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Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
URL: http://www.newberry.org/K12maps/

Description:
This site features thematic sets of historical maps "accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula." Themes include exploration, migration, environmental history, transportation, political and military history, and American communities. Also provides a glossary. From the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library.

Publisher:
The Newberry Library

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Historical geography
Maps
Teaching -- Aids and devices
United States -- History -- Study and teaching

LII Database Information:
Record 12886 created by Sybil Finemel on 04/10/2005
Last modification on 11/10/2009
Published: 04/10/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12886