MAPS.COM - Your Homeschool Geography Resource
By Linda K. Foster

Maps.com is your one-stop-shopping place for anything map and geography related.

Founded in 1991 as Magellan Geographix, Maps.com is currently the leading e-commerce provider of mapping products and solutions to business, education and consumer markets.

Of primary interest to educators is the Map & Travel Store offering thousands of reasonably-priced quality products that will educate students and visually enhance both classroom and homeschool settings. Maps.come even has a specific Classroom Products section.

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Geography: It's Value and Use as a Unit Study
By Linda K. Foster

Find geography materials at http://www.randmcnally.com/education

The word “geography” comes from the Greek words “Ge” or “Gaea”, both meaning “Earth” and “graphein” which means “to describe” or “to write”. Geography, then is the study of the Earth and its characteristics and of the distribution of life on the earth. It has long been the subject of books extolling tales of distant lands and dreams of great treasures. The Greeks were the first known culture to explore geography as a science. Aristotle was the first to demonstrate that the world was round and Eratosthenes was the first to calculate the earth’s circumference. Romans used extensive mapping as they explored new lands and the information from these mappings allowed Ptolemy to construct atlases and to develop the concept of dividing the world into 360 degrees with latitudes and longitudes.

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