BY: Bill Jamieson, 6/15/’97, Kentland, IN

Site Address: www.usgs.gov

Theme: map skills

Grade Level: 7

Annotation of Site:

You can find out information as to the services and products available from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Classroom-ready maps are down-loadable; views of satellite images, aerial photographs, and other types of maps not traditionally used in the classroom are available. Local, state, national and international data is provided. Your tax dollars pay for these services; use them! They are great!

Geography Standards addressed:

• #1) How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a geographic perspective.
• #2) How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places and environments from a spatial context.
• #18) How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.