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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Map It!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students explore map making. Students' read a story, identify the locations of different places in the story, decide the distance between each set of places in the story, and create a map with a legend.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Final Project Map Skills

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.
Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Map Adventures Lesson 4 Symbols and Legends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan offers detailed instructions on the types and uses of map symbols.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Map Key

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the purpose of a map, map symbols, and the map key or legend. Activote questions reinforce the concepts.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Map Skills Germany

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson map skills are reinforced by identifying physical features in Germany. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and land elevation are discussed. Political maps identify population and cities.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Trouble With Topos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how to identify the major features in a topographical map. They learn that maps come in a variety of forms: city maps, road maps, nautical maps, topographical maps, and many others. Map features reflect the intended use....
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Barlow's Map, 1785

For Students 9th - 10th
An English facsimile of a map issued by Joel Barlow in Paris (1787) of the area north of the Ohio River, showing the essential parts of a map with his proposals to induce immigration, but the legends are turned into English from the...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: New York City, 1746

For Students 9th - 10th
Landmarks of New York City in 1746. The legend is as follows: (A) The Fort; (B) The Chapel; (C) Secretary's office; (D) The Great Dock; (E) Port of Nutten Island; (F) Port of Long Island; (G) Dutch Church; (H) English Church; (I) The...
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Other

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is devoted to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table including the historic Arthur vs the legendary Arthur, the Knights, Arthurian characters, a map of Arthur's land, Arthurian landmarks, and a photo gallary.
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Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)

Royal British Columbia Museum: Thunderbird Park

For Students 3rd - 8th
This online exhibit explores the transformation of British Columbia's Thunderbird Park, a park established to display totem poles and other carvings by the First Nations' people. Interactive "maps" documenting the park's history from...
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A&E Television

History.com: How Far Did Ancient Rome Spread?

For Students 9th - 10th
Legend has it that Romulus and Remus -- twin brothers who were also demi-gods -- founded Rome on the River Tiber in 753 B.C. Over the next eight and a half centuries, it grew from a small town of pig farmers into a vast empire that...

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