Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 from Tom Snyder Productions
Create, navigate, and print community maps while building essential skills!
With this hands-on program, students create maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places. As students create and navigate community maps, they learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation. Students can customize maps with pictures, movies, and Web links; print maps in multiple sizes; or present them in a slideshow or on the Internet.
New features in Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0:
- 20+ NEW Cross-curricular learning activities
- 20+ NEW map symbols
- the ability to link to the Internet from any map symbol.
MEETS STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
Your students will:
- Locate places using the four cardinal directions
- Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps
- Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps
- Use written language to communicate directions
- Calculate, compare, and convert length, perimeter, and area
What's Included:
A Mac/Win CD-ROM including 25 cross-curricular activity files, and a Teacher's Guide with sample maps, cutouts, lesson plans, and pre- and post-tests.
Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 from Tom Snyder Productions
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