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Based on March monthly "Blue Marble" map by NASA Earth Observatory.

Date created: 2010
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Map skills and higher-order thinking: This series of articles looks at map skills as a kind of visual literacy, considering what maps are, how they're made, and the higher-order thinking skills students need to move from simply decoding maps to fully comprehending them. (Page 3)

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