Big Oxford Atlas 2 is designed to support the teaching of more formal map-reading skills to Middle Primary and Upper Primary students. The large flip-chart format allows for group and whole-class teaching, and each page provides teachers with targeted questions linked to Oxford Atlas Project 2.

• 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.

• Thematic maps link explicitly to numeracy, literacy, geography, history, science, and civics and citzenship.
• Explore natural, human and global issues using thematic maps.
• Interactive physical and political maps allow you to explore key features at a deeper level.
• Laminted flip-chart pages for easy write-on/wipe-off.

Contents

• The Equator, hemispheres & tropics
• The sun & direction
• Maps at different scales
• Drawing information from maps
• Australia's early migrants
• Exploration & language
• Exploration of the western interior
• Trading with the world
• Australia's political system
• Refugees
• Safe drinking water & life expectancy
• Australia's endangered species
• Pollution
• World maps: natural & human
• Flags of the world

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)
Classroom Map (324 kb)
Directing traffic (267 kb)
Places in an atlas (296 kb)
Interpreting graphs (287 kb)
Sun and earth (312 kb)
Oceans (401 kb)
Climate graphs (302 kb)
Weather and the water cycle (292 kb)
Earthquakes (282 kb)
Worst natural disaster (282 kb)
Dorothy and the tornado (300 kb)
Animals adapting environment (371 kb)
Indigenous peoples (304 kb)
World languages (280 kb)
Numbers in Australian Government (311 kb)
How is it made (276 kb)
Threatened animals (312 kb)
Water (282 kb)
Health pictographs (287 kb)
Refugees (457 kb)
Renewable energy (282 kb)
Thinking about pollution (350 kb)
World Heritage sites (292 kb)
Reading maps (263 kb)

• Oxford Atlas Project 2 Student Atlas