Let's Find It - All About Maps and Globes for Young Scientists

This is a book about maps and globes, how they work, and how to use them to find places on the earth, both locally and globally. The amply-illustrated text introduces students to map scales, symbols, directions and grids and provides activities for building familiarity by making and using maps to find their way. It explains how to use features like hemisphere, latitude, longitude and coordinates to find places on a globe and provides activities for doing so.