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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 better place 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. Locate maps of cities, states, countries, and the world. You can find all types of maps, from physical to topographic to outline to road and street maps online. Use Google Maps to find maps, traffic, photographs, directions, satallite photos, and terrain images. Langenberg.com lists several search engines for finding different types of maps. See several maps at the Lewis and Clark Archives related to the journey of the Corps of Discovery created by William Clark. 
Visit Claudius Ptolemy 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. Read short descriptions of many cartographers. Then, find out how cartographers make maps.
Horizontal
= latidude. Vertical = longitude. The equator is 0 degrees latitude,
the north pole is 90 degrees north, and Make a map of your classroom, your playground, or your school. 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."
Use MapQuest to get online maps and driving directions to virtually everywhere. Find the latitude and longitude of world cities. Which city is further north--Bogata, Columbia or Berlin, Germany? Which city is further south--Cordoba, Argentina or Bristol, England? Discover the many ways to navigate the globe.
Maps and explorers--they go together. Go to Local Times Around the World and find out what time it is in Darwin, Australia; in McMurdo Station, Antarctica; and in Kigali, Rwanda. 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.
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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