Making and Interpreting Topographic Maps Kit

Developed by SEPUP

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS / PROCESSES

• Students use appropriate tools to analyze and interpret data.
  
• Topographic maps provide information about landforms.
  
• Topographic maps can be used to help determine an areas past and ongoing geologic processes and its suitability for various uses.

This activity provides students with a basic understanding of topographic maps and how to interpret them.

Students conduct a hands-on investigation using the LAB-AIDS Topographic Model to construct contour lines and create a topographic map of an area.

The activity illustrates the relationship between the contour lines on a topographic map and the actual shape of the land. This LAB-AIDS ® kit is designed for use with six groups of four, or at most five, students.

Contents List

• 1 Teachers Manual with MSDS
• 28 Student Worksheets and Guides
• 6 landforms models
• 6 transparent plastic lids
• 6 dry erase markers
• 1 15-mL drop-controlled bottle blue food coloring
• 1 Transparency 1: Street Map of Boomtown
• 1 Transparency 2: Topographic Map of Boomtown