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A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore the history of China from 1200 B.C. to 1931. This is a world map with links on other continents as well, so zoom into China and click on a numbered circle. A popup...

A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore a wide scope of events in the history of the United States from 1492 on. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails and where the...

K-12 lessons using historical maps from Newberry Library presents an Indian map of the Southeast, ca. 1721. Young scholars use maps to understand how spatial relationships are represented. Links to supplemental resources and reference...

Lessons for students K-12 in which they study original map of Yosemite National Park, ca. 1935 and explore appropriate human uses of the environment.

Lessons for students K-12 using historical maps teach students about the history of travel and tourism by car, identifying the technological and economic changes taking place in the 20th Century.

Lessons in which learners K-12 explore an 1874 map of an Illinois farm and supplemental material to gain a sense of the relationship between the geography and American communities.

Students K-12 explore a map of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, to get a sense of how Americans entertained themselve prior to the automobile.

Lesson that teaches middle schoolers how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template...

A few maps and some good text on the topography and its importance during both the American Revolution and the French and Indian War.

A learning module that begins with "Maps" Yesenia Montilla, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...

Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...

Presents the Missouri River Commission's map of the Big Bend from the 1880s.

Lessons for students in K-12 depicting North America prior to the United States and Mexico War, 1845. Students explore the mid-century political and cultural context in which the U.S. experienced growth and expansion.

Lessons K-12 examining the role of transportation systems in the development and settlement of the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.

Rotatable view of the respiratory system lets you examine the lungs, larynx, and trachea in 360 degrees.

Entry about eighteenth-century explorer Samuel Hearne, from a larger exhibition about the search for a passage to the Orient through Canada. Hearne is credited with surveying the Coppermine River and with being the first European to view...

Excerpts from Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage from Montreal that underscore the significance, for British global interests of the time, of his expedition across the North American continent to the Pacific.

With these vibrant and stunning photos, you don't have to be a scuba diver-or even know how to swim-to explore and experience the Great Barrier Reef.

Explore the views of the Amazon River Basin. This resource uses the Street View Trekker, a wearable backpack system that allows you to venture to locations only accessible by foot. Features imagery of the Rio Negro, an Amazon Forest...

Four Googlers decided go on a trip to Everest Base Camp in 2011. They loaded their packs with cameras, tripods, wide-angle lenses, solar chargers, batteries, and laptops, and hopped on a plane to Nepal. They captured a collection of...

This review was formulated to offer recommendations to the United States Agency on International Development concerning global development practices with regard to deforestation activities. It suggests that satellite mapping of tropical...

A sophisticated map tool that shows the capability of soils for agriculture, with or without irrigation, for the whole of the United States. Enter a location and a color coded map is shown, along with a key for interpreting it. The...

This is a history of the construction and significance of a railway through the Crowsnest Pass that connected a part of British Columbia that was cut off from the rest of Canada. Included are maps, photographs and primary source documents.