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Earth Day Grid Math
Get into springtime with a festive practice sheet designed to test scholars' knowledge of grids. Learners locate items such as watering cans, snails, and flowers following the x and y-axis. Worksheet themes include Earth Day, gardening,...
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The Global Grid System-World Map Activity
Students demonstrate how to use the global grid system. In this map skills activity, students use a world map to locate various locations. Students identify locations based on the global grid system. Students complete a worksheet as an...
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Locating Places
Learners demonstrate how to use the map grid system. In this map skills lesson plan, students are given coordinates to locate several locations on a world map. Learners use the map grid system to identify these locations.
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Locating Places - Making a Map Grid
Students learn how to use a letter and number map grid. In this map grid lesson, students look at a landscape map and describe how to locate the airport. They compare the descriptions of different students to determine how they are the...
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Finding Your Way on the Farm
Third graders make a grid map. In this directionality lesson plan, 3rd graders review how to use a grid to locate objects or places on a map. Students draw a grid map of the classroom and locate seating assignments. Students create a...
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Some Things You Need to Know to Read a Map
Students study things the you need to know to read a map and explain location.
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Plotting a Hurricane Using Latitude and Longitude
Learners define and use "absolute location," latitude, and longitude. They locate on a map or globe the Earth's poles, circles, tropics, and beginning points of measurements for latitude and longitude.
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Me on the Map Lesson 1
Young scholars use maps, globes, geographic information systems and other
sources of information to analyze the nature of places at a variety of scales. They identify on a map and determine the population
of the city, county, state,...
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Latitude on World Maps - World Map Activity 2
Students explore the concept of latitude. In this geography lesson, students discover the global grid system and complete a map activity which require them to record the latitude of various cities in the world.
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What do Maps Show?
Eighth graders practice the skill of reading maps. In this geography lesson, 8th graders participate in a classroom lecture on how to read a map.
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South America Layered
Seventh graders create an overlay map of South America. They show the relationships between population, landforms and economies with their maps.
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Where Am I?
Students apply map reading skills by locating places through the use of latitude and longitude.
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Cardinal Directions
Students explore cardinal directions. In this social studies lesson, students create maps of home and school using the cardinal directions.
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Explore Surface Types on a Journey Around Earth
Students explore satellite data. In this technology cross-curriculum math and world geography lesson plan, students locate specific map areas using a microset of satellite data. Students use technology and math skills to determine...
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Finding Important Community Sites
Students locate community sites on a city map using the map legend and grid system.
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Dough Lake Topology
High schoolers practice coordinates and measurements, develop 2D, 3D topological map, construct grid with string on real surface, establish "level" fixed point for measurements, take and record data points of elevation, and enter data on...
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Hurricane Tracking
Students access the Internet to find information on current hurricanes. They get locations, speeds, and air pressures and then plot the location of the hurricane on a hurricane-tracking map. They also access the FEMA website to solve...
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Treasure Hunters
Students design an on campus treasure hunt to find various architectural vocabulary words which they then create definitions for on the blog page on the Environmental Design website.
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Latitude on World Maps
Sixth graders examine the purposes of maps. In this Geography lesson plan, 6th graders practice using latitude and longitude on a map.
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Rescue!
Learners explore movement and position concepts. They follow directions using left , right, up, down, North, South, East and West. Students draw and follow a path on a grid to show a route followed. They label and follow legends on a map.
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Painting the Hallway with Pixels
Young scholars create science design to be painted on the wall in the hallway of the science area of the school building. They measure space available, make a scale model of the design, and paint different pixels.
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Give Me a B: North Dakota Quarter Reverse
Students examine the North Dakota quarter reverse and note the bison. and Badlands displayed on it. After practicing as a group making the B sound, they explore the classrom for more words beginning with that letter. Working in pairs,...
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Atlas Scavenger Hunt
Young scholars discover what type of information in an atlas by participating in a scavenger hunt. With a partner, they try to find the answers to many questions as possible. They exchange their papers with another partner group and...