How Crowded Are Our States? This lesson has students combine information from statistics and maps to find out about world and national population characteristics. http: //nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lesso...
ELECTRONIC MAPPING An interdisciplinary activity which not only helps studentslocate places on a map but introduces students to the concepts of scale,electricity and group interaction http: //ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/...
Regional Layers: Low–Tech Geographic Information Systems This activity is designed to have students explore the physical characteristics of a hypothetical region through the use of a low-tech version of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) map-overlay analysis... http: //nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lesso...
Contour Maps With DOGSTAILS During this lesson your students will craft miniature mountains from lumps of clay. They will then translate their mountains into topographic maps... http: //nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lesso...
Map Projections This lesson emphasizes map projections and has students consider the different types of map projections and the most appropriate projections for various uses... http: //nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lesso...
Living Through a Drought this lesson, students will practice map-reading skills. Using a drought map of Afghanistan.. http: //nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lesso...
