By:   Melinda Schaddalee, Goshen Middle School; 6/15/1997

Site Address: http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

Theme: Map Skills

Grade Levels: 3-6

Annotation of Site:

An interactive student site - Students are able to type in a name, their own first or last name for instance, and see how many towns or cities there are in the U.S. that share that name! The listing gives both the location and zip code as well as the latitude and longitude.

Geography Standards Addressed:ational

#1) How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

 Indiana Social Studies Proficiency Guidelines Addressed:

• Explain the relationship between physical and cultural features in the Western World
• Describe and Locate Places in terms of their absolute and relative location
• Use Latitude and Longitude to locate points on a map