Super Teacher Worksheets
My Explorer Report
This is the perfect resource to accompany your class project on famous explorers! Learners detail basic information about their chosen explorer, his/her main events of exploration and means of transportation, and finally, illustrate the...
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Taking Its Toll
Students explore ratios. In this rates instructional activity, students create a ratio to compare the price of a toll to the distance travelled. They compute the average cost per mile, determine the slope between two ordered pairs, and...
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Overland Trails To The West
After observing a map of trails that settlers took in the 1800s, your class will write a journal with the perspective of a settler. In their journals, they must describe the trail they traveled, geographical features they saw, states and...
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Cartography Project
A lesson involving mapping, the use of a compass, writing and following directions, and exploring the first two themes of geography is here for you. Learners create original maps that show the routes they take through their own...
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European Explorer IMovie
Film is a wonderful way to communicate any concept or idea. Fifth graders will use IMovie and GarageBand software to create a IMovie about one of eight European explorers. They will chose an explorer, research his travels and life, then...
Mascil Project
Amberhavn: New Bus Network
Public transportation is an important aspect of any growing city. Collaborative groups work to redesign a system for a city in need of restructuring. Young scholars design a route, create a timetable, and incorporate a quality control...
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Map Your Favorite Sports Team's Next Road Trip
Young scholars track a sports team across the country. They use a map scale to calculate the number of miles traveled by their sports team on a trip, conduct Internet research, and calculate how much it would cost them to go along on the...
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Tens! Hundreds! Thousands!!! of Tons
Fifth graders take a close look at the types of ships that travel through the Hudson River Valley on the Hudson River. They utilize worksheets embedded in the plan in order to answer questions about exactly what is being shipped, and how...
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Message in a Bottle - A Satellite Journey through the Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream has historically provided humans with a faster trade route because of its swift-moving waters. It continues to be a source of information and fascination for oceanographers today. As your class views this collection of...
NOAA
A Laboratory Simulation of Ocean Surface Currents
Stimulate interest in ocean currents with a simulation. The first installment of a five-part middle school series teaches future oceanographers about the forces that interact to cause ocean currents. A simulation shows how wind and the...
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Keeping the Pizza Hot
Learners conduct an experiment to develop a cooling curve for pizza. They consider how this affects pizza delivery in terms of packing material, distance, and delivery routes.
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Travel Buddies
A travel buddy is some sort of animal or stuffed character that is transported from one school to another and another. A journal accompanies the buddies and the students make journal entries as if they were written by the buddy at each...
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Oral Language
Students use distances on a map to draw a route, give directions, and follow directions. In this map lesson plan, students explain their route and directions orally.
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Persistent Paths: Trails, Tracks and Turnpikes Across the Alleghenies
High schoolers study maps to determine barriers associated with the Pennsylvania mountains and the Native Americans. In this investigative lesson high schoolers study the routes used by Native Americans, explain physical features of the...
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Using Maps
In this using maps worksheet, student use a small map to find different routes between cities, then find the shortest route by adding the mileage.
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Geography Journey
In this geography activity, learners use a map of Amtrak train routes (not included) to answer 10 short answer questions. Students describe physical features and landmark cities they would see if traveling by train across the country.
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Globe Lesson 9 - Around the World - Grade 6+
In this geography skills worksheet, students read 5-travel scenarios and use their problem solving skills to respond to 9 short answer questions.
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The Mormon Trail Through Iowa
Middle schoolers read selections from travel diaries and create their own travel diary. In this Mormon Trail through Iowa lesson, students discover background of the Mormon Trek of 1846 and discuss how a group may be persecuted for...
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Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Essex County
Fifth graders investigate the end of slavery and the hidden paths slaves used to travel. In this U.S. history lesson, 5th graders examine the travel routes slaves used in Essex County known as the Underground Railroad. Students write a...
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Trade and Travel Along the Silk Road
Students examine the religions that developed along the Silk Road. In this compare and contrast lesson, students visit various stations within the classroom to learn about the Silk Road and the two religions that developed. Using a...
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Down to the Sea in Ships...Really!
Students discuss the travel of ancient sailors and the use of ships. They complete a Venn diagram, and compare and contrasts the two points of view on ancient ship travel.
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Major Transport Routes 2
Students identify different transport routes used in travel and tourism. They research alternate forms of traveling instead of flying. They plan trips to a destination of their choice using alternate transportation methods.
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Major Transport Routes 1
Students study the major transport routes used in global travel and tourism in this the first of two lessons. They look at the history and evolution of transport routes and how they affect the travel industry focusing in the United Kingdom.
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Routing Explorers
Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...