Act like you are a soldier in the Civil War, describe the events around you and how you feel about them. If you are writing to a Civil War Soldier, describe the events around your home and community and how they have changed since the war.
Old Clay County, Florida Maps
Make Your Own Map!
Cartography is the study of Map Making. Everyone uses maps in one form or another, GPS, sketching directions on a napkin, to illustrate the height of something, to explain a situation or cyberspace directions. Try your hand at making a map today! But check out the old maps from the early 1800's of our fair county - Click on the Map to see them, they are really cool...
MAPQUEST Excercises
Below are listed four addresses, I'm not going to provide the name of these famous places, just the address. Check out the map feature on Mapquest Maps and when you type in those addresses and search, only then will a map will appear. However, you have to zoom all the way in and you can discover what is written in the gray box. Find out what it is!
1.) 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497 2.) 225 Baker St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 3.) 30 Centre Square • Easton, PA 18042 4.) 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2403
Can you think of any other famous addresses? Email me just the address to the famous location and I will list it in this box! Good Luck!
Directions to...Alaska?
Also check out the fun experiment, how would you get to a library in another state...say Anchorage, Alaska - The Mapquest below gives a great example of a topographical map.
Try our your address on the left hand side with the mapquest direction finder!
Can you make a clubhouse with only newspaper? Find out here by creating a Geodesic Clubhouse!
