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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Our Stories With a Double Bubble Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will identify the similarities and differences between different versions of fictional stories by completing a double bubble map. Included in this lesson are teacher questions, a bubble map printable, a video of a class...
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Other

Edte.ch: Maths Maps

For Students 1st - 8th
Maths Maps is a collaborative project where participants use Google maps to choose a location within one of the cities highlighted, then create a Math problem about the site. The problems are marked on the map with various colors...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Event Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use event maps with students. They will learn how to implement event maps with literary and informational texts; measure progress with event maps; and find research to support event maps. A reproducible event...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Group Story Mapping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This intervention, which is based on Schema Theory, emphasizes linking previous knowledge structures (schemata) with reading materials. A pre-reading technique (see "My Story Map") provides a framework that directs students' attention to...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Map Your Schoolyard

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson plan introduces the concept of maps while providing a forum to practice the skill of navigating using a map.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps young scholars understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to...
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Other

Spotsylvania County Schools: Curriculum Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site features an outline of how to implement the use of curriculum maps into a school district curriculum program.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
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Tooter4 Kids: Story Maps

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site looks at how to create your very own story map.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Primary Technology Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This hands-on, inquiry-based lesson plan combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Students will have the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Tamika's Trip to the Zoo

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Tamika who went to the zoo with her father to see the polar bears. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Reading and Writing About Miss Moo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson for early elementary and special education students utlizing the book Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves and graphic organizers to identify elements in a story (title, author, setting, characters, etc.). Students participate...
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Read Works

Read Works: Learn About Maps

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the basic terminology associated with map are explained in this informational text. A question sheet is available to help students...
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Other

Map Zone: Compasses and Directions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Sharpen map skills by exploring these map pages. Learn about the compass rose, different norths, and how to use a compass.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lost in Greasy World

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children use spatial skills to put together a map that has been broken up into pieces. This activity will help them understand spatial sense and practice using a map.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Estados Unidos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Easy-to-read Spanish map of the United States with country information below. A nice site with links to the States and the rest of the world's countries as well!
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Map Key

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the purpose of a map, map symbols, and the map key or legend. Activote questions reinforce the concepts.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Cause and Effect With "A Bad Case of Stripes" Day One

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will really be writing to sources with this lesson. They will write about cause and effects in a multi-flow map and then write sentences to explain the cause and effect relationships in this story.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
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Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Happy Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The bridge from algorithms to programming can be a short one if students understand the difference between planning out a sequence and encoding that sequence into the appropriate language. This activity will help students gain experience...
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BBC

Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Symbols and Keys

For Students 1st - 4th
A guide for young learners to understand reading maps and their keys.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...

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