Canada: Thematic Maps

Students investigate how maps can provide useful information about health issues. They study a map to draw conclusions about cholera death in London.

Students plan a trip around the world and create a PowerPoint presentation of the journey. For this map, atlas, and technology lesson, students plan a trip around the world in which they avoid using an airplane. Students will consider...

Here you'll find a nice guided notes instructional activity on Otto von Bismarck, which details Bismarck's plan to unify Germany, as well as asks learners to analyze his motivations and overall impact.

Students examine the tools of demographic analysis and apply them to real-world situations. They analyze maps, define terminology, and write an information paper for the appropriate government agency to recommend an action or policy change.

Inspire your class to look at their environments as if they were seeing them for the first time in order to gain a better understanding of the concept of perspective. After exploring their communities and keeping a journal of major...

Students define choropleth map. They construct a choropleth map. They interpret a choropleth map. They present geographic information.

Why would Robert E. Lee order Pickett's Charge, an action that changed the course of the Civil War? Geographer and historian Anne Knowles uses digital technology to explain what she thinks is the missing piece in trying to understand...

Collection of maps (political, geographic, thematic, topographic, etc.) related to Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Become a geography whiz as you learn how the United States was settled. Discover how the continent was irrevocably changed by European colonization, the events that caused the wholesale displacement and decimation of the land's original...

Resource provides an interactive map that takes you to places on the Chesapeake Bay that John Smith explored and you find out the historical events that occurred. Pictures and drawings of time accompany the explanations.