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Reading Contour Maps

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars examine contour maps and bathymetry maps and discover how to interpret a contour map of the East Pacific Rise. Students look at a map as a class and answer questions together before working independently on a map of the...
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Contour Wrapped Animal Portrait

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students will select a high interest animal portrait. After completing an n accurate light line drawing, the portrait will be finished using contours lines constructed of implied wrapping using pencil and pen. The eyes will be completed...
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Math 312 Spring 98. Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration worksheet, students compute the value of integrals, sketch the contour and list the parameterization used. This two-page worksheet contains three problems.
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Complex Analysis: Understanding Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this integration worksheet, students evaluate contour integrals using the parameterization method. They describe various related theorems. This two-page worksheet contains approximately eight problems.
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Line: a Geometric Exercise

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study the different types of lines and create a drawing demonstrating what they learned.
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Topographic Maps

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this topographic map worksheet, learners learn how to read a topographic map and create a topographic map of their own using clay or Play-Doh. Students include contour lines by layering the clay. Learners answer 6 questions about...
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Cookie Topography

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students construct a cross section diagram showing elevation changes on a "cookie island." Using a chocolate chip cookie for an island, they locate the highest point in centimeters on the cookie and create a scale in feet. After tracing...
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Creating a Topographic Map

For Students 6th - 8th
In this topographic map worksheet, students add contour lines to a topographic map using instructions provided. Once topographic map is finished, students complete 2 follow-up short answer questions.
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Salad Tray 3D Topographic Model

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the characteristics of topographical maps. They examine the relationship of contour lines and vertical elevation. Students create a three-dimensional model of a landscape represented by a topographic contour map.
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Pure Contour Drawing: Learn to Draw

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students explore contour drawing. In this art lesson, students draw their hand. Students draw with the opposite hand that they usually write with. Students cover their paper as they draw so they can not see what they are drawing.
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Math 312 Spring 2004: Applications of Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration learning exercise, students show the residue of a function and compute the value of I. Students show that Ican be written as a contour integral. This two-page learning exercise contains three equations.
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Complex Analysis: Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration worksheet, students sketch the contour and evaluate the integral. This two-page worksheet contains approximately six problems.
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Complex Analysis: Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration worksheet, students identify and explain theorems used with evaluating contour integrals. This two-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Complex Analysis: Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration worksheet, students integrate complex functions of a real variable. They sketch the contour and evaluate the integral. This two-page worksheet contains eight problems, as well as explanations and examples.
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Complex Analysis: Introduction to Contours

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour activity, students compute complex valued functions of a real variable. They give examples of a parametric representation and draw a sketch of the points. This two-page activity contains explanations and examples, as...
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Constructing and Visualizing Topographic Profiles

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Militaries throughout history have used topography information to plan strategies, yet many pupils today don't understand it. Scholars use Legos and a contour gauge to understand how to construct and visualize topographic profiles. This...
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Agricultural Practices in Kansas: Comparing Agricultural Practices Before and After the Dust Storms of the 1930s

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Knowing about history is one thing, learning form it is another. Rather than just discuss the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl, this presentation discusses what we learned from the Dust Bowl. Presented are the types of agricultural...
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Expressive Contour Hands Drawing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students discuss lines and elements of design. They view examples of artwork, and contour drawings. Students create their own contour drawings. They discuss balance and do an activity that involves balance. Students discuss other...
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Orienteering

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Everything you wanted to know about orienteering, and more! Take your class on an adventure with this creative activity. You will need to gather some supplies and materials and maps for your specific location, but the unit sounds like it...
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A Digital Reimagining of Gettysburg

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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...
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Computer Enhanced Contour Line Drawing

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students practice drawing contour lines using a computer program. Using the lines, they use them in a photo scanned onto the same computer with a photo-editing option. They change the colors and textures of the photo and turn it in to...
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Volcano Contour Models Activity and Tracing the Highs and Lows in San Francisco

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate how to draw topographic contours and read topographic maps.They examine the topography of San Francisco and contrast the elevation of different points within San Francisco.
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Under the Sea

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Tropical fish are a great subject for any art project, they are colorful, interesting, and can go along with under water themed stories read in class, learner written narratives, or Marine Biology units. This set of instructions will...
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Changing Planet: Sea Levels Rising

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Begin by showing a six-minute video, Changing Planet: Rising Sea Level as an anticipatory set. Pupils draw a topographic map of a potato continent. Finally, they will visit NOAA's sea levels online map and NASA's carbon dioxide...

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