Tuesday, March 31, 2015

3/31/2015: Anniversary of the First Official Map of the United States

Do you study geography with your class?  You may be interested to know that the first official map of the United States was published on March 31, 1784 by Abel Buell, a silversmith turned mapmaker. Buell published his map in the Connecticut Journal.  March 31 1784 was seven months after the Treaty of Paris had ended the American Revolutionary War.  Buell himself claimed that this map was “the first ever compiled, engraved, and finished by one man, and an American.”

My book original book Directions - First Grade Level I Reader is great for social studies or geography unit! This book is also included in First Grade Leveled Books: Level I – Set 1.  
My first grade Level C reader “A Map and a Globe” is also dedicated to geography.  it can be found in Social Studies Topics – Levels C – E. For higher grade level, the story “Finding the Mississippi – Using a Map and Globe” is included in my third grade level N – Set 1


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