Geography
Main resources
Videos: Mapping the World with Art playlist
Interactive websites: Osher Map Library - Map play
National Geographic - Daily idea
NASA - Visible Earth
World Tour
Videos: Mapping the World with Art playlist
Interactive websites: Osher Map Library - Map play
National Geographic - Daily idea
NASA - Visible Earth
World Tour
CH 1 MWWA: Mesopotamia
Reading: The very earliest maps
Map drawing: Mesopotamia
Project: Polynesian-style room map
Video: Micronesian stick charts
Interactive website: Mozaik 3D - Polynesian catamaran
Exploratorium - Never lost (Polynesian navigation)
Reading: The very earliest maps
Map drawing: Mesopotamia
Project: Polynesian-style room map
Video: Micronesian stick charts
Interactive website: Mozaik 3D - Polynesian catamaran
Exploratorium - Never lost (Polynesian navigation)
CH 2 MMWA: The Nile River
Reading: Strabo and Eratosthenes
Map drawing: The Nile River
Projects: Practicing with ruler, triangle, protractor, and compass
Quiz game: above or below the equator?
Interactive websites: Ruler and triangle, protractor, compass
Mozaik 3D - Shadows
Article: Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Book: The librarian who measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Reading: Strabo and Eratosthenes
Map drawing: The Nile River
Projects: Practicing with ruler, triangle, protractor, and compass
Quiz game: above or below the equator?
Interactive websites: Ruler and triangle, protractor, compass
Mozaik 3D - Shadows
Article: Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Book: The librarian who measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
CH 3 MMWA: Greece
Reading: Lines on the globe
Map drawing: Greece
Projects: Longitude on an egg; drawing the egg on paper
Turning a beach-ball Earth into a rectangular map
Flashlights on Earth using our giant inflatable globe
'Satellite' map of Greece in acrylic paint
Game: Mercator puzzle
Videos: National Geographic - The cartographer's dilemma, Selecting a map projection
Alternative world maps
What does Earth look like?
Interactive websites: Mozaik 3D - Geographic coordinate system, Major circles of latitude
Oregon State University - Adaptive Composite Map Projections
The True Size Of...
Jason Davies Maps and Map Projection Transitions
Reading: Lines on the globe
Map drawing: Greece
Projects: Longitude on an egg; drawing the egg on paper
Turning a beach-ball Earth into a rectangular map
Flashlights on Earth using our giant inflatable globe
'Satellite' map of Greece in acrylic paint
Game: Mercator puzzle
Videos: National Geographic - The cartographer's dilemma, Selecting a map projection
Alternative world maps
What does Earth look like?
Interactive websites: Mozaik 3D - Geographic coordinate system, Major circles of latitude
Oregon State University - Adaptive Composite Map Projections
The True Size Of...
Jason Davies Maps and Map Projection Transitions
CH 4 MWWA: The Italian peninsula
Reading: Claudius Ptolemy
Map drawing: The Italian peninsula
Projects: Make a star chart
Make and use a navigational quadrant
Interactive website: Planterarium
The interactive sextant
Reading: Claudius Ptolemy
Map drawing: The Italian peninsula
Projects: Make a star chart
Make and use a navigational quadrant
Interactive website: Planterarium
The interactive sextant