Coordinate Grid: Mapping an Archaeological Site

Use maps of well-known cities to teach about quadrants in the coordinate plane. Links to maps for: Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, and Washington DC are included. There are two student resources also: A graph on which to plot points,...

Sixth graders mark activity stations and locations of important buildings on a grid map of an outdoor education school. This is a practical application for the skill of graphing points in the four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

Learners map their playground as if it were an archeological site. They locate objects on the playground and determine their location using coordinate points. A related lesson plan is Coordinate Grid: Mapping an Archeological Site.

In this English Learners integer worksheet, fifth and sixth graders review the coordinate plane showing the Four Corners of the United States. They review the terms coordinate plane, axis, x-axis, y-axis, quadrants, origins, ordered...

Similar to the game Battleship®, partners try and determine where the opponent buried their treasures on the hidden coordinate plane. Two types of planes are provided, one with only quadrant one and one with all four for a higher...

Get out the compass and a pencil its time to use a coordinate grid to practice mapping skills. Young cartographers use the prompts and provided grid to plot locations, draw parallel lines, and determine distances between points. 

In this coordinate graphing learning exercise, youngsters solve four problems where they locate points on a coordinate graph and write the ordered pair for each point. They solve fopur problems where they are given four ordered pairs...

Seven activities make up a collection of supplemental materials to reinforce graphing on a coordinate plane. Worksheet objectives include plotting coordinates within single and four quadrants, measuring straight and diagonal lines, and...

Scholars learn how to find the distance of vertical and horizontal line segments on the coordinate plane in the 19th installment of a 21-part module. The use of absolute value comes in handy.

Working with a map that does not have a coordinate system on it, small, collaborative teams must come up with a coordinate system for their map. Groups then explain their coordinate structure to the class.