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Map Skills Lesson: Map Projections & Distortion, Grades 5-8 Geography
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Why does Greenland look as big as Africa on a classroom map? This lesson answers it: a round Earth cannot be flattened without changing something.
What's inside
- 18 slides, with speaker notes on all 18
- Lesson plan, 2 pages
- Student worksheet, 2 pages
- Answer key, 1 page
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