Having just finished Peter Turchi's Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, I have been thinking of maps quite a bit today. According to author, mapping is about sense-making, and about visualization among other things. While searching out some educational use of map making, I came across this site which contains several ways to use Google mapping tools to help students visualize data as it relates to location:
Maps for Learning
A couple of interesting links are ones that represent census data with location, and another that links AP news stories to location...How might you use these with your classes?
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