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Corn Maze Geography: Teaching Geography Using Corn Mazes
URL: http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/cornmazegeography.html

Description:
This document features "lessons for teaching geography through the concept of corn mazes," which are "paths cut or plowed in a field of corn (maize) so that the paths form a pattern when viewed from overhead." Lesson topics include navigation, maps, global positioning systems (GPS), aerial photographs, and other geography concepts. From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Rocky Mountain Mapping Center.

Author:
Kerski, Joseph

Publisher:
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Rocky Mountain Mapping Center

Extra Keywords
cartography

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Geography -- Study and teaching
Labyrinths
Map reading

LII Database Information:
Record 632 created by Jennifer English on 03/28/2005
Last modification on 02/05/2008
Published: 03/28/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/632