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SMART Technologies

Smart: Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Try to locate famous landmarks using latitude and longitude coordinates in this interactive classroom activity.
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Boat Safe Kids: Longitude and Latitude

For Students 9th - 10th
This website starts at the very beginning and explains how round globes are transferred to flat maps. Then they explain the use of longitude and latitude.
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Projections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of a map. There are also many links about related map topics, included on this MathWorld site.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecular Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced explanation of the valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory describes specific molecular models involving digonal, trigonal, tetrahedral, and octahedral coordination, as well as central atoms with five bonds....
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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,...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Particle Worldline Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation exploring the behavior of particles as they approach a black hole using Schwarzschild coordinates.
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NOAA

Noaa: Follow That Hurricane [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Utilize data from historical hurricanes and a map of areas around the Atlantic Ocean to plot the paths of these potentially devastating storms.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Capacity and Position

For Students 4th - 5th
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...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: Position

For Students 2nd - 4th
Students will play an interactive game to explore maps, routes, and locations of objects.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position and Directions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Meet Calypso the fish and go to the underwater world to learn more about position on maps.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Volume of Pyramids: Midpoint Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of midpoints and segment bisectors by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: American Population, 1790

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the original thirteen States in 1790 showing the distribution of the European-American population at the time and the general tribal lands of the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. The map shows the State lines,...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Take a Trip: A Journey Through Familiar Places

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Treasure Island

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Latitude & Longitude

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here is an interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Latitude & Longitude.
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Geographic

Mexico Geography Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Clim

For Students 9th - 10th
Short country profile with location, geographic coordinates, comparison of size with US states, etc.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nidy Gridy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Normally we find things using landmark navigation. When you move to a new place, it may take you awhile to explore the new streets and buildings, but eventually you recognize enough landmarks and remember where they are in relation to...
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Fourmilab Switzerland

Earth and Moon Viewer

For Students 9th - 10th
View a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or from the sun, the noon, the night side, and other points of view in this simulation. Illustrated.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Unit Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students explore the properties of a unit circle and its mapping functions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Jason: Mystery of the Agouti and the Ocelot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Use a set of XY coordinates to map the locations of an agouti and an ocelot at one-hour intervals. After determining the locations of the animals, use the information to solve the mystery behind the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Equations of My Road

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to the use of a map of an area, a neighborhood, a favorite city, or an amusement park, to determine the slope of a specific road. Students will find the slope of a line using a coordinate plane.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Determine Rotations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a figure on the coordinate plane and a center of a rotation, find the angle for the rotation that maps one figure to the other. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...

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