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Discover the World: Locating Places

This program helps students to hone their map skills. Using colorful graphics and animation, students will come to understand the uses of map grids and the compass rose. In addition, viewers will learn how to locate any location on earth by using longitude, latitude, coordinates, degrees, minutes, seconds, and time zones. Students will be able locate any place on earth when Seymour Terrain, world class adventurer, shows them how. This program details the uses of map grids, compass rose, longitude, latitude, coordinates, degrees, minutes, seconds, and time zones. Familiarizes students with equal area, polar, and mercator projection maps. Hands-on activity sheets provide reinforcement of each of the topics covered.