This geography unit is designed to follow the 1st Grade geography skills required in Virginia. Students are expected to use cardinal directions, read map keys and understand map symbols, as well as identify our city and capital.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart demonstrates how to use a CD Word Map Chart to increase comprehension for students. There is a blank page to discuss the format, two CD Word Map Chart examples regarding geometric shapes,...

[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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson map skills are reinforced by identifying physical features in Germany. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and land elevation are discussed. Political maps identify population and cities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the basic components of maps: legend, scale, Compass rose and labels. Clips from United Streaming video are included to illustrate these concepts. Student assessment and a student...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Reading, Grade 2 and is a guideline for comprehension and vocabulary for Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant. Interactive vocabulary...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer flipchart uses the fishbone technique to map cause and effect. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the Mississippi River and how to read Maps.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Overview: In this lesson, students will learn the basics about how tornadoes are formed, and when and where they are most likely to occur. They will learn that the United States is the country most...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...