• Unit Overview
  • Overview
  • Guiding Question
  • Grade Level/Audience
  • Unit Concepts
  • Standards
  • Education and the Environment Initiative
  • Tips for Managing the Unit
  • Unit Assessment
  • Materials Needed
  • Background Information
• Unit Activities
  • Unit Activities
  • Activity 1: Getting to Know Salmon and Steelhead
  • Activity 2: The Incredible Journey
  • Activity 3: Community Art Project
  • Activity 4: Community Survey
  • Activity 5: Salmon and Steelhead Creek Walk
  • Activity 6: Defining Our Watershed
  • Activity 7: Watershed Web Search
  • Activity 8: Mapping Our Community
  • Activity 9: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search
  • Activity 10: Designing for Salmon and Steelhead
  • Activity 11: Creek Monitoring
  • Activity 12: Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project
  • Activity 13: Community Celebration
• Participant Activities
  • Participant Activities
  • Watershed Web Search
  • Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search
• Materials List
• Resources
  • Resources
  • Information about Salmon and Steelhead
  • Watersheds
  • Aerial Photographs and Mapping
  • Resource Agencies and Organizations
  • Restoration Projects
  • Monitoring
  • Art Projects
  • Surveys and Community Mapping
  • Other Curricula
  • Stories and Music
  • Raising Salmon and Steelhead
  • Videos
  • Scientific Supply Companies
  • Recipes
• Acknowledgements
  • Acknowledgements
  • Adopt-A-Watershed
  • California 4-H Youth Development Program

Aerial Photographs and Mapping

Aerial Photographs

• Photo Finder - Find and order aerial photos from the USGS.
  
• Search for and view aerial photos or other maps.

Dynamic Digital Mapping

• The Dynamic Digital Map Project

Topographic Maps, Sources

• Topozone offers interactive topographic maps of the entire United States. You can search for a map and print it for free.
  
• The USGS website sells 1:24,000-scale maps of the United States. You can find and order the map you need online.

Topographic Maps, How to Read

• “Contour Maps with Dogstails” - In this lesson plan from National Geographic participants slice lumps of clay to learn how to read topographic maps.
  
• “How to Read a Topographic Map” - This set of lesson plans from the United States Geological Survey uses sample maps to help participants learn about topographic maps.
  
• “Potato Mountain: Reading/Understanding Topographic Maps” - Participants map a carved potato to practice with topographic maps in this lesson plan from Penn State Sustainable Forest program.