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Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms Week of 05/16/2005 http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/ Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms is a high bandwidth, interactive web/CD ROM educational program. A project of the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, it features lesson plans built around map documents that support a number of social studies, history and geography standards. "Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms" consists of 18 modules organized into six major themes: discovery and encounter, migration and settlement, environmental history, the historical geography of transportation, political and military history, and the geography of American communities. The modules are accessible though the Map and Lesson Index page. Each module contains four age-specific lesson plans based on one or more primary map documents called a core map. Core maps open in separate windows that allow for enlarging and panning the image to reveal details. A Curator's Notes page prepared by the Newberry Library's map curatorial staff is attached to each module. These notes provide historical background about the map. Each module also includes supplemental texts, documents, and/or images of maps, prints, and photographs that will enrich your students' comprehension of the periods and issues discussed in the various lesson plans. Each module has a Resources page that lists these supplements. Rating: A rich resource

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