. Excellent slides, maps, background music and script. [2:16]
Other
Understanding and Making Maps Symbols
Explains what symbols are, and how they are used on maps and in a map key. [2:26]
PBS
Pbs: Wyoming's Native Americans: Washakie: Last Chief of the Eastern Shoshone
Learn how the long life of Chief Washakie bridged a century of change in the American west-from the time of nomadic tribes following buffalo herds, to the period when tribes relinquished their claims to vast tracts of land in the West....
PBS
Pbs: Wyoming's Native Americans: Lived History: The Story of the Wind River Virtual Museum
'Lived History' documents the making of the Wind River Virtual Museum, a high definition archive of Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho ancestral artifacts. In the accompanying lesson plan (found in the Support Materials) students will...
PBS
Pbs: Wyoming's Native Americans: Who Are the People of the Wind River Reservation?
Learn about the treaty that established the Wind River Reservation and the two tribes that inhabit it, the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone. Included is a lesson plan and discussion guide. [4:18]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geology: Reading Geological Maps: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces geological maps and explains how to use a key to read the maps. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Geology: Reading Geological Maps."
Other
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]
Other
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]