2. Geographic Education: Should Start Early

3. Five Themes of Geography F F Location: Absolute and Relative F F Place: Human and Physical Characteristics F F Human Environmental Interactions F F Regions: Political and Geographic F F Movement: People, Goods, and Ideas

4. Five Skills for Interpreting Map Data F F Reading the Key and Interpreting Symbols F F Determining Longitude and Latitude F F Determining Direction F F Scale and Calculating Distance F F Making Generalizations and Decisions (see resource book for examples of the above skills)

5. Interpreting Symbols: Our Heads are Full of Mental Maps

7. Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

8. Maps have different perspectives of the World

9. Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

10. Interpreting Symbols: Reading Charts

11. Interpreting Symbols: Buckminister’s Fuller’s: Dymaxion Projection

12. Interpreting Symbols: Toads on Logs F F Title: purpose of the cartographer F F Orientation: compass rose F F Author: who is the cartographer F F Date: national boundaries do change F F Scale: perspective of size

13. Interpreting Symbols:Toads on Logs F F Legend: also known as the key F F Outline: leave a border for hole punch F F Grid: make them fine and to scale F F Source: could be you or another map

14. Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

15. A Historical Map prior to the Civil War Uses Color to Symbolize Data

16. A Night View of the U.S.

17. Symbols and Legends: Student Examples

19. Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

21. Interpreting Symbols or Longitude and Latitude

22. Determining Scale and Calculating Distance

23. Determining Directions: Some Primary Ideas

24. Determining Directions: Border Patrol

25. Critical Thinking and Determining Directions

26. Critical Thinking: Map Concepts

27. Critical Thinking: Making Geographic Decisions

28. Review and Development F F In Groups of three to five F F Summarize the Key Points F F Expand and Add Ideas F F Raise Questions for Clarification