Reviews the compass rose, mental maps, and the grid map, and provides additional information designed to help viewers master the skills of locating continents, oceans, the equator, and other places on maps and globes.
Describes important map-reading skills such as using a map key and understanding a compass. Demonstrates how to use maps for cross-culture comparisons as well as other map skills in finding a new school, planning changes across a town, and mapping where people live around the world. Also describes how to use a map with measuring and with computers along with acts of nature and weather events.
Demonstrates the process of reading map scales to measure distances. Focuses on the history of trade conducted over the Silk Road spanning an area from eastern China to the Middle East between 60 B.C. and the late A.D. 1400s.
A eight volume reference set that provides a history of map making, describes the different types of maps, their purpose and the techniques used to make them, plus the meaning of some of the symbols and how to use them to read maps.
Shows educators how to create and use bookmapping as a cross-curricular tool to help students develop their understanding of places and cultures and make connections with literature as well as other subjects they are learning in school.
