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Grade 7, Geography Std 1.2: Using geographic technology to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

Lesson Plans: Africa's Struggle With AIDS This lesson is designed to help students understand the impact of AIDS in Africa. After using maps to locate Africa on a world map, and individual sub-Saharan nations on a map of Africa students will examine charts and graphs to find and compare data about AIDS in Africa, the world, and the United States. Contour Maps With Dogtails During this lesson your students will craft miniature mountains from lumps of clay. They will then translate their mountains into topographic maps.

Resources: Map Machine At this site you can find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Also you can browse antique maps, and find country facts. Maps This site has more than 1,000 links to electronic map resources and 180 map collections. Perhaps this site is the most extensive grouping of maps on the Web. Geography The Open Directory Project on Geography contains 1,059 websites. Categories include Cartography (89), Dictionaries (4), Education (100), Geographic Information Systems (632), Geomatics (883), Human Geography (63), Navigation (65), Organizations (21), Physical Geography (21), Place Names (56), Publications (13) and Regional Planning (378). SCORE Map Resources The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) project is a terrific resource for teachers and students alike (see description under General Resources). GeoBee Quiz National Geographic has plenty of interactive quizzes, games, expeditions and tours at their site. Geo Bee challenge provides daily geography-based questions. Animated Atlas Animated Atlas portrays history by animating maps. This site features a ten minute, interactive movie which is a geographic history of the United States, locating major events and the admission of every state. Shock-ing Geography At this site, students can quiz themselves on physical, current political and some historical map information. Instructors can have results of student self-quizzes emailed to them. Requires Shockwave software plug-in (available download free) OSSHE Historic Atlas Resource Library Extensive, colorful, and often interactive, the maps in this library cover Europe, Middle East, North Africa and North America.
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