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This video shows the different types of maps and how each are useful in their own way.

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This game will help reinforce to students the importance of understanding the legend of the map.

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum

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This video reinforces the definition of absolute location and fully explains how to find absolute locations.

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This interactive website will allow students to explore the latitude and longitude of particular locations. They can look up their school, home, etc. and find their latitude and longitude.

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What is Latitude and Longitude?

Just like every actual house has its address (which includes the number, the name of the street, city, etc), every single point on the surface of earth can be specified by the latitude and longitude coordinates. Therefore, by using latitude and longitude we can specify virtually any point on earth.

The latitude has the symbol of phi, and it shows the angle between the straight line in the certain point and the equatorial plane. The latitude is specified by degrees, starting from 0° and ending up with 90° to both sides of the equator, making latitude Northern and Southern. The equator is the line with 0° latitude. The longitude has the symbol of lambda and is another angular coordinate defining the position of a point on a surface of earth. The longitude is defined as an angle pointing west or east from the Greenwich Meridian, which is taken as the Prime Meridian. The longitude can be defined maximum as 180° east from the Prime Meridian and 180° west from the Prime Meridian.

Both latitude and longitude are measured in degrees, which are in turn divided into minutes and seconds. For example, the tropical zone which is located to the south and to the north from the Equator is determined by the limits of 23°26'13.7'' S and 23°26'13.7'' N. Or. For example, the geographical coordinates of the mount Ngauruhoe in New Zealand, famous with its being the filming area for the Lord of the Rings movie, has the geographic coordinates of 39°09'24.6''S 175°37'55.8''E.

About Lat Long

Latlong.net is an online geographic tool that can be used to lookup latitude and longitude of a place, and get its coordinates on map. You can search for a place using a city's or town's name, as well as the name of special places, and the correct lat long coordinates will be shown at the bottom of the latitude longitude finder form. At that, the place you found will be displayed with the point marker centered on map. Also the gps coordinates will be displayed below the map.

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Lat long is a geographic tool which helps you to get latitude and longitude of a place or city and find gps coordinates on map, convert lat long, gps, dms and utm.

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This interactive game would teach the students how to combine latitude and longitude to find a particular location.

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Can you find the hidden treasures? Practice map skills by locating gold coins using x and y axis coordinates. Collect all the coins to answer the secret message and unlock the treasure chest!

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This resource is home to facts about the northeastern region states.

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U.S. STATE FACTS

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Introduction - Northeast U.S.
What do you think of when you picture the Northeast Region of the United States? Perhaps it is the major cities like New York City, Washington DC, and Boston. You may think of the miles of beautiful beaches like those on Cape Cod (Massachusetts) or on Long Island New York. Perhaps what comes to mind are one of the amazing natural wonders like Niagara Falls in upstate New York. In fact; there is an incredible variety of people and places in this region. On this page we have listed facts about the Northeast Region of the U.S. which includes the states listed below. You will find links on this page to interesting information about each state in the Northeast geographical region which both kids and adults should find interesting and useful.

Click here for a great selection ofAmazon.com books about the Northeast.

Basic Northeast Region US State Facts

The 11 states that make up the US Northeast Region are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Six of the states in this region are collectively called the "New England States". They are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The Northeast states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania are often referred to as the Middle Atlantic States.

Washington D.C., which is not a US state, is also considered part of the Northeast region.

The climate of the Northeast varies by season. Winters are often extremely cold; especially in the northern most states such as Maine. The regions summers are generally warm and humid.

Northeast Region Points of Interest

New York City - This city is one of the main tourist destinations in the world with way to many attractions to list here.

The Freedom Trail - A walking trail in Boston Massachusetts with 16 important historic sites including Paul Reveres House and Boston Common.

Mark Twain House - Located in Hartford Connecticut this was the home of the famous American author from 1874 to 1891.

Gettysburg Battlefield - Located in Gettysburg Pennsylvania this was the sight of the biggest battle of the American Civil War.

Interesting Northeast Region US State Facts

All 11 states in this region were part of original thirteen British colonies before the US won it's independence in the American Revolution. What are now Vermont and Maine were actually part of other colonies before the Revolution.

The smallest US state (Rhode Island) is located in this region.

At 6,288 feet (1,917 meters) the peak of Mount Washington in New Hampshire is the highest point in the Northeast.

There is an amazing amount of National Historic Landmarks in this region of the US. In fact approximately half of these US landmarks are found in this region.

New York City, which is located in the Northeast, has the highest population of any city in the US; its population exceeds that of most states.

The Northeast states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island are the only US states where the number of Catholics is more than the number of Protestants and other Christian religions. This is due to the huge number of Catholic immigrants arriving from such predominantly Catholic European countries as Ireland and Italy in the late 1800s.

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NORTHEAST U.S.- over 20 interesting key facts

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U.S. STATE FACTS What do you think of when you picture the Northeast Region of the United States? Perhaps it is the major cities like New York City, Washington DC, and Boston. You may think of the miles of beautiful beaches like those on Cape Cod (Massachusetts) or on Long Island New York.

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This video shows the 12 states that make up the Southeastern region, and facts and information about it.

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This resource holds information about the midwest region and contains videos.

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Midwest, also called Middle West or North Central States, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachians and Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. The Midwest, as defined by the federal government, comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Actually composed of two regions, the Northwest Territory, or the Old Northwest, and the Great Plains, the Midwest has become more an idea than a region: an area of immense diversity but somehow consciously representative of a national average.

The Northwest Territory entered the United States in 1783 at the conclusion of the American Revolution and was organized under a series of ordinances that set the precedent for the admission of future territories into the Union. The Great Plains entered the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The Plains were to develop primarily agriculturally, but the Northwest Territory, blessed with both fertile soil and valuable natural resources (coal, oil, iron ore, and limestone), would develop both industrially and agriculturally.

United States: The Midwest

Emerging transportation arteries, first canals and then railroads, linked the Midwest with Eastern markets and firmly established it as part of the industrially expanding North, thus concluding a process begun in 1787 when slavery was outlawed in the Northwest Territory. The region was not without its Southern sympathizers, however, as a number of its settlers, particularly in the Ohio River valley, had migrated from the South, but the Midwest was to give to the brewing sectional crisis not only a new political party (the Republicans, launched in Wisconsin and Michigan) that was devoted to the nonextension of slavery but also two of the Union's staunchest defenders- Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.

After the American Civil War, the growth experienced by the Midwest was dramatic. Transportation, immigration, and industrialization all played a part. By 1890 Chicago, not even 60 years old, had become the second largest city in the country, and the Midwest accounted for 29 percent of the country's manufacturing employment and nearly one-third of its value added by manufacture. The Great Plains, however, developed more slowly. Westward migration tended to skip the Plains for the Pacific Coast, and it was not until the late 1800s, when most American Indians had been subjugated, barbed-wire fencing had been introduced, and railroads had penetrated the interior, that the Plains experienced rapid settlement by farmers, ranchers, and tradesmen.

The influence of the Midwest on national life has been significant. In the 1870s it was the main area of activity of the Granger movement and a hotbed of labour agitation. It provided some of the most prominent figures of the Progressive movement (including Robert M. La Follette) and was home for many of America's most famous industrial giants. It was an innovator in architecture and retailing, a potent force in the settlement-house movement, a centre of temperance activity, and an inspiration to a new school of naturalistic writers such as Hamlin Garland.

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Unique in American life, the Midwest has fused the raw and expansive muscle of an urban industrial establishment with the sturdy conservatism of a rural hinterland. But like its neighbours to the northeast, the Midwest's growth rate has lagged behind that of the country as a whole.

Despite regional economic shifts adverse to the Midwest, the region has continued to be the most important economic region in the country, leading all other sections in value added by manufacture and in total value of farm marketings.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Augustyn.

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Midwest | History, States, Map, Culture, & Facts

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Midwest, also called Middle West or North Central States, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachians and Rocky Mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. The Midwest, as defined by the federal government, comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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This article has really great fun facts about the southwest and little statistics that you wouldn’t really read about. It also shows a map to locate the region.

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The distinctive landscapes of the Southwest Region provide habitat for a wide variety of remarkable native plant and animal species, including 150 species that are protected under the Endangered Species Act. In Arizona, environments range from lowland deserts to scenic mountain peaks. New Mexico's vistas intertwine with ancient cultural landscapes accommodating many species sacred to Native Americans.

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This video goes into depth of the West region and explores the states that make up the region. This video points out landforms or things that student would recognize as being from the state(Idaho=Potato).

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This video explains the flint hills by showing several different pictures from several different spots where the flint hills is. It also states how much land it covers and the different counties it covers.

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In this article it goes into depth on the Kansas river and what the backstory of it is. It also talks about what the future looks like for the river and what we can do to preserve it.

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Kansas River: Midwestern Secret

It can get downright hot in The Sunflower State. Fortunately, there's more than 170 miles of cool Kansas River flowing through the heartland to help take summer's edge off.

The Kansas River, or "Kaw" as it's affectionately known, is its namesake state's most popular river for canoeing, kayaking, rowing, and fishing. Unlike many of its midwestern neighbors, the river has not been over-engineered with dams and navigation control structures, rendering it relatively free-flowing. As a result, hundreds of acres of sandbars and islands are sprinkled among meandering riverbends, providing animal habitat and opportunities for boaters to pull ashore to camp and get close to nature on what may be the top recreational treasure in the state.

As the largest tributary of the Missouri River, the Kansas is considered one of the world's longest prairie rivers, beginning at Junction City, KS, and flowing to Kansas City. Along the way it serves as a critical drinking water supply for more than 600,000 people in addition to being used for irrigation, municipal wastewater and industrial discharges, cooling water for three coal-fired power plants, and a source of commercial sand and gravel.

But the Kaw has an undeniable fun side too. The river is dotted with more than 20 public access points and the U.S. Department of the Interior has declared the Kansas River Water Trail one of its Top 101 Conservation Projects. Canoeing and kayaking revenue is calculated at about $3.7 million per year in Kansas.

The University of Kansas rowing team uses the pool above the Bowersock Dam - the largest obstruction on the river - for training, and the Kansas City Boat Club regularly rows on the final reach of the river, near the confluence. The river and its tributaries are also home to fourteen threatened or endangered fish species.

The Backstory

The Kansas River is no stranger to American Rivers' Most Endangered Rivers® list, having been included five times since 1995. Some progress has been made since the most recent in 2012, although the Kaw still faces many threats. The most intense among them are impacts from in-river sand and gravel dredging used to make concrete. Dredging widens and deepens the river channel, lowering the water level of the river and the water table.

Dwindling access to water is a major threat to animals, humans, plants, and a significant agriculture industry in Kansas, especially when the looming concern of climate change is factored in. Scientific studies show that dredging a prairie river like the Kaw is particularly harmful since when sand is removed, the river attempts to fill the holes by carving away soil from the riverbanks. That erosion damages valuable farmland and wildlife habitat, to say nothing of the taxpayer-funded infrastructure like flood control structures, bridges, roads, and intake pipes for public water supplies.

The Corps of Engineers granted five-year permits for dredging operations at 10 locations along the Kansas River in 2007. But those permits to extract sand and gravel from the river stipulate that they would be terminated in any five-mile reach of the river where the average riverbed elevation dropped more than 2 feet. At least three of those permits have since been terminated, and a 2014 environmental review prompted the Corps to require a full Environmental Impact Study (EIS) before the remaining dredging permits on the Kansas River will be reauthorized.

The EIS is expected to be published in late 2016. The current permits, originally scheduled to expire Dec. 31, 2012, have been extended through the process.

The Future

The time has come to end the harmful practice of dredging in the Kaw and move on to addressing other issues. The river, for example, also drains more than 53,000 square miles of prime commercial farmland, and suffers greatly from fertilizer and animal waste pollution.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should complete a new Environmental Impact Study on dredging, deny all new permit and tonnage requests, and end dredging on the Kansas River by 2017.

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It can get downright hot in The Sunflower State. Fortunately, there's more than 170 miles of cool Kansas River flowing through the heartland to help take summer's edge off. The Kansas River, or "Kaw" as it's affectionately known, is its namesake state's most popular river for canoeing, kayaking, rowing, and fishing.

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This resource is really useful and gives us a map that shows the regions and shows how the smoky hills are formed. It is really useful because it talks about what the rocks are made of and what the weather conditions did to form them.

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The eastern sandstone range, called the Smoky Hills likely due to the early morning haze that often gathers in the valleys, lends its name to the whole region. Hills there consist mainly of the Dakota Formation and underlying sandstone of the Kiowa Formation.

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In this article it talks about where the ozark plateau is located and how it was formed. It also shows the exact amount of miles in Kansas that the Ozark plateau covers.

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Much of the soil in the Ozark Plateau is rocky and thin, meaning only a thin layer covers solid rock below. Combined with steep slopes, that makes most of the region unsuitable for farming. Cropland is restricted to the valley floors of Shoal Creek and Spring River.

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In this resource it talks about the climate and what it does to affect crops and wildlife. It also provides a map to show students where exactly it is located in Kansas.

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The Glaciated Region occupies the northeastern corner of Kansas and is roughly bordered by the Kansas River on the south and the Big Blue on the west. Geologists named the area based on a theory that two glaciers once covered the landscape and shaped the terrain. Rocky hills and wide valleys with accompanying floodplains provide a great deal of variation throughout the region.

Soil

A fine silt called loess is characteristic of this region. Soils in the Glaciated Region are some of the richest in the state.

Vegetation

A strip of hardwood forest runs along the very eastern edge of the region. Oak and hickory, however, quickly blend into a transition zone of both forest and prairie. Dense stands of tallgrasses, mostly bluestems, dominate in the western part of the region.

Water

Some farmers play it safe and irrigate their crops from the abundant streams running across the Glaciated Region, but the area receives enough annual precipitation that many rely solely on rainfall.

Groundwater tends to be concentrated in pockets throughout the region, which means that some wells may have little flow and some quite a bit. The areas of higher flow are primarily located along the Kansas River.

Climate

The Glaciated Region usually receives 30 to 35 inches of rainfall annually. Summers can be quite hot and dry, however, and winters can be bitingly cold. The Glaciated Region is not as windy as the rest of the state, but be prepared for some gusty days in spring. This region boasts the longest growing season in Kansas-200 days on average.

Agriculture

The agriculture of the Glaciated Region is more diverse than that of any other part of Kansas. Both beef and dairy cattle graze the areas of rough terrain. Corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, barley, and alfalfa thrive on loess soil wherever the ground is level.

Also of Interest

Many Kansas country families make this area their home; the metropolis of Kansas City in the southeast corner of the region provides access both to day jobs and to potential buyers of home-raised food.

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Motivated by her experience growing up on a small farm near Wichita, Kansas, Michelle Lindsey started Homestead on the Range to supply Kansas country living enthusiasts with the innovative resources that they need to succeed and has now been keeping families informed and inspired for over five years. Michelle is the author of two country living books. She is also a serious student of history, specializing in Kansas, agriculture, and the American West. When not pursuing hobbies ranging from music to cooking to birdwatching, she can usually be found researching, writing, or living out the country dream. View all posts by hsotr

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The Glaciated Region occupies the northeastern corner of Kansas and is roughly bordered by the Kansas River on the south and the Big Blue on the west. Geologists named the area based on a theory that two glaciers once covered the landscape and shaped the terrain.