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Map Skills for Students, Ages 4-8 - Education
This collection features map activities designed to strengthen spatial thinking skills for students. Spatial thinking allows students to comprehend and analyze phenomena related to the places and spaces around them, and is one of the most important skills students can develop as they learn geography, and various science disciplines.
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Maps and Mapping - Education
Maps are fantastic visual tools that can help us communicate spatial concepts and patterns, tell stories, and analyze data. However, there are some challenges to translating Earth onto a flat surface without adding bias or inaccuracies.
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Interpreting Maps, Ages 8+ - Education
Use this collection to provide learners with a deeper understanding of the nature and importance of maps, which have been illustrating places and people for thousands of years.
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Digital versions of maps can represent Earth in three dimensions, defying the limitations of the flat maps of the past. Almost the entire surface of Earth has been mapped with remarkable accuracy, and this information is available instantly to anyone with an internet connection.
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MapMaker Launch Guide - National Geographic Society
MapMaker is a digital mapping tool, created by the National Geographic Society and Esri, designed for teachers, students, and National Geographic Explorers.
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MapMaker: World Water Demand - Education
It is one of two maps created specifically for teaching and learning by National Geographic Explorer Marc Bierkens and his team at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The two maps tell layered stories about the world’s water and are meant to be used together.
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MapMaker: World Water Map - Education
Stories about the world’s water are illuminated in these interactive MapMaker maps, developed from the work of National Geographic Explorer Marc Bierkens and his team at Utrecht University.
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Gerardus Mercator - Education
His most famous work, the Mercator projection, is a geographical chart where the spherical globe is flattened into a two-dimensional map, with latitude and longitude lines drawn in a straight grid.
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Mapping Landforms - National Geographic Society
Project the Landforms map and invite volunteers to point to the different landforms, name them, and read the descriptions. Show the photo gallery with examples of these landforms around the world.
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Exploring Maps and Models of Earth - Education
Students compare miniature models to real things. Then they explore maps and globes as miniature versions of places and the Earth.