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Underground Rails: The New York City Subway System
Pupils explore the New York Subway system. They investigate its usefulness as mode of transportation for the people in the city and study its history compared to other city subway systems. They examine how the subway connects the various...
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Introduction to Maps
Students investigate different types of maps and their purposes. In this mapping lesson students complete a worksheet, participate in a class discussion and do a hands on activity.
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It's Happening, Where? Find the Absolute and Relative Location of News Articles
Young scholars read newspaper articles. In this social studies activity, students locate the latitude and longitude of the location where the news article takes place. Young scholars write a summary of the news article.
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Map for Me: An Original Story
Students read Blackbeard and brainstorm their knowledge of maps. For this language arts and geography lesson, students use landmarks on their playground to review north, south, east and west and discuss the compass rose. Students read...
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Maps, Charts, and Graphs
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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Trailblazers - Now and Then
Students, working in pairs, use maps to determine the most efficient routes between two cities. They research which route would have been used by early trailblazers. They present a first person account of one of the trailblazers place in...
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Plotting Earthquakes
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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Map Key
In this map reading worksheet, students read the map key and then cut our and paste the symbols where they belong on the provided map.
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Regional identities in Italy
In this Italy map activity instructional activity, students complete 2 map activities that require them to identify major cities and landforms in the country.
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Where Am I? Map Activity
In this map activity learning exercise, students determine which countries are shown on a set of 16 maps, then read facts about each country designed to help with a report on that country.
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Street Map
In this street map learning exercise, students observe the street map and answer short answer questions using the map. Students complete 4 questions.
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places
Students practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. In this geography lesson, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept of an...
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Map of Kellyburi
In this map worksheet, 6th graders use a map to label 12 locations, answer 6 directional questions, write the answer for 17 general information questions, select the word for 10 sentences and read 25 English words for Thai animal names.
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How Can We Locate Specific Places On Earth?
Second graders discover how to use longitude and latitude to locate specific sites on Earth. They compare old and new ways of locating specific places, and discover how latitude and longitude coordinates are used to locate places on Earth.
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The 21st Century Lewis and Clark Trail
Students create a better route through the Rocky Mountains for the Lewis and Clark expedition after tracing the original path.
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Arkansas Geography/History Relief Map
Sixth graders research a number of sources including the Internet to find information about the regions of Arkansas while locating sites of national historic interest. They located sites on maps while working at assigned websites. They...
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U.S. History: What Happened Here?
Learners apply the global positioning system to create maps of local historical sites. By collaborating with local historical groups, they research events and relate them to broader, national history. In addition to writing essays...
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Thinking Critically about Geography
In this map reading worksheet, students answer 2 critical thinking questions about a map shown. Page has links to additional resources.
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You Can Find It!
Young scholars locate different places including U.S. cities using longitude and latitude coordinates. For this longitude and latitude lesson plan, students locate 10 different locations.
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Creating Station Models
Learners work in groups to interpret weather maps. They use latitude and longitude readings to complete a worksheet together and turn in the worksheet along with the maps and a rubric.
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Native American Homelands
Students discuss the Navajo, Sioux, and Iroquois tribes, noting their distinctive characteristics. They trace the homeland of each of the tribes on maps and create map keys. Students explain how they developed their map keys.
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BOLTSS Map
In this geography worksheet, students identify the six features always used on maps. They identify each of these features by the acronym BOLTSS. Students examine the Melbourne Cricket Ground shown and respond to the 4 questions that follow.
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Map Facts Worksheet
In this geography, ecology, and folklife worksheet, students search Louisiana maps of their choosing to discover the factual information required to complete the graphic organizer.
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