Education Blog

Take a dive into the latest National Geographic MapMaker Guided Lessons for grades 6-8.

Earth Science Week is from Oct. 12-18 and focused on energy resources. Come explore a map of power plants.

New features and activities for National Geographic MapMaker  to help your students explore and understand the world. Their free digital atlas!

Teaching middle school Earth Science or Geography? Then take a look at this new collection of standards-based activities that provide an interactive and engaging way for your students to learn about the world.

Now it is easier than ever to find a classroom activity that incorporates digital maps. Introducing the Classroom activities gallery.

Do you want to create custom elevation profiles for your fieldwork area or any other location in the world? Or guide your students to see exactly the elevation profile that you want them to see? Then the new Elevation profile functionality in Sketch tools is for you!

The ArcGIS Tutorials team has created a series of modules that when completed, provide a great introduction to understanding the functionality of the National Geographic MapMaker.

The November 2024 update to MapMaker is focused on workflows around information in the map. You can add pop-ups to sketches, create sketches from search results, see data in 3D without shadows by default, used an improved Map layers panel, and even close Map layers and keep working with an open table. And yes, of course we’ve added some new maps and layers that are ready for your classroom.

MapMaker has large catalogue of carefully curated maps and data for schools that supports a wide range of curriculum areas. This short blog will highlight three new additions to the collection that have an Oceans theme or connection:

Read on for Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Currents in Motion and Sea Floor Crustal Age.