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Students Become Mapmakers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice making a map of a continent and correctly plotting five cities on that map. They place latitude and longitude lines on a map, determine the need for various map projections and explain why map scales are necessary.
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Sunrise and Sunset - Graph of Daily Solar Radiation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a graph of daily solar radiation to determine the times of sunrise and sunset. They also compare how sunrise, sunset, and the length of the day changes with latitude and longitude.
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Plotting Plates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate plate tectonics and their correlation with natural phenomena like earthquakes and volcanoes. They use the internet to see real-time data about earthquakes and volcanoes. Students plot latitude and longitude points on...
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Cargo Shipping

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work effectively in groups to achieve a common goal: Create the most efficient cargo shipping route. They successfully identify and locate port cities using latitude and longitude. To use the formula r=d/t (rate equals distance...
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Beach Sands of the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine a variety of sand samples from throughout the world. On an index card, they write the characteristics of the sand and draw what the grains look like to use during the activity. Using a map, they practice plotting...
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What Causes Irregular Temperature Patterns?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine common trends in climate across the U.S. They identify the anomalies in hot-cold temperature differences in the U.S and locate them on the map using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Our State Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students take a virtual tour of the country of China instead of a state. Using the Internet, they examine the differences between a political and physical map and use latitude and longitude to locate specific places. They also research...
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Southern Agriculture and the Slave Trade

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the relationship between agriculture and the slave trade during the 1860s. In groups, they research how two factors led to the explosion of slavery in the Southern United States. Using maps, they answer comprehension...
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GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD & FIBER

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils will explain the ways geography determines the crops grown in the United States and other countries, and the resulting trade relationships.1. Discuss trade routes, both ancient and current. Discuss why the most direct route from...
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Longitude & Latitude

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders role play as ship's captains to study longitude and latitude.
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Earth Matters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify Earth's equator, prime meridian, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, parallels, and meridians.
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What in the World?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders plot points of longitude and latitude on a world map. In groups, they create a model of the earth's interior and label the parts,
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The World (With an emphasis on the United States)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize the different continents. They are introduced to longitude and latitude and how to find locations using these measurements. This series ends with an emphasis on the fifty states of the United States and their...
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The Longitude and Latitude of the Night Sky: Declination & Right Ascension

For Students 6th - 8th
In this longitude and latitude activity, learners identify and write in the correct hours, minutes, and seconds for right ascension. Then they identify and write the correct + or - degree in the space for declination or latitude. There...
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Sunspots 3: Tracking the Movement of Sunspots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze sunspots through the use of solar imaging from satellite instruments. They collect two types of images, and track the movement of sunspots using a latitude/longitude grid.
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Our State Road Trip

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a virtual tour of the state of Florida.
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Of Compasses, Sextants and Chronometers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify longitude and latitude and how they were, and are, determined, and discuss the rudiments of navigation in the eighteenth century.
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Maps, Charts, and Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define key geographic terms and track a hurricane on a map. They examine various types of maps and find locations on them,including rivers, cities and mountains.
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Viewing Earth and Sky

For Students 7th - 12th
For this earth and sky worksheet, students review terms associated with map reading. Students also review topographic maps and how contour lines represent elevation. This worksheet has 5 matching, 5 true or false, 5 fill in the blank,...
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Plotting Earthquakes

For Students 5th - 8th
In this earthquakes learning exercise, students access a website to gather information about the magnitude and location of earthquakes for 5 days. Then students complete 7 short answer questions.
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Longitude

For Students 5th - 6th
In this globe worksheet, students learn how longitude is measured on a globe. Students read the information before answering 5 questions. A globe will be required.
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Globe Lesson 6 - Longitude - Grade 6+

For Students 6th - 8th
In this longitude worksheet, learners read a 3-paragraph review of longitude and respond to 13 short answer questions.
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Globe Lesson 5 - Latitude - Grade 6+

For Students 6th - 8th
For this latitude worksheet, students read a 3-paragraph review of latitude and respond to 12 short answer questions.
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Let the North Star Tell You Where You Are

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in activities in which they find the Big Dipper and locate the North Star in the night sky, examine the relationship between the angle to Polaris and latitude, and determine latitude by using an astrolabe.

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