Mercator Projection: Lesson Plans, Class Activities & Background Information

Mercator Projection Lesson Plans, Class Activities & Background Information For Elementary, Middle and High School Students & Teachers

Mercator Projection Resources

Background Information

Mercator projection - Wikipedia [View Resource]
Mercator Projection - MathWorld [View Resource]
Gerardus Mercator (Flemish, 1512 – 1594) Life and Work [View Resource]
Mercator's Projection [View Resource]
Peters Projection vs. Mercator Projection [View Resource]

K-12 Lesson Plans, Activities and Science Fair Projects
Make a Mercator Projection [View Resource]
Lesson: Projections of Earth [View Resource]
Map Projections: The Grapefruit Activity [View Resource]
Lesson plan: The Real Map of Ireland - Longitude and Latitude [View Resource]
Exploring Map Projections (Gradws 4-8) [View Resource]
The right projection for the job [View Resource]
Learning about map projections [View Resource]
Map of the Mercator Projection of the World [View Resource]
Geography Grade 11 Module [View Resource]
Teacher Notes: Map Projections [View Resource]

Undergraduate Studies and Articles
The normal and transverse Mercator projections on The sphere and the ellipsoid with full derivations of all formulae [View Resource]
The ellipsoid and the Transverse Mercator projection [View Resource]
The normal and transverse Mercator projections on the sphere and the ellipsoid with full derivations of all formulae [View Resource]
Draw a conformal map (of the globe or sphere) on a rectangular grid. [View Resource]
Transverse Mercator projection via elliptic integrals [View Resource]
A comparison among the different types of conformal map projections [View Resource]
Medieval distortions: the projections of ancient maps [View Resource]

Theses and Dissertations
Videsupra an astrophysics simulator [View Resource]
Map transformations of geographic space [View Resource]
Geometric Characterization of Ikonos and Quickbird High Resolution Imagery [View Resource]