Last week I wrote a weblog put up that includes the newly printed historic map assortment hosted by the Internet Archive. That assortment, the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, is the newest of the historic map collections that I’ve featured on this weblog over the past fifteen years. Here are some others that I’ve featured and utilized in my very own school rooms over time.
Old Maps Online is a web-based map which you can browse and search to seek out historic maps to view on-line, to obtain, and to print. You can search the map by coming into a location or you may simply pan and zoom all over the world to seek out historic maps. In the video embedded under I reveal the right way to use Old Maps Online.
The Library of Congress housed tons of of 1000’s of maps overlaying an enormous array of matters from maps utilized by hearth insurance coverage corporations to inhabitants density to maps of army battles and campaigns. The LOC’s assortment of maps of army battles and campaigns incorporates greater than 4,000 maps which are free to view, obtain, and reuse. The overwhelming majority of the maps are from the 18th and nineteenth centuries though there are about 600 maps overlaying World War I and II.
In this video I present a brief overview of the 2 locations on the Library of Congress’s web site that I like to recommend college students search and browse to seek out pictures and maps that they’ll use and reuse.
Map-based Lesson Plans
DocsTeach is certainly one of my go-to sources for historical past lecturers. DocsTeach supplies 1000’s of major sources that lecturers can use to construct on-line and in-person historical past classes for center college and highschool college students. Some of the pre-made lesson actions hosted on DocsTeach are based mostly on maps. Some of these map-based classes are:
Flickr’s The Commons is a good place to seek out every kind of attention-grabbing historic images from museums and libraries everywhere in the world. The British Library’s King’s Topographical Collection hosted on The Commons incorporates greater than 17,000 historic maps and pictures associated to maps. The King’s Topographical Collection is comprised of maps and drawings produced between 1500 and 1824. You can flick thru, view, and obtain all the maps and drawings within the assortment. Unfortunately, the flexibility to look throughout the assortment on Flickr is restricted to simply utilizing “management+F” to seek for phrases on the displayed web page. When you do discover one thing you want, click on the obtain button on the picture to put it aside in decision of your selection.
topoView
topoView is an efficient place to seek out historic maps which you can import into Google Earth. topoView is a USGS web site that gives historic maps relationship again to 1880. You can obtain the maps in number of file codecs together with JPG and KMZ. In the next video I reveal the right way to discover and obtain historic maps on the topoView web site.
Applications for Education One of my favourite makes use of of Google Earth in historical past lessons is overlaying historic maps on present map views. Doing that may present college students with context for locations they examine in historical past classes. Doing that additionally supplies a great way to see how locations change over time. Watch the video under to see how that is achieved.
