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Topographic Maps 12/1
Topographic Maps 12/1

Today we:

Practice reading a topographic map

Add detail to our hypotheses about what happened

Introducing topographic maps

What colors are the higher elevation places?

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What are the highest places on this map?

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1. Missing town clues

Take turns driving the ipad

Look at each clue with your partner

Talk through your answers to the questions with your partner

Take turns adding clues to a list on your whiteboard

Location of the missing town of Moncton shown by the red map pin

Is the missing town (red map pin) mostly north, south, east or west of Seattle?

Is Seattle or the missing town closer to the Salish Sea?

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Area around Moncton: 1913

What is the elevation (brown numbers) near Moncton?

What is the elevation near the new dam site (brown numbers - these are kind of hard to read)?

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Map of the same area in 2021

Can you find features that where on the last map?

What changes do you notice?

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Pictures of dams

What do these dams have in common?

What are some reasons people build dams?

Dams

Dams

Dam at Cedar Falls. construction started in 1911

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Finish adding to you list of clues and be ready to share with the class

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