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Students can investigate, locate, select
and use a range of information from an atlas - including topographical
maps, world maps showing population statistics, industrial and
land usage, land degradation, road and transport infrastructure.
Students also gain a global perspective and begin to appreciate
the dynamic relationship between natural and social systems.
A number of sites allow older students to build their own maps
from geophysical data.
www.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
This amazing atlas allows
the viewer to look at history graphically through a series of
detailed, coloured maps. Categories include socio-economic trends,
systems of government by decade and by type, cities (population
and urban growth), wars, religion, specific places and events.
Phase of Development: Early Adolescence - Late Adolescence,
Teacher Resource
www.nationalgeographic.com/maps
This National Geographic
site includes a range of atlas maps, dynamic maps, flags and
facts. Also includes satellite images, the cartographer's dilemma
(translating a round earth onto a flat map) and maps of the
heavens.
Phase of Development: Middle Childhood - Late Adolescence,
Teacher Resource
www.agso.gov.au/map
Geoscience Australia
has gathered a range of interesting, specifically Australian
resources for teacher and student use. These include topographic,
magnetic, gravity and digital elevation maps. Older students
can also develop their own maps from the data provided.
Phase of Development: Middle Childhood - Late Adolescence,
Teacher Resource
www.eduplace.com/ss/maps
The Houghton Mifflin
Education Place provides a range of outline maps for
teachers and students to use in an educational context. Although
there is a North American bias, maps cover all continents of
the world.
Permission is specifically granted for the maps to be printed
and copied for classroom use.
Phase of Development: Middle Childhood - Late Adolescence,
Teacher Resource
www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
Over 100 general world
maps categorised by region are available in pdf format on this
site.
Phase of Development: Early Childhood - Early Adolescence,
Teacher Resource
www.atlas.wa.gov.au
This online resource
provides a wealth of information about Western Australia for
secondary and tertiary students. Users can create their own
maps using this information and in doing so will develop some
of the skills needed to meet the Process Outcomes in Year 11/12
Geography and Practical Geography.
Phase of Development: Late Adolescence, Teacher Resource
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