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    This document provides a teacher's guide for analyzing maps as a primary source. It outlines an observe, question, reflect framework to encourage close examination of maps. Students are prompted to make detailed observations about graphical elements, locations, words and anything unusual. They are encouraged to generate hypotheses about the map's purpose and audience as well as compare it to modern maps. Finally, students are guided to identify further questions for additional investigation.

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    This document provides a teacher's guide for analyzing maps as a primary source. It outlines an observe, question, reflect framework to encourage close examination of maps. Students are prompted to make detailed observations about graphical elements, locations, words and anything unusual. They are encouraged to generate hypotheses about the map's purpose and audience as well as compare it to modern maps. Finally, students are guided to identify further questions for additional investigation.

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    This document provides a teacher's guide for analyzing maps as a primary source. It outlines an observe, question, reflect framework to encourage close examination of maps. Students are prompted to make detailed observations about graphical elements, locations, words and anything unusual. They are encouraged to generate hypotheses about the map's purpose and audience as well as compare it to modern maps. Finally, students are guided to identify further questions for additional investigation.

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    Analyzing Maps

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    Teachers Guide

    BSERVE

    Guide students with the sample questions as they respond to the


    primary source. Encourage them to go back and forth between the
    columns; there is no correct order.

    REFLECT

    Have students identify and note details.

    QUESTION

    Encourage students to generate and


    test hypotheses about the source.

    Have students ask questions to lead to


    more observations and reflections.

    Describe what you see. What do you notice

    Why do you think this map was made? Who do you

    What do you wonder about...

    first? What size and shape is the map? What

    think the audience was for this map? How do you

    who? what? when? where? why? how?

    graphical elements do you see? What on the map

    think this map was made? How does it compare to

    looks strange or unfamiliar? Describe anything

    current maps of this place? What does this map tell

    that looks like it does not belong on a map. What

    you about what the people who made it knew and

    place or places does the map show? What, if any,

    what they didnt? If this map was made today, what

    words do you see?

    would be different? What would be the same?

    Sample Questions:

    F U R T h E R I N V E S T I g AT I O N

    Help students to identify questions appropriate for further investigation, and to develop a research strategy for finding answers.
    Sample Question:

    What more do you want to know, and how can you find out?

    A few follow-up
    activity ideas:

    Beginning
    Have students write a brief description of the map in their
    own words.
    Intermediate
    Study three or more maps of a city or state at different time
    periods. Arrange them in chronological order. Discuss clues to
    the correct sequence.

    LOC.gov/teachers

    Advanced
    Search for maps of a city or state from different periods, then
    compile a list of changes over time and other differences and
    similarities between the maps.

    For more tips on using primary


    sources, go to
    http://www.loc.gov/teachers

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