Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781690388364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Carmen Bredeson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613542845
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For use in schools and libraries only. This introductory book describes maps and globes, including the map legend, map scale, directions, equator, and North and South Poles.

Author: Rebecca Olien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531240724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Illustrations and text provide an introduction to the many uses of maps and globes.

Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593126769
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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The Cat in the Hat introduces beginning readers to maps–the different kinds (city, state, world, topographic, temperature, terrain, etc.); their formats (flat, globe, atlas, puzzle); the tools we use to read them (symbols, scales, grids, compasses); and funny facts about the places they show us (“Michigan looks like a scarf and a mitten! Louisiana looks like a chair you can sit in!”).

Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425825575
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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With a map and a globe, you can explore new places. They show you where to go. They show you what to expect once you get there. With a map in hand and a heart for adventure, you are ready to see the world. This engaging book introduces early readers to the concept of how to read maps and globes. Detailed images in conjunction with easy-to-read text and basic text features provide readers with an inviting reading and learning experience.

Author: Ray Broekel
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780516416953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Children's Press is pleased to introduce True Books for a new generation Completely redesigned for today's young, investigative reader, True Books are an indispensable addition to any collection. Each book guides the reader through the facts that nurture their need to know.The new, dynamic True Books design features: -- an inviting and interactive page format -- a readable and attractive typeface -- large, bold, and brilliant full-color photographsThe True Books series takes the young reader beyond the standard, fact-filled text by adding avenues for further discovery. Each book includes a variety of sidebars, highlighting extra facts that will fascinate children. In the Important Words section, young readers will find a glossary of words that will both challenge and expand their vocabulary. Each book includes a To Find Out More section, where every curious reader can find a list of related books to read and organizations to contact.True Books also point readers to the vast electronic universe of information on the Internet. Each book will list: -- e-mail addresses to help the reader contact individuals and organizations -- appropriate newsgroups and mailing lists -- FTP sites to download fun and useful softwareBegun in the 1950s, True Books are universally embraced as the definitive nonfiction series for young readers. Now in its third incarnation, the True Books series has once again evolved to meet the needs and tastes of modern readers and educators.

Author: Mary Dodson Wade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531296882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Introduces different types of maps and how they are used, including those that show how to get to a place and those that show what you will find when you arrive.

Author: Sarah De Capua
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531297001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Provides an introduction to the cardinal directions and how to find them using a compass, the Sun, and a map.

Author: Joan Sweeney
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 152477202X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.

Author: Sylvia Sumira
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613914X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted the idea. The first record of an actual globe being made is found in verse, written by the poet Aratus of Soli, who describes a celestial sphere of the stars by Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408–355 BC). The oldest surviving globe—a celestial globe held up by Atlas’s shoulders—dates back to 150 AD, but in the West, globes were not made again for about a thousand years. It was not until the fifteenth century that terrestrial globes gained importance, culminating when German geographer Martin Behaim created what is thought to be the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. In Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power, Sylvia Sumira, beginning with Behaim’s globe, offers a authoritative and striking illustrated history of the subsequent four hundred years of globe making. Showcasing the impressive collection of globes held by the British Library, Sumira traces the inception and progression of globes during the period in which they were most widely used—from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century—shedding light on their purpose, function, influence, and manufacture, as well as the cartographers, printers, and instrument makers who created them. She takes readers on a chronological journey around the world to examine a wide variety of globes, from those of the Renaissance that demonstrated a renewed interest in classical thinkers; to those of James Wilson, the first successful commercial globe maker in America; to those mass-produced in Boston and New York beginning in the 1800s. Along the way, Sumira not only details the historical significance of each globe, but also pays special attention to their materials and methods of manufacture and how these evolved over the centuries. A stunning and accessible guide to one of the great tools of human exploration, Globes will appeal to historians, collectors, and anyone who has ever examined this classroom accessory and wondered when, why, and how they came to be made.