Making a Map Kit

If you will be leading students in this exercise, plan to divide your class into teams of 3-4 students each. Prepare a "map kit" for each team containing one printed copy of each of the documents listed below. (If you are working on your own, you can choose either to print out a map kit for yourself or to work with the documents on your computer.) All these documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Download them using the links under Map Kit Components, below.

• The Example Map shows the area around Lewes, Delaware, just inside the Delaware Bay entrance. (This is Map 8 of our Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Atlas of ESI maps.) Print in color if possible.
  
• The "Back-of-the-Map" Table (displayed on the back of this map in the printed atlas) shows the biological species occurring in this area, their concentrations, and the seasons of the year in which they are breeding.
  
• The Color and Symbol Key shows what the colors and symbols shown in this ESI Atlas represent. Print in color if possible.

You also may wish to include a copy of the Oil Spill Scenario (available in the next section, Conducting the Exercise) in each team's map kit, as well as the following two documents:

• General Information describing how this and other maps in the Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Atlas were created, and a summary of the important biological resources in the area covered by maps in this atlas.
  
• The Index to the Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ESI Map Atlas, showing the larger region in which this spill has occurred; the area covered by the example map is labeled as section 8.

Printing These Documents

If at all possible, use a color printer to make your copies of the example map and map key.

Each of these PDF files was created as an 11-inch-by-17-inch document. To print these files to fit 8.5-inch-by-11-inch paper, check the "Fit to Page" or "Shrink to Fit" box in the Print Dialog Box.

Ordering the Map If you'd prefer, you can use the link below to order 11-by-17 inch print copies of this map from us. Each copy costs $1.50 (minimum order $10); ask for copies of Map 8 from the Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ESI Atlas.

Get ESI Maps and GIS Data Information about ESI products that you can purchase from us, and an explanation of how to order them.

Kit Components and Information

Example Map (Map 8 of the Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ESI Atlas) (Document format: PDF, size: 340.9 K)

"Back-of-the-Map" Table (Document format: PDF, size: 8.1 K)

Color and Symbol Key (Document format: PDF, size: 124.4 K)

General Information (Document format: PDF, size: 64.2 K)

ESI Map Atlas Index - Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania (Document format: PDF, size: 80.3 K)