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- Resources of South America
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will research the resources of a South American country and will create a map illustrating those resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway and Joann Via.
- A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills, 1651
- John Farrer's 1651 map of Virginia shows the Pacific Ocean just beyond the Appalachian mountains. (Note that west is at the top of this map.) Farrer's conception of the continent may have been influenced by the idea that a "Sea of Verrazano" split North America...
- Format: image/map
- CareerStart lessons: Grade six
- This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Two worlds: Educator's guide
- Lesson plans and activities to be used with "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony" -- the first part of a North Carolina history textbook for secondary students.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- "Where Am I?" Reading guide and activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.3
- This lesson for grade 8 will help students to understand the article "Where Am I? Mapping a New World" through the use of a graphic organizer and a reading guide.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
Resources on the web
- Ancient World Mapping Center
- Free, downloable maps of the ancient world including ancient sites in and around the Aegean Sea, ancient Greece, ancient Italy, ancient Egypt, and Constantinople, as well as maps depicting the campaigns of such historical figures as Augustus, Caesar, Pompey,... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
- A collection of maps with lessons appropriate for each grade from K-12 for each map. This site also provides Teacher Resources to guide the use of the site and aide in the planning of geography lesson. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library
- Maps in Our Lives
- This rich site features a historical exhibit that celebrates the partnership between the Library of Congress and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping through surveys, cartography, geodesy, and geographic information systems (GIS). These maps illustrate... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Library of Congress
- Pathfinders and Passageways: the Exploration of Canada
- The history of explorers of Canada as told by the explores and those who traveled with them. Illustrated with images of actual artifacts from the expeditions. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: National Library of Canada
- Mathematics Lessons that are Fun, Fun, Fun!
- This mathematics site sponsored by Rice University offers the kindergarten through adult user interactive, creative mathematics problems. The interface looks elementary, but the content covers all grade levels. (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: Cynthia Lanius
- David Rumsey Collection
- State of the art technology brings over 10,000 rare and unique maps online to this website featuring North and South Americas as well as other parts of the world. Includes atlases, globes, and more. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Cartography Associates
- Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
- Provides digitized maps, lesson plans, learning activities, and biographical information that follow the adventures of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Corps of Discovery. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Edgate and the Smithsonian Institution
