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Making the Invisible Visible

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Students evaluate the various ways in which cyberspace is beginning to be mapped by geographers, cartographers, artists, and scientists and use their understanding of the information these new maps can convey to create their own maps of non-linear worlds.

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6th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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1 hr
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