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"Examine and understand how to prepare maps, charts, and other visual representations to locate places and interpret geographic information." [|ODE Documentation]
 * Oregon State Standard ** - SS.05.GE.02

"Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective." [|Education World Documentation]
 * National Standard ** - NSS-G.K-12.1

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 * Lesson Plan Pages: **

** Resources - ** Map Knowledge Quiz: Student-Led Directional Activity: Google Maps Sheppard Software [|Find Your Longitude Game] [|USGS Map Lesson Plans] [|Green Map] [|Map Quest] [|Google Earth]
 * This is a link to a map skills quiz (along with the key) in pdf file form. It is set up to test student's skills in basic legend reading and directional use.
 * This is a fun web activity that could help students better understand directions, the compass rose, and how to locate areas on a map using this information.
 * This program is a great (and free) way to see geography in an interesting way.
 * This site has a bunch of cool games that are organized by Continent, and then subdivided into states/countries/landscapes. Further separated by difficulty.
 * This is a fun, interactive way to learn about Longitude- how it relates to maps, time zones and traveling the seas.
 * The USGS has a set of four lesson plans on maps that include a comprehensive introduction to maps; things you need to know to read a map, what you can learn on maps and how to read topographical maps. The USGS also has many comprehensive other lesson plans on geography for all ages.
 * This is an international database of locally-made maps, many of them highlighting social and ecology issues of note in their communities.
 * Just enter a start point and a destination and this program will map a route for you. 360 degree street level photos available soon! This site illustrates how adults use road maps in everyday life.
 * Put this program on your classroom computer for kids to use on their own, or use in front of the whole class. Google earth shows real photographs of the earth at every scale. So much fun, they'll never realize they're learning.