• Compare maps and make inferences.

(Ideas relate to a unit on dairy farming)

• Look at maps in old newspapers, atlases, or plat books. Compare the maps to those found in current newspapers, atlases, or plat books. Identify where dairy farms were or are located on each map and tell why changes have taken place.

• Talk about political boundaries and how they affect farming practices.

• Examine various types of maps and determine why dairy farmers chose to develop farms in particular places.

• Examine various types of maps and determine how dairy farmers relate to other people and their activities in the area.

• Examine various types of maps and determine patterns of movement of dairy farmers throughout history.

• Examine maps of various types of areas and identify how dairy farming may differ in mountainous, coastal, rainforest, plains, forested, or desert regions.

• Use maps on the Internet and locate information about farmers in the various types of regions.

• Maps for textbooks

• Maps from travel bureaus

• Maps from government documents

• Activities from the web that relate directly to teaching about comparing maps and making inferences.

• Activities from textbooks or curriculum guides that give ideas for helping children compare maps and making inference.

• Activities that give ideas about helping children read visual material.

(Examples)

Relating symbols to their meanings. (Line, color, shape, size, texture, specific designs, etc.)

Noting detail related to the subject of the visual.

Comparing various visuals to note likenesses and differences.

Asking questions about visuals and find answers by using related sources.

• Old maps and new maps of the same areas.

• Maps of the same place giving different types of information.

• Transparenices showing different information about the same area.