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NLTLN: Analyzing Maps to Better Understand Global Current Events and History

Another great lesson plan from the New York Times Learning Network

LESSON PLAN
China’s share of foreign investment, 2005-2013 (outside of the Americas). For example, China accounted for 70 percent of all foreign investment in Sierra Leone. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/business/international/the-world-according-to-china-investment-maps.html">Related Article</a>
Analyzing Maps to Better Understand Global Current Events and History
By MICHAEL GONCHAR

In this lesson, we provide strategies to help students accurately interpret maps, and we suggest ways for using current event maps as a tool to better understand both history and what’s going on in the world today.

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