Author: Michael Anthony DiSpezio
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402705991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Learning geography will always be fun with the special tricks you'll learn here. Starting from familiar territory (home, backyard, schoolyard) and moving outwards, this amusing, delightfully illustrated introduction to maps and more teaches street smarts to kids. Filled to the brim with fun games, cool activities, humorous quizzes, and wacky facts, every page turns basic geography into an adventure. Build a model of an early compass to understand navigation--then head out to test your skills. Use the sun, moon, and the stars to get your bearings. Look at a map similar to the one Columbus might have used when he set out to prove the world was round. Hit the road with "a key to the highway" that provides information on tolls, the number of lanes, and other details. Figure out which route goes where. All in all, you'll have a delightful trip--and end up just where you want to be!
Author: Kelly Boswell
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1476533393
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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"Introduces types of maps and how they are used"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Kay Jackson
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1429628820
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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"Describes different types of maps and how they can be used to find your way"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900446736X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographical regions and periods. Connected by their focus on the (hand)colouring of the examined maps, the authors demonstrate the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical and political context in which they were made. Contributors are: Diana Lange, Benjamin van der Linde, Jörn Seemann, Tomasz Panecki, Chet Van Duzer, Marian Coman, Anne Christine Lien, Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadja Danilenko, Sang-hoon Jang, Anna Boroffka, Stephanie Zehnle, Haida Liang, Sotiria Kogou, Luke Butler, Elke Papelitzky, Richard Pegg, Lucia Pereira Pardo, Neil Johnston, Rose Mitchell, and Annaleigh Margey.
Author: Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.
Author: S. Kay Gandy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475856792
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Children need the chance to explore and understand where they live and all the places surrounding them to make sense of their world. Through geography, children can feel a connection with people they have never met and places they have never been. Through these connections, children can be inspired to care about their place and their communities. This book includes chapters explaining the concepts of location, perspective, scale, orientation, map symbols and map keys, and the five themes of geography. In addition, chapters are included on various types of maps and the use of technology to teach map skills. There are suggestions for 100 activities to teach the concepts, assessment questions, and annotated children’s literature that relate to the concepts. The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.
Author: Doreen Gonzales
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515742199
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Left. Right. East. West. Which way should you go? With a map, a compass, and the skills to use them, you'll never get lost again!
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Doreen Gonzales
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781429600552
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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"Describes the cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west, and how directions are used with a map and compass"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Margaret Hall
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410926005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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How are maps made? Read this book to learn the history of cartography, and types and uses of maps.
