Newberry: Geography of Transportation: Map 12: Auto Trails of Florida, Ca. 1924

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.

Newberry Library presents historical map on the Age of Exploration with lesson plans for all ages k-12. Includes curator notes and a wealth of supplemental resource material.

Lessons for K-12 in which students use a 1979 Rand McNally highway map to explore the cultural, historical and physical geography of metropolitan Los Angeles.

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

Lesson plan on migration and settlement in the U.S. ca. 1843, uses primary source map of the Missouri-Oregon survey done by Fremont and supplemental resources.

Lessons in which students 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.

Map and primary source information provide first-hand account of exploration and encounters between Europeans and Hawaiians. Includes lesson plans for k-12, links to reference material and supplemental resources, and curators notes.

Engage in an 8-day study of different modes of transportation. Your students explore the concept of location and define the physical characteristics of places, such as, land forms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather.

Lesson for K-12 using historical maps examine the geographic, political, and economic factors that influenced the growth of railroads.

Lesson for K-12 using historical map teaches students about the relationship between perspectives of the world and map projections.