Sales Points- An innovative way to give kids practice with map keys and symbols, compass directions, grids, and more.- Fully reproducible.- Boosts both map-reading and geography skills.
This book is designed to help students learn the basic skills of map reading. It provides 18 lessons which can be used in a traditional classroom setting or in a cooperative learning environment.
Syria is the Middle East's best kept secret. With its many site plans and maps, readable text and 96 color photos, this book makes available for the first time the immensely wealthy history, archaeology and architecture of Syria to the general reader and interested traveler.
Map Mysteries is designed to acquaint students with U.S. geography. Map skills are the chief objectives of Map Mysteries but activities will stimulate higher-level thinking skills as well.
A highly visual exploration of diagrams and data that helps you understand how "maps" are part of everyday thinking, how they tell stories, and how they can reframe your point of view, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school. “This book is the ultimate legend to mapping all kinds of data.”—Jessica Hagy, Webby Award-winning blogger of Indexed and author of How to Be Interesting (In Ten Simple Steps) Maps aren’t just geographic, they are also infographic and include all types of frameworks and diagrams. Any figure that sorts data visually and presents it spatially is a map. Maps are ways of organizing information and figuring out what’s important. Even stories can be mapped! The Secret Language of Maps provides a simple framework to deconstruct existing maps and then shows you how to create your own. An embedded mystery story about a woman who investigates the disappearance of an old high school friend illustrates how to use different maps to make sense of all types of information. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life and demonstrate how the fictional character’s collection of data, properly organized and “mapped,” leads her to solve the mystery of her friend’s disappearance. You’ll learn how to gather data, organize it, and present it to an audience. You’ll also learn how to view the many maps that swirl around our daily lives with a critical eye, aware of the forces that are in play for every creator.
Want to know the best way to thwart the ghost that haunts your local convenience store? Or how to crack a top secret code? Find out in this jam-packed guide featuring tips, activities, and the show's trademark quirky humor. From Dipper's advice on how to handle the supernatural, to unlocking codes and ciphers, this imaginative guide is sure to be a hit with fans of the show!
One quaint cottage! A mysterious map! One lukewarm log! And a productive print shop! Equals one historic adventure. Grant and Christina can't wait to visit Colonial Williamsburg with their mystery-writing grandmother Mimi and cowboy-pilot grandfather Papa. "It feels like you are whisked back in time when you go to Williamsburg!" says Mimi. And as soon as the kids arrive, they're whisked into a quirky colonial mystery involving a valuable-and missing-map! It's a gift for the Queen of England-but where is it? Join Grant and Christina as they tour some taverns, carouse in the Capitol, take a wild carriage ride, and even end up in 'gool'-all in the name of the Queen! It's a map mix-up you don't want to miss! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Royal Colony of Virginia in 1750 facts and geographical information Š Queen of England Š Tobacco farming in the 1700's - Importance to trade Š Upper HouseŠ including the Royal Governor and his council and Š lower house Š including the House of Burgesses Š Cartogrophy Š Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ŠThe Purloined Letter Š Colonial Williamsburg Š Christiana Campbell's Tavern Š Market Square Š Capitol Building Š General Court Š Duke of Gloucester Street Š The Kings Arms Tavern Š Chownings Tavern Š College of William and Mary Š The Gaol (Jail) Š Governor's Palace. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.8 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 129389 Lexile Measure: 740 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40
"Inside this fun-filled book you will find mysteries that seem impossible to solve. A huge, antique player piano disappears without a trace. An entire train mysteriously vanishes from its garage. Silverware goes missing, piece by piece, when the homeowners are away at work. A man is poisoned who seems to have no enemies. Valuables disappear from a couple's home every Wednesday night. An accordion seems to disappear into thin air. Christmas lights are stolen, almost ruining the holidays. An intriguing purple planet is discovered by astronomers, who take a spaceship to discover its secrets. There are clues in each story for you to find. Can you solve the mysteries?"--Back cover.
This map-tastic middle grade story from Andrew Clements gives the phrase “uncharted territory” a whole new meaning! Alton Barnes loves maps. He’s loved them ever since he was little, and not just for the geography. Because maps contain more information than just locations, and that’s why he likes to draw them as well as read them. Regular “point A to point B” ones, sure, but also maps that explain a whole lot more—like what he really thinks about his friends. And teachers. Even the principal. So when Alton’s maps are stolen from his locker, there’s serious trouble on the horizon…and he’ll need some serious cartographic skills to escape it. From “a genius of gentle, high-concept tales set in suburban middle schools” (The New York Times), this stand-alone story is off the charts.
Get students on the road to success with 20 fun, reproducible games that teach important map and geography skills. Kids learn how to read street maps, identifying land and water formations, determine longitude and latitude, and more.