Teaching with and through Maps

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.04.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Background Knowledge and Content
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Notes

Topographical Trilateration and Triangulation

Kristina Kirby

Published September 2025

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Notes

1“William C. Overfelt High School 2023-24 School Accountability Report Card (Published During the 2024-2025 School Year),” East Side Union High School District, https://d16k74nzx9emoe.cloudfront.net/57a7d3c8-6119-411a-be87-326081fc3226.pdf.

2“English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment Detailed Test Results for: School: William C. Overfelt High,” California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, https://d16k74nzx9emoe.cloudfront.net/57a7d3c8-6119-411a-be87-326081fc3226.pdf.

3Alvarez et al, “Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Impact Study,” WestEd, June 2012, https://www.qtel.wested.org/qtel-impact-study.

4 Johnpaul Lapid, Transforming English Learner Education in Hawaii: Pauoa Elementary’s Success Story (WestEd, 2025).

5Elise W. Hopman and Maryellen C. MacDonald, “Production Practice During Language Learning Improves Comprehension,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 29, no. 6, (2018), 961.

6 Jennifer Blitz, Quality Teaching for English Learners Leadership in English Learner Education, (workshop, WestEd, Santa Cruz, CA, July 2025).

7“Reading in four voices,” ESOL online, January 19, 2018, https://esolonline.tki.org.nz/ESOL-Online/Planning-for-my-students-needs/Resources-for-planning/ESOL-teaching-strategies/Reading/Reading-in-four-voices.

8 Monique Evans, Quality Teaching for English Learners Building the Base Institute: Secondary Mathematics, (workshop, WestEd, Andrew Hill High School, San Jose, CA, August 2024-May 2025).

9 Ibid.

10 The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, “Jigsaw,” ABLConnect. https://ablconnect.harvard.edu/jigsaw-research.

11 Ibid.

12 Rachel Hewitt, Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (London: Granta Books, 2010), 115.

13 Oyndrila Sarkar, “The Great trigonometrical Survey: Histories of Mapping 1790-1850,” The Indian Journal of Spatial Science 3, no. 1 (2012): Article 4.

14 University of Michigan Library, “The Great Trigonometrical Survey,” in Maps and Map-making in India (online exhibit), accessed July 31, 2025, https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/india-maps/survey/great-trigonometrical-survey.

15 Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM), “Surveying Methods,” in Fundamentals of Mapping (ICSM), accessed July 31, 2025, https://www.icsm.gov.au/education/fundamentals-mapping/surveying-mapping/surveying-methods.

16 Adam Goetsch, “The Evolution of GPS,” Illumin, Communication Issue I, Volume VII, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, published May 2, 2005, https://illumin.usc.edu/the-evolution-of-gps.

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