Comic-Strip Map Skills: 30 Reproducible, Rib-Tickling Cartoons with Related Maps and Questions That Build Map Skills

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Scholastic, 2001 - Education - 64 pages
These cartoons and maps will tickle their funny bones and teach essential map skills such as latitude and longitude, cardinal directions, map keys and symbols, using a scale, reading political, historical, and physical maps and lots more! A fun and easy way to meet the geography standards. For use with Grades 4-8.
 

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Introduction
4
Cardinal Directions
5
Intermediate Directions
6
Intermediate Directions
7
Intermediate Directions
9
Intermediate Directions
11
Degrees on a Compass
13
Degrees on a Compass
14
Parallels of Latitude
31
Meridians of Longitude
33
Reading Longitude and Latitude
34
Time Zone Map
37
Political Map Boundaries
39
Political Map Boundaries
41
Road Map
43
Elevation Map
45

Reading a Key
16
Reading a Key
17
Reading Scale Direct Distances
19
Reading Scale Direct Distances
20
Reading Scale Direct Distances
22
Birds of a Feather
24
Reading Scale Curved Distances
25
Using a Map Grid
27
Using a Map Grid
28
Population Map
47
Economic Map
49
Weather Map
51
Trail Map
53
Historical Maps
55
Floorplans
56
Answers
58
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