Cartography Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Cartography. Products may contain comprehensive summaries, analysis, notes, articles, essays, lesson plans and more. See below for details on what is included.

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Study Cartography

The Cartography Study Pack contains about 16 pages of study material in 3 products, including:

Encyclopedia Articles (3)

The Early History of Cartography

1,567 words, approx. 6 pages

The Early History of Cartography Overview A recent survey noted that nearly one-third of the people living in the United States could not distinguish North from South on a map. These results are somew... Read more

Finding Mecca: Mapmaking in the Islamic World

1,431 words, approx. 5 pages

Finding Mecca: Mapmaking in the Islamic World Overview The Islamic tradition of mapmaking dates almost to the very dawn of Islam, driven in part by the necessity for all Muslims to face Mecca during t... Read more

Cartography

1,711 words, approx. 6 pages

Cartography Cartography is the creation, production, and study of maps. It is considered a subdiscipline of geography, the study of spatial distribution of various phenomena. Cartographers are often g... Read more

Teacher Resources & Activities

Lesson plans & activities (1)

Mapping Skills Gr. 4-6

19,200 words, approx. 65 pages

This resource provides in-depth coverage of the skill needs in map reading: north-south-east-west, legend, scale, longitude and latitude. Students make their own maps of the classroom, school and n... Read more