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Name That Town
Students demonstrate how to locate places on a map using coordinates. In this map skills activity, students work in small groups and select a name from a map index to locate. Students use coordinates to identify the location on a map....
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The Archer and The Sun
First graders explore Chinese folktales. In this Chinese folktale instructional activity ,students read Chinese folktales, locate China on a map, and color the Chinese flag. Students are given sentence strips to hold and must arrange...
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Finding Your Spot in the World
Young scholars practice locating places on a Thomas Brothers map. In this map skills instructional activity, students locate places on the map of where their ancestors are from and then practice finding various community places on a map....
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Finding Places and Things Using Maps
In this finding places and things using maps activity, 1st graders interactively select which map (out of 4) would be used to find the place or thing described.