Teaching With USGS Topographic Maps: 25 Ideas Teaching With Topographic maps 25 Ideas for Educational Lessons Obtain historical prints of topographic map from USGS, and compare to latest printed http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/outreach/topoteach.html
Extractions: The USGS publishes approximately 57,000 different topographic maps covering the USA. Topographic maps include contour lines indicating landforms and elevations, hydrography (rivers, lakes, marshes, transportation (roads, trails, railroads, airports), vegetation, boundaries, survey markers, urban areas, buildings, and a variety of other features. These maps are drawn according to the National Map Accuracy Standard and are most commonly published at 1:24,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000, and 1:500,000-scale, although many other scales exist as well. Topographic maps represent a fantastic resource for educators. They can be used in a variety of ways in the science, math, geography, and history curriculum, from elementary to college level. The following ideas have been compiled by Joseph Kerski to be used as an aid in building educational lessons.
Extractions: Home Find Web Sites by Subject History Resources > Teaching Maps for History The Cheng Library maintains a collection of over 115 large historical maps that can be used for classroom teaching. The maps are located in a file cabinet in the Reference collection area on the first floor of the Library next to the microfiche and microfilm cabinets. All of the maps are catalogued and can be searched in the Library Catalog (try entering a few subject keywords and the word "maps" in your search). A printed directory of the collection in call number order - identical to the electronic version below - is kept on the cabinet. The maps can be borrowed for one week with your Library card. Description: 1 map : col. ; 100 x 111 cm. Scale: 600 miles to the inch.
Chinese Culture: Images maps; Archaeology; Art; Divinities; People; historical Sites DESCRIPTION Buddha with his hands in the vitarka teaching mudra. http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images.html
Historical Maps These helpful maps help you learn more about the United States, its boundaries, Find out more about the history of Africa through the use of maps. http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/mapshistorical2.htm
Historical Maps historical maps. These maps give you sense of how things were way back then. Find maps of ancient times, the Middle Ages, even the old 20th Century! http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/mapshistorical.htm
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Best Of History Web Sites: Maps Go to Teaching with Technology The David Rumsey historical Map Collection has over 8800 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and http://www.besthistorysites.net/Maps.shtml
Extractions: Oddens' bookmarks was started in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, the curator of the map Library of the Faculty of GeoSciences and is today perhaps the most extensive online map collection in the world. (The number of links in the database has grown from 6500 in 1999 to over 22000 in April 2004.) You can find almost any map you are searching for via this enormous site. The site is searchable by country, region, and category. Key sections include Maps and Atlases, Map Collections, Government Cartography, and Touristic Sites. Map History / History of Cartography Map History, managed by the former Map Librarian of the British Library, is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and forms part of the WWW-Virtual Library. Spread over about 100 pages, it provides a well organized global overview of the history of cartography as well as over 1500 links. The site provides reference information, web articles, and lists activities, opportunities and resources for surfers and scholars. There are also leads to the collecting of early maps. Furthermore, there is a section aimed specifically at parents and teachers.
Best Of History Web Sites: Lesson Plans & Activities The Center for Teaching History with Technology provides a multitude of free online and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. http://www.besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml
Extractions: Print this page Note: Best of History Web Sites features categorized and annotated lists of links to hundreds K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages. Just scroll down most BOHWS pages and you will find an abundance of quality teaching resources. Tip: Press ctrl and F (or apple and F on a Mac) to perform a keyword search of this page. To keyword search all Best of History Web Sites pages use the search engine located on the home page. This page was updated July 6, 2005. The Center for Teaching History with Technology provides a multitude of free online resources articles, tips, strategies, and lesson plans to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Visit the center and discover, among other things, the best history activities and games and great examples of inquiry-based World History and United States History lesson plans. Subscribe to the free Teaching History with Technology Newsletter and receive resources, lesson plans, and tech tips every month. The Center for Teaching History with Technology is led by Tom Daccord, veteran high school history teacher, academic technology specialist, and webmaster of Best of History Web Sites.
Teaching History Online: 87 Teaching History Online. Number 87 25th May, 2003 Introduction historical Atlas of Europe The maps on this site give you an overview of the political http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history87.htm
Extractions: Spartacus Educational publishes Teaching History Online every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews of websites and articles on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing list are invited to submit information for inclusion in future editions of Teaching History Online . In this way we hope to create a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history. Currently there are 27,830 subscribers to the newsletter. spartacus@pavilion.co.uk Encouraging History Teachers To Use ICT : A survey carried out in 1999 discovered that the main reason teachers used computers in their teaching was because they felt they ought to. History, the same as every national curriculum subject, has clear requirements to use ICT. It seems that history teachers thus feel a burden to make use of ICT. In this seminar Andrew Field suggests how history teachers can be encouraged to make use of ICT in their lessons. The fundamental approach is not backed up by the notion"because they have to", but rather the infinitely preferable "because of the benefits".
Teaching History Online: 93 Teaching History Online. Number 93 6th July, 2003 Introduction Ancestry historical maps This website provides several hundred historical maps from all http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history93.htm
Extractions: Spartacus Educational publishes Teaching History Online every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews of websites and articles on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing list are invited to submit information for inclusion in future editions of Teaching History Online . In this way we hope to create a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history. Currently there are 28,300 subscribers to the newsletter. spartacus@pavilion.co.uk Effective Extra-Curricular History Activities : This seminar looks at the manner in which History activities can be effectively delivered in an extra-curricular capacity. If offers some information about different types of activities that could be offered to students and how students view activities that are created for them. If you have views on this subject, register with the History Forum and join the debate.
Volume #, Number # The site uses original historic maps to teach the geographic dimensions of American History. When it is publicly launched in 2003, it will include images of http://www.csun.edu/~hfgeg003/csg/fall02.html
Extractions: Outside the AAG, cartographers have seen reasons for being positive about the future. URISA's GIS certification program and NASA's GIS workforces review have many positives for cartography. For both organizations, cartography is a critical factor. Does cartography dominate here? No! But it is important to understand that cartography has been recognized as having an important role in the future development for GIS professions. The role of cartography in the AAG and GIS profession is significant, but I think cartography needs to gather its primary strength from within. One of the internal strengths for cartography is the fact that more maps are being made today than in any other time in history. The World Wide Web brought about this incredible growth in map production. Companies like MapQuest, Vicinity and I-MAPS are creating maps for companies and individuals at astonishing rates. Map production numbers gives cartography one reason for optimism. New areas for cartographic research are another reason to be positive. One of the biggest challenges for academia, and cartography as a whole, is implementing all the new tools for cartography. Technologies such as SVG, GML, XML, PHP, WAP, WIFI and Bluetooth are adding a whole new set of possibilities for cartographers to improve the communication and visualization of Geospatial data. As cartographers look forward to the future, mapping applications such as location based services through wireless networking and distributed virtual reality visualization hold a great promise for research and discovery.
Maps it has never been easier to incorporate the use of maps into history teaching. historical Atlas of the 20th Century plus links to historical maps on http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/historypgce/maps.htm
Extractions: Lez Smart's chapter in History, ICT and Learning makes the point that because of the internet and an increase in the ease with which maps can be accessed and manipulated, it has never been easier to incorporate the use of maps into history teaching. He points out that HMI note that in spite of this, there has recently been a decrease in the extent to which history teachers make use of maps in their teaching. It is possible that there are many lost opportunities here. The following sites are just a few which offer access to a wide range of historical maps. It would be helpful to use these in conjunction with Lez's chapter. University of Texas: Historical Maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/ Old Maps http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ Historical Atlas of the 20th Century plus links to Historical Maps on Other Sites http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/maplinks.htm Historical Maps and Atlases http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/links/maps.htm
Teaching American History Collection This Collection Is In Teaching American History Collection. This collection is in progress. is enhanced by rare and original historical maps provided by the Louisiana State http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/TAH/Pages/home.html
Extractions: Teaching American History Collection This collection is in progress. Materials are being added weekly. Collection Description Original documents such as diaries, maps, photographs, speeches and memoirs are the raw materials of history. As part of the historical record, these clues provide physical links to the participants and witnesses of past events and enable researchers to view those events from multiple perspectives. By revealing the language, values, hopes and fears of people who lived in the past, primary sources humanize history and add dimension to the names and facts detailed in books. When introduced into the classroom setting, historical artifacts become powerful tools with which students can critically analyze events of the past and imagine the possibilities for their future. The TAHIL collection also contains original documents concerning depression-era Louisiana and detailing Huey P. Long's "Share Our Wealth" program. From the Historic New Orleans Collection, a variety of original broadsides and speeches offer insight into the popular appeal of Long's Louisiana program. Transportation maps provided by the Louisiana State Museum illustrate the results of Long's massive road-building program. The Louisiana State Archives Collection offers researchers a unique opportunity to critically assess the relief programs implemented during the administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. As part of the Archives' collection, the 1932-33 records of the outgoing Urban Relief Administration detail the results of their relief programs in Louisiana. For comparison, the 1933 records of the newly established Federal Emergency Relief Administration detail the goals and objectives of FDR's New Deal administration.
EcoAtlas: History Maps Watersheds The Bay Area historical Ecology Project. History maps Watersheds These teachers created tools for teaching about the land and the life it supports. http://www.sfei.org/ecoatlas/HistoricalEcology/HistMapsWshed.html
Extractions: Home FAQ GIS Historical ... Historical Ecology / History Maps Watersheds History Maps Watersheds With the support of the Center for Ecoliteracy, San Francisco Estuary Institute staff and local educators are working together to learn how to translate the EcoAtlas into practical classroom materials for exploring local landscape change. The project will help SFEI make the information developed through our watershed science efforts into a packet of watershed-specific maps, photography, text, and artwork, which can be delivered to local educational institutions and programs for distribution and use. During the past four years, artists and scientists from SFEI have developed richly detailed historical and modern views of Bay Area landscapes. Early maps, paintings, photographs, journals, and oral histories have been assembled to illustrate the native landscape of local watersheds and 200 years of change. Our goal is to bring this wealth of environmental information into local communities through teachers, students, and community leaders. We have chosen to start with teachers in the neighboring communities of Wildcat Creek.
LII - Results For "united States History Study Teaching" Teaching with Historic Places. This site contains lesson plans that use properties This site features thematic sets of historical maps accompanied by http://www.lii.org/search?searchtype=subject;query=United States History Study t
LII - Results For "teaching Aids Devices" Results for teaching aids devices 1 to 20 of 85 (view all) This site features thematic sets of historical maps accompanied by lesson plans written for http://www.lii.org/search?searchtype=subject;query=Teaching Aids devices;subsear
Extractions: The modern geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes urban areas, transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), public land survey, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital elevation models and satellite imagery. Users can create, save, and print custom maps, as well interactively blend/fade/merge and overlay/swipe multiple map layers for enabling real-time visual change analysis over the Internet. Results of the user customized map layer visualizations can be saved and downloaded as new images, complete with the georeferencing information, thereby allowing easy integration into other desktop GIS applications. View GIS Basic Browser View GIS Professional Browser The Lewis and Clark maps can also be viewed in their original, non georeferenced (non GIS) form using the Insight Browser link below. View Insight Browser (non GIS) Teachers and Students: See by Lynn Malone, an ArcLesson that explores and explains the use of GIS and historical maps on this site to learn more about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The ArcLesson is part of ESRI's GIS Teaching site
Homeschooling - Educational Sites To See teachAt-Home.com Educational Sites to See Award. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. http://www.teach-at-home.com/fastfacts/StS/ListSTS.asp?A=A&P=46
Sample Focus On Teaching Proposal #3 the session utilizes both historical and contemporary maps of the African to encourage increased awareness of the importance of maps in teaching the http://www.oah.org/meetings/teaching/prospectus3.htm
Extractions: This is a sample Focus on Teaching proposal which was accepted by the OAH Committee on Teaching. These proposals are meant to demonstrate the qualities of a successful session and are for illustration only. View: Prospectus #1 Prospectus #2 Prospectus #3 There will be no papers in this session only three panelists who through using new and old maps, detailing the African Diaspora, will discuss three topics; 1) Slavery to Reconstruction, 2) Reconstruction to the present, and 3) African-American Women in the Diaspora. The presenters will present in their chosen field and will discuss how maps can facilitate a more effective teaching of their area. Handouts and transparencies will be utilized by all presenters to involve those present in the session. The first presenter, [name removed], is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of African-American Studies at [university removed]. He will discuss Slavery to Reconstruction and will also serve as the Moderator for the session. The second presenter, [name removed], is an Associate Professor of History, at [university removed] and will discuss the African Diaspora since Reconstruction. The final presenter, [name removed] a doctoral student at [university removed] and currently [position removed], will discuss tracking African-American Women through history using maps. Teaching The African Diaspora Through Maps: A New Approach to integrating African-American History into the Curriculum
H1918-1945 Teaching Resources Resources for Teaching. Course Syllabi. Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois World War II Theaters maps of the United States (including historical maps http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/h1918/hnetteaching.htm
Extractions: Resources for Teaching Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, The Great Depression in the United States, 1929-1942 Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, AMERICA, 1918-1945: PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, AND WAR Robert McElvaine, Millsaps College, Topics in American Culture Michael O'Malley, George Mason University, Between the Wars, The United States, 1919-1941 Peter Rachleff, Macalester College, THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE U.S. Gail Radford, SUNY-Buffalo, New Deal America Patricia Raub, American Life During the Great Depression Patrick D. Reagan, Tennessee Technological University, The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945 David L. Stebenne, Ohio State University, SENIOR COLLOQUIUM ON THE NEW DEAL Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University, United States 1916-1945 Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University, Graduate Seminar, 1920s and 1930s David Ulbrich, Kansas State University, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, AMERICA, AND THE WORLD Andrew Workman, Mills College, Prosperity, Depression, and War
Teaching Historical Thinking. ERIC Digest. Teaching historical Thinking. ERIC Digest. by Drake, Frederick D. political cartoons, posters, maps, artifacts, sound recordings, and motion pictures http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-2/historical.html
Extractions: Information Literacy Blog Teaching Historical Thinking. ERIC Digest. by Drake, Frederick D. Over the past decade, cognitive studies researcher Samuel Wineburg has conducted empirical studies to compare the way historians think about primary and secondary sources with the thinking processes of high school students and teachers. Wineburg discusses his research in a recently published (2001) book about historical thinking, which is the main source for this Digest. Wineburg's research demonstrates the importance of domain-based or subject-specific thinking in the teaching and learning of history. This Digest addresses Wineburg's conception of historical thinking and its application to the teaching and learning of history in schools. The Digest discusses (1) Wineburg's "sourcing heuristic" and "corroboration heuristic" in historical thinking, (2) Wineburg's findings on historical thinking and domain-specific knowledge, (3) applications of historical thinking to reading and interpreting documents, and (4) Internet-resources for teachers of historical thinking. THE "SOURCING HEURISTIC" AND "CORROBORATION HEURISTIC."
