One tool that Dora used for exploration was the character Map. The show uses anthropomorphism to depict Map as an interactive character. It appears in every episode as Dora must read it to reach her ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do on a day-to-day basis. (This is one of the ...

Researchers have found that children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of just four! The study involved 175 two to five-year-olds. It reveals that four-year-olds ...

Solvang Library invites local adventurers to explore the world of geologic map reading at a free workshop, Adventures in Geology: Map Reading and the Story of the Dibblee Maps, on Thursday, July 25.

To witness a spectacular solar eclipse you need to be in the right place at the right time. Here's some guidance on how to interpret solar eclipse maps. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. For ...