Re: Target:HS:Geography help needed

[Joyce Conklin <jconkli@SMCOE.K12.CA.US>]

http://www.indo.com/distance/

>I don't know about you, but my first response was that would be easy
>to do with an atlas.  Wrong!  He wants them to find it on the internet.

I used <http://Google.com> to search on "latitude and longitude search" to
find the URL at the beginning of this message. The main purpose is to find
the distance between two sites, but the second site map coordinates are
optional, so you can get the search engine to locate any pair of coordinates
on a world map.

This is a physical map only, and there are no names, but once you have the
approximate location, the student can look up the applicable country and
find a name that goes with the location. (If the teacher will allow the use
of APPROPRIATE information sources after doing the initial location on the
Internet!)

You can zoom in as much as 4000x the original scale, but... that usually
results in a mark ("X"!) with a lot of white space around it. 2000x still
shows some physical borders.


Joyce Conklin       jconkli@smcoe.k12.ca.us
San Mateo Union High School District librarian (ret.)
KidsConnect Volunteer
San Mateo, CA
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