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Mapmaking Guide (9-12)

This student reproducible, from Xpeditions, provides information about mapmaking, including map elements, map design and types of maps. Also included are links....

How Can Maps Help?

In this Xpeditions lesson, students are asked to consider the various ways that maps help people in everyday life, and also to consider how students themselves....

Explore Your State with Maps

In this Xpeditions lesson, students create maps of their state using information from National Geographic's MapMachine. They then make their own maps from....

What We Can Learn from Maps

In this Xpeditions lesson, students examine different types of maps. They look at marine maps and maps of their state's agricultural pattern to learn how....

Map of Middle East Region from Xpeditions Atlas

This resource, found in the Xpeditions Atlas, is a printable map of the Middle East Region. The maps available in the atlas allow the user to choose a basic or....

Map of East Timor from Xpeditions Atlas

This resource, found in the Xpeditions Atlas, is a printable map of East Timor. The maps available in the atlas allow the user to choose a basic or detailed....

Learning about Maps and Colors

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students develop basic geography skills by reading neighborhood maps. They discover how to interpret....

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students compare maps of plate tectonics with population density maps and analyze what these maps imply about the relationship....

Make State Maps With MapMachine

In this Xpeditions lesson, students compare and contrast their state with another one using observations they make from National Geographic's MapMachine.....

Map of Benin from Xpeditions Atlas

This resource, found in the Xpeditions Atlas, is a printable map of Benin. The maps available in the atlas allow the user to choose a basic or detailed view,....

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