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| Maps
A map is a drawing of the earth's surface on a flat piece of paper. Maps can how boundaries, physical features, distribution, comparative data, etc. Sample some of the following activities and find maps of the earth, the continents, the countries of the world, the United States, Utah, and your own community. Places To Go | People To See | Things To Do | Teacher Resources | Bibliography
You‚ve got the whole world in your hands and nearly 600 National Geographic maps at your fingertips. There is no betterplace to find maps. Visit the Library of Congress Online. They have the largest map library in the world and have embarked on an ambitious program to scan, and to place on the Internet, many of the important maps in North American history. Travel to any city in the world via Excite. You'll get maps, weather, and travel information. 
Visit Claudius Ptolemy ˆ the most influential person in cartography. You can visit anyone you want by using MapBlast. This site will generate maps for you and provide step-by-step driving instructions for wherever you want to go.
Horizontal = latidude. Vertical = longitude. The equator is 0 degrees latitude, the north pole is 90 degrees north, and the south pole is 90 degrees south. One degree of latitude is about 69 miles. Latitudinal lines are also called parallels because they run parallel to the equator. Lines that run north and south are lines of longitude that are also called meridians.
Find out how a compass works and who first used a compass. Then learn how to use a compass yourself. Check out the Peter's Projection Map. "If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map of the world is worth a thousand pictures. Maps help create our world view. They tell us who we are in relation to the other peoples of the earth. In trying to understand the world we live in, it's important that we use a map whose purpose is to give us a geographically accurate image of the world. The Peters Projection map is that map." Go to the Time Zone Map and find out what time it is at the Tokyo Disneyland, at the Euro Disneyland, at Disneyland in California, and at Disney World in Florida. Use MapQuest to get online maps and driving directions to virtually everywhere.
Discover the many ways to navigate the globe. Play the GeoNet Game and save the planet! A group of aliens traveling through our Solar System, have discovered Earth -- and they want to take over! They claim that humans don't know enough about our own planet to run it well. Prove the aliens wrong by playing this game and becoming a GeoAdvisor, a GeoExpert, or a GeoChampion. To start the game, click on the Northeast, the South, or the United States. Maps and explorers--they go together.
Figure out map projections. Go to the The Census Tract Street Locator and type in a street number, street name, and zip code. You'll receive census-type information--not for that particular household--but for the general neighborhood area. Compare and contrast data for several different sections of any large city. Check out the United States Geological Survey’s Map Wizard for a bunch of different activities related to maps and map-making.
Online activities are a listing of internet sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one. (You can learn how to use this WWW Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators). Lesson Plan/Webquests/Activities
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