With the end of the Second World War in 1945, colonial troops who had fought in the conflict returned home and joined movements demanding independence from European empires. This process of decolonization saw increasing ...

As long as people have existed, maps have served an important purpose as a teaching tool, helping us organize knowledge and understand our world. In this six-lesson cartography unit, students view and engage with maps from ...

Students are challenged to look at maps from an artistic perspective by investigating several examples that go outside the standard geographical use of a map. This lesson starts with investigating symbols, to thinking about ...

In this cross-curricular Social Studies and English Language Arts unit, immigrant and refugee students will explore maps of their homelands from the AGSL Digital Collections. Students can use pre-selected maps or search ...