Absolute And Relative Location

Students conduct a poll to determine how different people get to a particular location. In this problem solving lesson plan, students ask both men and women to describe how they get to a particular location. Then, they determine the...

How much does your class know about Puerto RIco? How much can they learn from the back of a 2009 quarter? Use the coin, part of a series of quarters that depict US territories, to teach learners about the geography, culture, and history...

Students read newspaper articles. In this social studies lesson, students locate the latitude and longitude of the location where the news article takes place. Students write a summary of the news article.

Learners identify their location in the world after studying latitude, longitude, relative location, and absolute location. They use assigned web site to find information to make a flipbook that answers questions about their location in...

Fifth graders explore places visited by Lewis and Clark. In this geographical concepts lesson, 5th graders plot places on a map and put events in chronological order. Students find locations on a map using longitude and latitude....

Students acquire a working knowledge of the geographical concepts: absolute location, relative location, longitude and latitude. They analyze primary sources that shows the physical and human characteristics of the places along the 1899...

Students locate the Island of Bermuda, and identify its absolute and relative location.

Fourth graders participate in center activities to explore the concept of absolute and relative location. They locate places in North Carolina using absolute and relative location on a map. They complete the studying frame as a summary...

Students explain and explain the concept of a grid system. They define absolute and relative location and develop an imaginary city on graph paper using a grid system.

Students study things the you need to know to read a map and explain location.