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...
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...
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/...
Using Maps to See Regions Students will travel around the world on a visual scavenger hunt. They will select a handful of important natural and cultural characteristics of places. They will then search through magazines such as NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.. 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...
