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 Create, navigate, and print community maps while building essential skills!
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- 5 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.
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 |
PRODUCT FEATURES | Easily create and customize community maps | | 25 standards-aligned activities in social studies, math, and language arts | | Solve map mysteries using compass for navigation | | 80 fun map symbols plus paint tools | | Pre- and post-tests to assess students' understanding | | On-screen notebook with audio recorder for students to describe their maps orally or in writing | | Add photos, sounds, and movies to any map symbol to personalize your maps | | Link directly to the Internet from any symbol, and publish interactive maps on the Web | | Create 3-D models of neighborhoods with paper cutouts of buildings | | Bilingual - switch easily between English and Spanish |
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Peggy Healy Stearns, Ph.D. | | |
 | | With over 20 years of experience as a classroom teacher and district technology coordinator at the K-12 level,Peggy's innovative designs and intimate understanding of how to engage and teach children are reflected in the many award-winning software programs she has developed.Best-sellers
include Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0,The Graph Club 2.0,and Community Construction Kit ,all published by Tom Snyder Productions. | |
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Save up to 35%! The Deluxe Version includes Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 and the Ready-Made Activities CD.
IMPROVE LEARNING ACROSS YOUR CURRICULUM! The Ready-Made Activities CD includes 70 additional cross-curricular, standards-aligned map activities. With these structured practice activities, students: Develop understanding of scale, cardinal direction, and grid coordinate systems; Practice reading and understanding map symbols; Follow written and oral directions | |
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   |  | 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. | |  |
    | 2004 Earlychildhood NEWS Directors' Choice Award | | Parents' Choice Approved Award | | eSchool News Readers' Choice Award |
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