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Ordnance Survey: Map Zone: Relief and Contour Lines
Discover how to read and show height on maps using relief and contour lines.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Map App Learning Activities: Rules of Contouring
Using GeoMap software, students learn how to read topographic maps, and the rules for using contour lines on a map. Detailed teacher and student handouts are provided. (GeoMap software can be downloaded at: http://www.geomapapp.org/.)
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Visualizing Topography
This module helps learners learn to identify terrain features on topographic maps. Students manipulate animations of hills, valleys, and cliffs to see the terrain from various angles. The module also provides instruction on how to read...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Surrey and Sussex, 1908
A detailed travel map of southern England from 1908, showing portions of Surry and Sussex (East and West) counties. The map shows first class and secondary roads, railways, cities, towns, rivers, coastal and terrain features of the area....
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Buckingham and Hertford, 1908
A detailed travel map of England in 1908, showing portions of counties Bedford, Buckingham, Hertford, Essex, and Middlesex. The map shows first class and secondary roads, railways, cities, towns, rivers, and terrain features of the area....