Seven lessons investigate the concepts of understanding and reading maps. The Teacher Guide describes each lesson and provides a list of student handouts that can be downloaded and reproduced. A wonderful site for lesson plans, this site is a must view for teachers. Additional resources for the busy teachers are also available. The site also provides links to history departments world-wide that are on the Web.
Users can read information about the daily life of ancient cultures.
Many links lead to outside related sites and online activities. The site includes links to other history pages by the same author. An excellent site for middle school or high school social studies teachers. Hotlinks to United States and foreign newspapers are listed. This site has a clickable map.