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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways
Young scholars read Little Red Riding Hood, focusing on her path home to Grandma's house. In this language arts and geography lesson plan, students perform a reader's theater, re-creating the walk home and possible routes that could have...
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Map for Me: An Original Story
Young scholars read Blackbeard and brainstorm their knowledge of maps. In this language arts and geography lesson, students use landmarks on their playground to review north, south, east and west and discuss the compass rose. Young...
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Literary Pilgrimages: Exploring the Role of Place in Writers’ Lives and Work
Do the places you have lived influence what you write? Class members research the lives of writers and look for how places these writers have lived might have influenced their writings.
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Three Scale Drawing Activities
In this scale drawing worksheet, students complete three different scale drawing activities. One activity is making a scale drawing, one involves answering questions from a given scale drawing, and one is a cross-number...