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Las Vegas 1972
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/LasVegas/LasVegas
Las Vegas 1992
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/LasVegas/LasVegas
Literature
Connections
A Bird's Eye View by
Marcia Freeman
As the Crow Flies by Gail Hartman
Seeing the Earth from Space by Patricia Lauber
My Place in Space by Robin and Sally Hirst
Zoom by Banyai
Me on the Map by Joan
Sweeney, Illustrated by Annette Cable (Crown Publishers,
Inc., New York, 1996) ISBN 0-517-70095-6
- This picture book opens
with a child in her bedroom. A map of the bedroom is
shown with her on the bed. The book maps the child from
her bedroom to her town, in her town, in her state, in
her country, and in the world.
Looking Down by Steve
Jenkins, (Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, NY, 1995) ISBN
0-395-72665-4
- This book is
double-page-spread cut-paper collages that illustrate
traveling from Earth into space to look at the Earth. The
book begins in space and then moves closer and closer to
the Earth. Each picture shows more details of the
Earth.
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Sarah
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