Big Oxford Atlas 1 engages students through fascinating and detailed geothemes and provides opportunities for them to find out more from case studies included throughout the atlas.  Students are encouraged to explore more detailed maps using advanced understandings of grid references, scale, direction and distance. Exploring the world through a wider range of geothemes and maps, students uncover basic spatial patterns that lead to early understandings of the natural and human processes that define the world we live in.

• Large format book and digital interactive maps, on CD-ROM, designed to support the teaching of map skills
• Provides teachers with support notes and questions for whole class teaching
• Spiral bound for displaying on classroom wall
• All pages laminated for write-on, wipe-off activities.

• Large poster-size format for whole class reference
• Provides links to use Oxford Atlas Project 1 for independent work
• CD-ROM includes interactive maps of Australian states and territories for the IWB

Contents

• Early year map skills
• Australia: physical & political maps
• Australian states & territories: maps
• The natural world: world physical map
• Continents: world political map
• Flags of the world

Interactive Maps and Outlines

Australia: Physical IWB (200 kb)
Australia: Political IWB (196 kb)
Map outline of Australia (224 kb)
Map outline of the Murray-Darling Basin (81 kb)
Map outline of Antarctica (65.5 kb)
Map outline of the Asia-Pacific region – political (237 kb)

Mapping Skills Resources

World population (322 kb)
Choropleth maps (378 kb)
Cities and skyscrapers (338 kb)
Exploration timelines (294 kb)
Key to understanding maps (280 kb)
Scale model (309 kb)

• Oxford Atlas Project 1