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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students become familiar with and able to read city and state maps, plot a route on a state map, and use scale to determine locations one-half and one mile away from the school. They construct a map of their own. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students listen to the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and participate in various map skill activities. They manipulate magnetic tortoises and hares on metal cookie sheets to practice direction, and construct racing tortoises out of paper. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students recognize a map's use while studying the physical shape of Virginia and the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students describe the location, size, and shape of Virginia, along with the areas of land and water on a US map and globe. They use directional and positional words to describe locations on the map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students complete classroom activities to improve basic map skills. They recognize symbols and models used to represent features of the environment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine basic map information and utilize basic map skills. They identify and compare different types of projections. They measure distance using map scales. They find contour interval using index contours on a topographic map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students demonstrate basic map skills. They each bury a bag of chocolate coins, create a map with directions to find their "treasure," and follow another student's directions to locate a bag of coins. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students evaluate maps using the TODALSIGs basic map analysis system-see Map Elements worksheet. They create a map of Alaska using TODALSIGs. Students brainstorm what elements maps should have. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students use map skills to identify map elements, cardinal directions and identifying locations. They locate the seven continents and seven oceans on maps and globes. They research a continent and design a slide for a presentation using the information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students explore map skills. They discuss the map vocabulary and use directions to find a location on a map. Students discuss and use the components of a map to answer a variety of questions. They use the map and directions to find an item hidden in the classroom. Full Review »
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