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Post Roads

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students locate the major cities in the colonies during the Revolutionary War. For this map skills lesson, students use a globe to locate cities such as Charleston and Boston using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Civil War Naval Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students apply critical thinking skills to war strategy. In this Civil War map lesson plan, students use their knowledge of latitude and longitude as well as scale to respond to questions regarding Civil War battle strategies.
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Plot Your Course

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine distance and direction on a nautical chart. In this nautical lesson, students identify obstacles and characteristics of common aid to navigation on a nautical chart.
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The Coldest Place at the Bottom of the World

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine Ernest Shackleton's journey through the Antarctic and trace Shackleton's Actual Route on a map using longitude and latitude coordinates. Students compare his intended route with his actual and determine how far off...
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Institute for Geophysics

Understanding Maps of Earth

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.
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Explore Surface Types on a Journey Around Earth

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore satellite data. In this technology cross-curriculum math and world geography lesson, students locate specific map areas using a microset of satellite data. Young scholars use technology and math skills to determine...
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Map Skills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do you need to practice map skills? Children with a range of abilities will complete a KWL chart about maps, practice important map vocabulary and then read a few pages from their textbook. They will use their vocabulary words and...
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Can You Find Me Now?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students locate points using longitude and latitude coordinates. They locate their home using longitude and latitude, explore the uses of GPS, and accurately use a GPS.
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Finding Longitude and Latitude on Pennsylvania Maps

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students draw the lines of longitude and latitude on a map. Students look at a topographical maps to see how topography relates to land use.
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Science Matters

Ring of Fire

For Teachers 6th Standards
Over a period of 35 years, earthquakes and volcanoes combined only accounted for 1.5 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in the United States. The 15th lesson in a 20-part series connects the locations of earthquakes and...
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Earth Matters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify Earth's equator, prime meridian, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, parallels, and meridians.
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Earth Viewer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the Earth. In this space instructional activity, students view the " Earth and Moon Viewer" web site and complete a related worksheet.
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An Early American Culture

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils identify the locations of the Hopewell culture. In this map skills lesson, students use a globe to mark several locations of the Hopewell culture.
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Globe Lesson 17 - Alaska and Hawaii - Grade 4-5

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop their globe skills. In this geography skills lesson plan, students explore the area added to the United States when the Alaskan territory was purchased from Russia.
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Globe Skills Lesson 1 Some Early American Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars apply their knowledge of geography. In this geography skills lesson, students read brief selections regarding early Americans. Young scholars respond to the questions included in the self-guided map skills lesson.
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Of Compasses, Sextants and Chronometers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify longitude and latitude and how they were, and are, determined, and discuss the rudiments of navigation in the eighteenth century.
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Introduction to World of Geography Test

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Assess your learners on the five themes of geography and the most important key terms and concepts from an introductory geography unit. Here you'll find an assessment with 15 fill-in-the-blank and 14 multiple-choice questions, sections...
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From Where to Where?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students find locations based upon their latitude and longitude coordinates. In this latitude and longitude lesson plan, students locate points on a grid and learn how to use an astrolabe.
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Globe Lesson 13 - When the Day Changes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the patterns of day and night. In this geography skills lesson, students read brief selections and examine diagrams that note the transition of day and night around the world. Students respond to the questions included...
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Lesson on GPS

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate global positioning systems. In this technology and mapping lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation in which they identify the features of a GPS, state its uses, and follow steps to find a waypoint.
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Tear the Continents

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students tear paper into representative continent shapes and configure them with world oceans through relative location, direction and latitude and longitude starting points. They recognize the shape of the continents. Students recognize...
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Time Zones

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students solve time zone problems and chart travel around the world.  In this time zone lesson, students learn about the history of time zones and view a time zone map.  Students use the time zone map to solve time zone problems. ...
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The Global Grid System-World Map Activity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students demonstrate how to use the global grid system. In this map skills instructional activity, students use a world map to locate various locations. Students identify locations based on the global grid system. Students complete a...
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What do Maps Show?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice the skill of reading maps.  In this geography instructional activity, 8th graders participate in a classroom lecture on how to read a map. 

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