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Investigation Images
Search for Your Community
http://www.terraserver.com/providers/cities_revealed_examples.asp
Las Vegas 1972
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/LasVegas/LasVegas
Las Vegas 1992
http://edc.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/LasVegas/LasVegas
Resource Images
pg5_LasVegas1972.jpg
pg8_LasVegas1992.jpg
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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