Maps
Lesson Plans
Grades K-2
- Official "Maps: Tools for Adventure" Unit of Study from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- Explore Your State With Maps
- Getting Lost
- Greeting Friends From Other Places
- Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
- Mapping What Matters
- Over the River and Through the Woods: Traveling by Memory
- Using Maps to See Regions
- Where in the U.S. Would You Want to Live?
Grades 3-5
- Comparing the Continents
- The Geography of Pizza
- How Crowded Are Our States?
- Locator Booth: Mapping South America
- Make State Maps With MapMachine
- Mapping Your State's Culture
- Mental Map of Your Classroom
- Pirate Map
- What We Can Learn From Maps
- Which Direction Should I Go?
Grades 6-8
- Contour Maps With DOGSTAILS
- Famous Boundaries
- Geography and Your Dream Job
- How Can Maps Help?
- How Do We Find Our Way?
- Investigating Central Asia Through Maps
- Latitude, Longitude, and Mapmaking
- Mapping Mars
- School Space: An Analysis of Map Perceptions
- Spatial Organization: Identification of Functional Regions
- Using Maps in Ocean Research
- Where in the World Would You Like to Live?
- Which Way Did They Go?
Grades 9-12
- Defining Regions of the United States
- Genographic: Mapping the Human Journey
- A Look at the Population Density of the United States
- Map Projections
- Map Projections and Careers in Geography
- Maps and Current Events
- Regional Layers: Low-Tech Geographic Information Systems
- Sprawl: The National and Local Situation
- The Technology of Mars Exploration
- What Can We Learn From Satellite Images?
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- Crack the Code
- Creative Climates
- The Power of Fire
- Preserving Biodiversity
- The Riddle of the Russian Lights
- Spice World
- Tell a Migration Story . With Maps
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