Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Geologic Time and Correlation
In this amazing interactive tutorial you will learn about what methods are used by geologists to learn about the history of the Earth. Investigate a geologic time scale and learn about how scientists have developed and organized a record...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Scale Drawings
Get independent practice working with scale drawings. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Possible Locations
Students use their knowledge of scales and areas to determine the best locations in Alabraska for the underground caverns. They cut out rectangular paper pieces to represent caverns to scale with the maps and place the cut-outs on the...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Houston Activity: Texas Rocks
Using a geologic time scale and map students investigate the rocks in their area.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mapping Your World
This activity serves as an introduction to mapping skills and the classroom. Students will create a map of the classroom, analyze and determine qualities that make a clear, concise map, then create a database of qualities they will use...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!
Maps are designed to allow people to travel to a new location without a guide to show the way. They tell us information about areas to which we may or may not have ever been. There are many types of maps available for both recreational...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Drawing Asia, 1872
A chart from 1872 illustrating instructions for drawing Asia. "General instructions for drawing the continents. Make a scale by marking on a slip of paper or pasteboard the measures 1,2,3, etc., as on the sides of this map. Every measure...
Curated OER
History Matters: Making Sense of Maps
Very detailed site from History Matters containing an explanation of how to read maps and understand them. An excellent resource for teachers. The site covers how to begin, how to use a scale, how to create a flat map for a round world,...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard
This activity is specifically designed for a field trip to Drayton Hall, which is a historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. It does provide a model of how a similar activity could be designed for a local area, and there are...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Quaternary Glacio Fluvial History of the Upper Midwest Using Anaglyph Stereo Maps
Students examine the anaglyph stereo map and use textures to generate a surficial geology map of the Upper Midwest. They can then interpret the textures in terms of landforms, geomorphic features, and earth-surface processes, as well as...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Hunting for States, Capitals, and National Parks! [Pdf]
Students can use a map of the United States to locate state capitals and national parks.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Graphic Organizers
Explanations and diagrams of nine graphic organizers: spider map, series-of-events chain, continuum scale, compare/contrast matrix, problem/solution outline, network tree, human interaction outline, fishbone map, and cycle.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Land Surveying Project
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robotic Perimeter
Students learn and practice how to find the perimeter of a polygonal shape. Using a ruler, they measure model rooms made of construction paper walls. They learn about other tools, such as a robot, that can help them take measurements....
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia (Physical), 1901
A map of Asia from 1901 showing the physical features of the region including mountain systems, plateaus, basins, plains, deserts, lakes, rivers, and coastal features and islands. The map shows major ocean currents, the mean annual...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 2: What's a Watershed?
Students build a physical model to simulate watershed features, then use Google Earth software to tie the model to a real place. By exploring several layers of map-based images and data, students learn the complexity of a watershed and...