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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A School Map

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Article
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Discussing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"

For Teachers 1st
In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
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Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Map Your Schoolyard

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson plan introduces the concept of maps while providing a forum to practice the skill of navigating using a map.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Treasure Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get hands-on with students in building a map with a class. Take students outside to a sandbox and work with them to build a map of campus. Once the map is drawn you can turn their design into a treasure hunt to assess map interpretation.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Capture the Flag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson requires learners to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of resources for children ages 3-8 are drawn from the public television series Let's Learn, a partnership between the WNET Group and the New York City Department of Education. Let's Learn aims to provide our young...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Where on Earth Is It?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a preliminary pre-assessment on positional words, before beginning a unit on mapping skills.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Where's Buster?: A u.s. Geography Game About the States

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Develop map and directional skills as well as skills in following a series of clues to find which U.S. state Buster is in.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cardinal Directions | Activity Starter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A thorough interactive program helping students to understand the cardinal directions.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Find Captain Hook's Treasure

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lesson that helps students understand maps, map directions, and map symbols. Students use teacher-created maps to locate numbered keys on the playground.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Pbs Teachers: A Place of Our Own: Habitat Map

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This three-dimensional map activity helps children share about themselves and talk about who they are and where they come from. Good basis for learning about maps, similarities and differences, respect and acceptance of diversity and...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Maps Globe Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses landforms, mapping and the Compass Rose. Students can practice using Cardinal Directions and use Activotes.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Word Map

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
[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...
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Fractions (Quarters)

For Students 1st - 3rd
Practice your fraction skills with this game. Erica is celebrating Halloween. Which costume are you wearing?
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Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: China Through Mapping

For Teachers 1st - 5th
In this lesson, Mimi Norton integrates world geography with the study of Chinese culture and history by engaging her young learners in a variety of activities to locate natural and human-made landmarks on maps of China. To build...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Map Animal Habitats

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this Plum Landing activity, students will write or draw descriptions of where animals live in their neighborhoods. Students can publish their descriptions online.
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Other

Common Core: Curriculum Maps: Tell a Story, 1 2 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this second six-week unit of Kindergarten, students focus on sequence as they enjoy "Counting Books," both fiction and informational, and stories based on "three."

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