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 explores the basic parts of a map including the map title, compass rose and map legend.

This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are expected to: explain the purpose of a map; identify and use a compass rose; use a grid to locate objects on maps; and use a map key. Activities are hands-on with students manipulating...

[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 is a collection of physical and political maps of the United States broken up by region.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to explore 3 basic types of maps, physical, political, and historical. Characteristics of each are discussed and web links to additional examples are given. A short quiz...

[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 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] In this lesson three maps are displayed - Europe, the British Isles, and France. The British Isles map gives city names in French.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using interactive tools, students will discover the many regions of the Middle East using graphic maps and finally, rearrange the jigsaw pieces to recreate the full map.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews map and globe features. The seven continents, four oceans, and city-county-state-country relationships are also explained. Student assessment on directions is included.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use prior knowledge to uncover locations in Asia using a map detailed in this flipchart.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the composition of the thirteen original colonies and asks students to identify the colonies on a map.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart features a Map of the counties in Florida.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses landforms, mapping and the Compass Rose. Students can practice using Cardinal Directions and use Activotes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines and gives examples of various weather symbols and descriptive words concerning weather patterns. It explains the uses of weather maps and how scientists use these to predict the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Following basic lab techniques of modern molecular biology, analyze the gel electrophoresis results of a restriction enzyme digest of DNA by using a HindIII-generated standard curve. Then solve two...

[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] This graphic organizer is a word map helping students with building vocabulary. Students are asked to define, use the word in a sentence, give a synonym and draw a picture of the word. This is...

This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.