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Find Your Half!
January 1, 1993... The equator divides Earth into halves called the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. Write the name of each hemisphere in the correct box. Study the globes above. Then, in the chart, list the hemisphere in which each continent...

World News Roundup!
January 1, 1993... This is Station WRIM bringing you news flashes from around the world! We'll tell you what's happening and where it's happening. Then it's up to you to find each place on the map. Here's what to do: (1) Work with a partner. (2) Trace...

Check the Climate!
January 1, 1993... A member of your family has just gotten a great job offer from a company in Philadelphia and one from a company in Denver. But your family can't decide in which city they would prefer to live. Before choosing, your family decides to check the...

What's the Weather?
January 1, 1993... SALT LAKE CITY Utah--Storm drops 12 inches of snow in a 24-hour period. Schools and businesses close. Snowplows work day and night to clear roadways. WINKELMAN, Ariz.--Heavy rains cause flooding as 4 feet of water fills basements and...

World Climate.
January 1, 1993... Hot and humid! Cold and snowy! Warm and rainy! No matter what words you use, when you talk about yearly temperature and precipitation, you're talking about climate. The climates of the United States are like the climates found in many other...

Where Is Everyone?
January 1, 1993... Every ten years, the United States government takes a census. During a census, the United States counts its people. Sometimes a census taker goes door-to-door, asking how many children and adults live in each home. When everyone has...

Places and Products.
January 1, 1993... Climate is one reason people move from one location to another. But people also move to find jobs. Where's the Work? Work with a partner. For each job listed on page 26, underline the name of a state on the map where people might...

Timely Matters!
January 1, 1993... CBS Super Bowl Sunday. AFL and NFL teams go head-to-head for the championship. Game time: 3 p.m. PST. Most football fans wouldn't want to miss this Super Bowl game. But a lot of sports fans may not see the game if they turn or their TVs at...

Mall of America.
January 1, 1993... * BLOOMINGTON, Minn.-Welcome to the Mall of America. Come on in and look around. The Mall of America is the largest shopping and entertainment center in the United States. It has four floors, 350 stores, 14 theaters, and 31 restaurants....

Glossary.
January 1, 1993... altitude-the height of land above sea level cartographer-a person who draws maps census-a count of the population of an area climate-the kind of weather a place has year after year compass-a tool used to determine direction ...

Series Overview.
January 1, 1993... Students in today's classrooms need to develop a geographic awareness that will prepare them for a global future. Simply learning geographic concepts and mastering map skills are not enough. The future asks that students integrate these...

In the United States Overview.
January 1, 1993... As students begin Using Maps...in the United States, they learn that people have been drawing maps for more than 4,000 years. Today, mapmakers, or cartographers, use aerial photographs to locate places on Earth, a map scale to represent the...

Skills Overview.
January 1, 1993... Students learn to use * a map scale; * a grid and map coordinates; * an aerial photograph as the basis for making a map; * a map of the United States to identify the 39th parallel; * parallels of latitude, degrees of...

Suggested Monthly Plan.
January 1, 1993... By using timely topics and current events to introduce concepts and teach corresponding skills, the Weekly Reader USING MAPS series updates and enriches your social studies curriculum. Although each unit of study in USING MAPS... in the...

Classroom. (Resources).
January 1, 1993... Have available local maps, state maps, maps of the United States, world maps; globe; Yellow pages and White pages of local phone book; crayons; drawing paper; poster paper; writing paper for daily logs or journals; old tennis balls or...

Community. (Resources).
January 1, 1993... To find places that sell or donate maps in your community, look in the Yellow pages, Blue pages, or White Pages of your local phone book under the following headings: Yellow Pages Gasoline Service Stations Book Dealers ...

Books To Enjoy. (Resources).
January 1, 1993... Reserve one or more of these books from the school or public library for the duration of the unit, if possible. Try to read aloud two or more books to the class per week. Encourage students to read some of the books on their own or with a book...

Read-Aloud Books. (Resources).
January 1, 1993... Explorers and Mapmakers, Peter Ryan, Dutton/Lodestar, 1990 Weather and Climate, Seymour Simon, Random House, 1969 Deserts, Seymour Simon, Morrow, 1990 Dogsong, Gary Paulsen, Puffin Books, 1987 An Ellis Island Christmas, Maxinne...

Unit 1: Locating Places on a Map and a Globe.
January 1, 1993... Background Information When John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth in a spacecraft more than 30 years ago, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was a hard place for tourists to find. Today, it has a new...

Unit 2: Hemispheres, Latitude and Longitude.
January 1, 1993... Background Information The largest rain forest on Earth, the Amazon rain forest, is located along the equator in South America. The 4000-mile-long Amazon River curves and winds its way through this rain forest, which contains hundreds of...

Unit 3: Climate and Weather.
January 1, 1993... Background Information Weather conditions can change swiftly and lead to extreme situations. A winter storm can hit suddenly and confine everyone to their homes. An earthquake, a flood, a tornado, or any extreme weather condition can cut...

Unit 4: Population, Time Zones, Land Use.
January 1, 1993... Background Information Shopping malls are an American invention. A few shopping centers existed prior to World War II, but after 1945, the idea caught on and spread worldwide. Today, there are more than 35,000 shopping centers or malls in...

What Is Latitude?
January 1, 1993... On a map or globe, a latitude is another word for parallel. Lines of latitude help people locate places on Earth. The equator is the most important line of latitude. All other lines of latitude measure distance from the equator, either...

Crossing The Line.
January 1, 1993... Although the woods were dark, traveling at night was much safer. In the daytime, someone might find her and send her home. She tripped and stumbled, ripping her clothes, but she kept going. She would endure any hardship to gain her freedom. ...

Who Draws Maps?
January 1, 1993... People have been drawing maps for years. In fact, the oldest known map was drawn more than 4,000 years ago. It was drawn on damp clay with a stick. Later the clay hardened. Today, cartographers, or mapmakers, use computers to draw maps....

Meet a Friend.
January 1, 1993... If you told a friend to meet you on Keystone Avenue and gave that person this map, you'd probably never find each other! How would your friend know where on Keystone Avenue to meet you? It would be easier if you told your friend to meet you...

Why Do Newspapers Use Maps? Somalia Relief Effort.
January 1, 1993... In the country Somalia, a long drought dried up the land. Crops could not grow. Farm animals died. There was no food for people to eat, and thousands were starving. Many countries, including the United States, sent food to Somalia. Now...

A View from Space.
January 1, 1993... "This was it! We were 100 miles up and going at a speed of 25,730 feet per second. Now, for the first time, I could look out the window and see back along the flight path.... Oh,... that view was tremendous!... I could see for hundreds of miles...