MAPS

• CONTEMPORARY MAP SOURCES
  • WisKids Library Geography Map Links
    Hot links (that work!) to the most useful free national online map sources with descriptions written for children
  • Native American Maps
    Most native and many non-native map resources assembled (with links) by Paula Giese
  • Physiographic Image of the U.S.
  
  

• HISTORICAL MAPS ONLINE
  Links to archival maps of the Northeast and Great Lakes from 1630 to 1920
• City Plans
• Maps


• CULTURE MAPS
  • Pre-contact Culture Areas of North America
  • European Settlements and Indian Tribes, 1750
  • Native American Woodland Tribes Culture Map (before 1500)
  • Native American Tribes (1783)
  • Digital Atlas of the U.S.
  • Exploration and Settlement 1675-1800
  • Contemporary Indian Land Areas (1978)
  
  Yankee Migration Map


• ENVIRONMENTAL MAPS
  • EPA Warehouse Web site
  • Interactive Forest Maps, Frontier Forests of the World, 8,000 years ago and today
  • Frontier Forests of North and Central America 8,000 years ago
  • Ecosystem Units
  • Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps — North America
  • The Green Report
  • Global Biodiversity: Species numbers of vascular plants
  
  

USING MAPS

• HARVARD MAP COLLECTION
  Use this index as an exercise in discerning different kinds of maps

• MAP SKILLS
  By 4th graders at New London WI's Lincoln Elementary

• HOW TO READ A MAP
  New York Public Library—Slaughter Collection

• WISKIDS MAP ACTIVITIES: YOU ARE A GEOGRAPHER
  Activities for younger students using the U.S. Gazetteer and other on-line maps from Exploring Wisconsin
• ATLAS MAP WIDGET
  Examples of vectors, etc.