Online Geography Resources |
Mapping Skills |
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Starter |
How many of the states of the United States of America can you locate on a map? Play a game to warm up? |
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Aim of this lesson: |
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Map Conventions |
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Annotated Maps |
Annotating maps requires students to include comments on the map itself and to place these comments in the relevant locations. Comments added after the maps are not acceptable. Common problems tend to be that students produce small, untidy, inaccurate maps that are not located and lack orientation. |
The following is a well annotated map showing the population distribution of Brazil: |
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Task |
Produce an annotated map that shows the distribution of McDonald's in the contiguous United States. |
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Visualization of the contiguous United States, coloured by distance to the nearest domestic McDonalds
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Review |
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