Identify the map and globe symbols.

Activities will enhance students' understanding of how to read the map scale and apply it to measuring distances between locations.

A comprehensive learning module on maps that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about map symbols, cardinal directions, and...

This resource has a topographic map that tells you where things are and how to get to them. Use this site to help you use a map and compass to determine your location.

Find out how to join a group for the citizen science project, Yardmap by Habitat Network.

When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35]...

A collection of highly engaging learning modules on various topics within mapping skills. Covers map symbols, how to use four- and six-figure grid references, cardinal directions, distance, contour mapping, and drawing cross-sections....

Students will learn about symbols that are used to represent weather and then use the day's weather to create a weather map for their state. Includes handouts and website links, as well as links to downloadable coloring books full of...

Consider the perspectives of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and why they made decisions that they did with respect to the American wilderness. The issue is whether the Hetch Hetchy dam should be built to supply water to San...

This lesson focuses on map coloring and the problem of proving that 4 colors would work for all maps. Francis Guthrie had to color a map of counties in England. He observed that four colors seemed to suffice for any map he tried, but he...

Learn about different landforms and water bodies and the various characteristics that make them distinct from one another in this lesson plan from WGBH. Navigate around a virtual island to unlock information -- including videos and...

This article describes how the patches on a map drawn by John White, Governor of the lost Roanoke Colony, came to inspire someone's curiosity and were discovered to hide a location that the colony may have relocated to. This map is known...

A rich and historically significant collection of maps of various national parks throughout the United States. Features special sections on Yellowstone, Acadia, the Grand Canyon and the Smoky Mountains. Includes historical photographs of...

Students will study landform maps of states and then create a project of their own.

Conservation biologists know which places are important to protect. How nature guides know which animals can be found in which places, are made possible partly by conservation biology. This experiment allows you to discover how maps can...

Explore Dutch New York through this historical interactive map and learn what wildlife, landscape, and people lived there in 1609 compared with today. Click on 'Interactives' for additional resources, e.g., a 1626 letter from Peter...

After reading an article about how the spread of HIV/AIDS was first tracked, students act as epidemiologists to map its spread round the world. The instructional activity materials and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded.

View a global map from NASA's Earth Observatory that shows net radiation from July 2006 to November 2008. Learn about radiation and the balance between incoming and outgoing energy in the atmosphere.

Features data collection for natural disasters and maps the trends giving us an idea of where disasters have a tendency to strike.

In this lesson, students use a world map to locate and label major rivers and their watersheds. They then compare watershed shapes and look at typographical features that determine their shapes. A vocabulary list with definitions is...

View a global map showing cloud fraction from January 2005 to November 2008. Learn how clouds have a warming and cooling influence depending on altitude.

From the comfort of your computer, tablet, or phone, take a 360-degree journey around the Taj Mahal as if you were walking around the building itself. Enjoy postcard views or discover rarely-seen perspectives; get up close to the...

An unfortunate spill of 92,000 rubber ducks into the ocean in 1992 elicited invaluable information about global ocean currents as scientists tracked their journeys around the world. In this lesson, students first learn about the Ocean...

Students will review the Amistad case and use passages from the case explore the concept of jurisdiction and how a case travels through the federal court system. Also, included are links to the background of the Amistad case, a...