| Mapmakers,
at their best, demonstrate special gifts that enable
them to perceive, to frame, and to present the world
in a powerful way. Once a map is drawn it becomes a
cultural and political text to be read and used in various
ways, possessing latent powers to inform, stimulate,
provoke, and enrich readers. When students study maps,
they look at the cultural, social, economic, and political
messages, as well as the geographic message. They also
endeavor to decipher the mapmakers code or vision. Through
this process they may catch new angles of perception
that can in turn spark their imaginations. In their
highest function, maps deepen our understanding of the
earth, its people, places, and times, and what it means
for us to call the earth our home.
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|
Curriculum
Ideas |
Lesson
Plans |
| Peutinger
Table, ca. 250 CE |
•
The Roman Empire
• Roman civilization; Engineering and administration
• Transportation networks and political rule
|
A
Road Map for the Roman Empire
Grades: 9-12
NCSS
Standards: I, II, III
|
| Caravan
Route: Morocco to Mecca, 1683 |
•
Pilgrimage to Mecca
• The Pillars of Islam
• Sacred places and spaces |
A
Pilgrimage Through Time and Space
Grades: 9-12
NCSS
Standards:
I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX
|
| Gibraltar,
ca. 1706 |
•
Sea-borne Empires
• Strategic places
• The Rock of Gibraltar between 1706-2006
|
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| Port
of Goletta (La Goulette), 1764
|
•
Bellin's The World Ocean in five volumes
• World trade
• Globalism |
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| Nautical
Chart -- Eastern Mediterranean, 1818 |
• A Sea Chart for the New Republic
• Nationalism and maps; concept of a new nation
• How do maps reflect nationalism? |
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|
European
Turkey, 1829 |
•
Use in conjunction with the map of Sardinia below
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| Sardinia
(Sardegna), 1845 |
•
The New Science and Maps
• Importance of measurement and depiction
in science
• Geometry, geology and maps |
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| Rome,
1852
|
• Use in conjunction with map Archaeological
Zone in Athens |
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| Eastern
Palestine, ca. 1881 |
•
Use in conjunction with the map of Sardinia above |
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| Thera,
1899 |
•
Site of a Minoan Center
• Location: site and situation
• The spread of civilization in the ancient
world |
Hotel
Development on a Greek Island
Grades: 11, 12
NCSS
Standards:
I, III, IV, VII
|
| The
Port of Bizerto (Bizerte), 1920 |
•
Use in conjunction with the nautical chart of the
Eastern Mediterranean or the map of the Port of
Goletta above |
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| Greece,
1929 |
•
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Eastern Mediterranean or the map of the Sardinia
above and also as a reference for the map of Thera |
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| Archaeological
Zone in Athens, 1936 |
•
An urban neighborhood
• Urbanism as a way of life
• Living and getting around in a city |
An
Archaeological Adventure in Athens
Grades: 4, 5, 6
NCSS
Standards: II, III, VIII |
| Turkey
1941-1953 |
• Use in conjunction with map of the Archaeological
Zone in Athens and/or the map of Sardinia above |
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| Trans-Jordan
Goat Tracks, 1945 |
•
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map of Caravan Routes above |
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| Cyprus,
1953-1957 |
•
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|
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