Land Mapping, Surveying, and Measurement Lesson Plans

Learners explore the history of surveying systems. After discussing various systems, students complete worksheets and perform surveys. Using their geometric skills, they physically stake out plots and use protractors to find correct angles. Learners discuss problems that may have occurred when surveying land in the 1800s.

Learners discuss the importance of land ownership and the purpose of land surveying in the eighteenth century. They interpret a transcript of an eigthteenth-century land survey. They survey and area of land. They create a written or visual description of the land they surveyed.

Students examine biological information about George Washington focusing on his love of surveying. They explore cartography and field of surveying. They write a letter and make a map of Virginia.

Young scholars investigate surveys as it relates to chains and links. In this math lesson, students relate math to history and surveys done above, below and on the earths' surface. They review vocabulary pertaining to this lesson before moving on.

Students explore land use.  In this land lesson plan, students examine the use of land and land records.  They create a diagram of a specified piece of land and determine the area of the land.  Students discuss their findings.

Students explore the concept of drafting. In this drafting lesson, students complete a project involving land surveying. Students refer to survey maps as they use the law of cosines and AutoCAD to construct drawings of the land survey. Students present their results to an "engineering firm" (the teacher) and to their class.

Students investigate the human impact on coastal land. In this coastal surveys lesson plan, students choose a coastal area and complete a survey sheet about the area. They choose a topic about a sea side village called Dunwich to prepare a fieldwork plan. They draw a map and follow directions to complete the map of the area. They also draw a proportional flow map for air passenger movements given data and answer 3 questions.

Students examine food waste and the concept of recycling. In this recycling lesson, students learn what composting is, conduct a lunchroom survey, and tabulate the results. They study vocabulary related to composting and share the results of the food-waste survey.

Students explore the concept of composting. In this environmental lesson, students examine the food waste in their school's cafeteria and recognize composting as a way to care for the planet as they share the results a food waste survey they conduct.

The students take a harbor cruise, photograph, and draw shore line features attending to evidence of human impact/consequences, and its cost on marine/land animal habitats vegetation, weather patterns, signs of erosion, and the water quality of the city's greatest natural resource the Boston Harbor and its associated rivers.