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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students identifying their location in the world beginning from the broad perspective of the world and narrowing to their country, state, city, neighborhood, and home. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore map making and map reading by drawing a map of the school yard with 100% accuracy. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students use a map of the classroom to strengthen their map reading skills. They work in groups and use a prepared map of the classroom to find hidden messages. Then they make their own map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students find latitude and longitude on maps and globes, locating continents, countries, and states. In this lesson they use an online map of the early American West to reinforce the concepts of latitude and longitude as part of a social studies Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students examine road maps, topographic maps, and soil maps. They discuss the reasons for using the different maps and measure the distances between locations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students learn map skills by showing the routes they travel from home to school and using that data to practice map reading and interpreting geographical information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students interact with "MapPoint" tools to view maps past and present in multiple ways. They participate in mini lessons aimed at locating certain points of interest or famous routes taken in history. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students create a travel game of one of the United States. They research a state of their choice and create a travel game using a common road map. They interpret map symbols as they calculate map mileage for their games. They create playing cards to be used for their games. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students discuss situations where map reading skills are useful/necessary. They review vocabulary terms and locate on a map Italy along with her major cities, major rivers, ocean, and capital. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students develop an understanding of maps. They explore what a map is, who uses maps, and how to use maps. Students investigate the compas rose. They create a compose rose which illustrates the cardinal directions. Students practice reading maps. Full Review »
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