ALL ABOUT MAPS AND MAPMAKING

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CIA-RDP78-05927A000100130024-9
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December 9, 2016
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February 16, 2000
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Approved For Re ase 2000/08/3 ?:m A-RDP78-0M7A000100130024-9 ALL ABOUT MAPS AND MAPMAKING by Susan Marsh For everyone who has ever wondered how to make a map, Susan Marsh explains road maps, quad maps, relief maps, charts for pilots and seamen, maps for buried mineral treasure, even the rrewest.maps of the moon. "The author has presented her subject in a most fascinating way which excites the curiosity. . . Susan Marsh is a gifted and understanding writer. The book is absorbing and an important contribution to the literature available today for grade school readers." -- Surveying and Mapping "Students will want to read this book as they would a story. Information is presented with clarity and taste in a manner that is rare in the production of material for elementary children." -- Grade Teacher "I am delighted with Susan Marsh's ALL ABOUT MAPS AND MAPMAKING. Written for the curious and adventurous of any age, but primarily for boys and girls of intermediate grades and junior high, it is informal in style and accurate in contents." -- Dr. Prudence Bostwick, Past President, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Illustrated throughout with two-color maps and photographs; indexed; 146 pages. $ Gibraltar Library Binding, net. Approved For Release 2000/08/30 : CIA-RDP78-05927A000100130024-9 Approved For Retse 2000/08/30 CIA-RDP78-0597A000100130024-9 TEACHING ABOUT Susan MarshMAPS GRADE BY GRADE Maps can do for social studies what paperback books have done for literature. In addition to the indispensable, made- for-schools maps, teachers need to introduce more gather- around-the-table and hand-held maps. Alert teachers are turning to the use of such maps as source material, and these books will be an invaluable guide to an inexperienced teacher, a valuable reference for the experienced. ? You can teach directly from these books. Chapter by chapter, book by book, you can develop map reading skills for grades 1 through 6. ? Large, detailed black and white photographs of all kinds of maps-shaded relief, topographic, nautical, aeronau- tical-can be projected with an opaque projector. ? Tells you where and how to get maps, with prices. Some are free, almost all are inexpensive, and many are already part of the school's map and globe library. ? Each book has a comprehensive index to all books, so you can find the chapter and map you need for special interests. Over 1,000 entries in the index. ? Includes dozens of original outdoor and indoor activities as ways of enlivening map studies. IMAGINATIVE, AUTHORITATIVE AND ADAPTABLE SERIES OF MAP BOOKS Macmillan Distrib. Ctr. TEACH Riverside, New Jersey 23 0807S Yes ? Over twenty chapters in each book. Each chapter can be used independently, will adapt to any age level, though planned with the typical curriculum for each grade. Some chapters are: TP9-28 Book 1-A Map As Pretty As a Picture, Playing Sailboat with a Real Nautical Chart, Shadows TP9-29 Book 2-Firemen Use Maps, Islands, Dinosaurs, Inexpensive Aerial Photographs of Your School Area, Birds Find Their Way TP9-30 Book 3-Maps for Local Transportation by Land, Air, Water, Phoning Long Distance TP9-31 Book 4-Maps Save Lives, Water in the Home State, Road Maps, Solid Water is Ice TP9-32 Book 5-People Live in Cities, Play in National Parks, Aeronautical Charts, Moon Maps TP9-33 Book 6-The Americas, Oceanography, Does the Compass Point to the Magnetic Pole? Projections Six books, paperbound, 81/2" x 11" $2.25 each book ORATION 06820 ' I am interested in Teaching About Maps series. Please send me the following: Quantity Quantity TP9-28, book 1, $2.25 TP9-31, book 4, $2.25 TP9-29, book 2, $2.25 TP9-32, book 5, $2.25 TP9-30, book 3, $2.25 _ TP9-33, book 6, $2.25 All items postpaid ^ Bill me ^ Payment enclosed (Sorry, no charge orders for less than $4.50) NAME DATE ADDRESS 000/08/30: CIA-RDP78-059a7A000100130024.>