Create, navigate, and print community maps while building essential skills!
With Neighborhood MapMachine program, students create and navigate maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places -- all while learning challenging navigation concepts.
Benefits:
- Locate places using the four cardinal directions
- Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps
- Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps
- Use written language to communicate directions
- Calculate, compare, and convert length, perimeter, and area
Key Features:
- Easily create and customize community maps
- 25 standards-aligned activities in social studies, math, and language arts
- Solve map mysteries using a compass for navigation
- 80 fun map symbols plus paint tools
- Learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation
- Pre- and post-tests to assess students' understanding
- On-screen notebook with audio recorder for students to describe their maps orally or in writing
- Add photos, sounds, and movies to any map symbol to personalize your maps
- Link directly to the internet from any symbol and publish interactive maps on the web
- Present maps with printouts, in a slideshow, or on the internet
- Create 3-D models of neighborhoods with paper cutouts of buildings
- Bilingual - switch easily between English and Spanish
System Requirements:
- Mac: PowerPC 66 MHz, 12 MB RAM, 256 colors; 800x600 resolution; Mac OS 8.6/9/X.1/X.2
- PC: Pentium 133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 16 bit colors; 800x600 resolution; Windows OS 95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XPHome/XPPro