Please contact Melissa Gentry if you would like to coordinate lessons for the classroom with any map or atlas resources from the GRMC.  Maps and atlases may be borrowed from the collection, or students may work with the materials in the GRMC.  Maps and atlases can be used for many lessons covering a variety of disciplines:

• Geography students learning to read topographic maps.
• Architecture students studying historic maps of Muncie to determine what buildings would exist following an imaginary gas explosion.
• Center for International Programs staff reviewing maps of Panama and Costa Rica for upcoming study-abroad program.
• History students using physical maps of the United States to map out the best route for the Underground Railroad, and then comparing to actual Underground Railroad route maps.
• Political Science students searching world topographic maps and other resources to determine the location of secret cities of the former Soviet Union.
• Historic Preservation students studying maps and nautical charts of Galveston, Texas, for a class project.
• Professor teaching about different map projections using various maps.
• Art students reviewing the location of great works using the Atlas of Art.
• Education students writing a paper using Growing Up in America: An Atlas of Youth in the USA as a resource.
• Speech students borrowing a map of the Sudan for a speech on the Darfur tragedy and Titanic Reference Map for a speech about the ship's voyage.
• Genealogists using historic maps to determine the location of the Ohio and Indiana state line.
• English-literature students borrowing the map Shakespeare's Britain or Literary Map of Indiana or Atlas of World Cultures: a Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature.
• History student using the U.S. Army Atlas of the European Theater in World War II and a map of the Normandy invasion for a class project.
• Korean War veteran using the world topographic map set to find the location of an island he visited during the war.
• Natural Resources students borrowing maps of biomes, wetlands, flood plain maps, soil maps, and One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment.
• A sports enthusiast borrows the Baseball Travel Map and USA Today Golf Atlas for an upcoming vacation.
• Religious Studies students writing a paper about Jacob using historic maps and atlases of the Bible lands.
• Foreign language students borrowing the many atlases available in different languages.

The following article from the GRMC Blog identifies more examples of how to use maps and atlases in many different disciplines and areas of study.