Hoe, Susan

Explains what maps are and why they are important, looks at how maps can be used to provide information about different habitats, and includes an activity.

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.

Discusses how maps represent different places in the world.

Looks at the life of Rosa Parks, discussing her childhood in the South, her encounters with prejudice and discrimination, the lessons she learned about dignity and self-respect, and her involvement in the civil rights movement which led to her refusal in 1955 to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man.

Explains what maps are and why they are important, looks at how maps can be used to provide information about different habitats, and includes an activity.

Presents maps of resources in a store, a mall, a country, and the world. Examples include a candy store map, a world trade map, and a map of good from China.