If Maps Could Talk: Using Symbols and Keys (First Facts: Map Mania)

Shores, Erika L.

ISBN 10: 142960056X ISBN 13: 9781429600569

Publisher: First Facts, 2007

Synopsis

A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: • Perpetual license • 24 hour, 7 days a week access • No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time • Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available • Easy to use • Ability to turn audio on and off • Words highlighted to match audio Black dots. Blue, curvy lines. What do those strange drawings mean? With a key and the skills to read it, you'll unlock the language of maps.

About this title

Synopsis

Maps can seem confusing, but they're really just views from above. So who better to guide young readers through the world of maps than Ace McCaw, a geographically gifted parrot who knows how to de-code the language of maps. Big, colourful maps and accompanying photos support exploring the world in spatial terms in this fresh approach to maps. It also includes these features: maps on every spread; illustrated character that serves as a guide to the subject; contextual definitions of unfamiliar words; Fact! Boxes; 'Amazing but True'; hands-on activity; 'Read More' resources; Internet sites; and, the World in Spatial Terms - how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective, and how to analyse the spatial organisations of people, places, and environments on the earth's surface.

About the Author

Erika L. Shores is the author of dozens of children s nonfiction books. She studied English at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She lives in North Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband and their two children.

Edition details

• Publisher: First Facts
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142960056X
• ISBN 13: 9781429600569
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24