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Tell Time With Your Feet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students discover what the latitude and longitude of their location is. They start walking and measure their shadow. They fill in a chart to discover the approximate time.
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Cities and Countries Around the World

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Briefly introduce your young Spanish speakers to different cities around the world. Identify the country they are located in, what the people are called from those countries, and the country's location on a class map. Make sure to use...
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The Global Grid System-World Map Activity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students demonstrate how to use the global grid system. In this map skills lesson, students use a world map to locate various locations. Students identify locations based on the global grid system. Students complete a worksheet as an...
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Maps: Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students visit interactive sites focusing on latitude and longitude. They participate in activities about the prime meridian, time zones, and equator. They view the coordinates of states and cities.
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Your Expedition of Discovery

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study GPS and see how it is used to determine points on the Earths surface.  In this expedition lesson plan students use GPS to find given coordinates. 
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U.S. History: What Happened Here?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students 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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What do Maps Show?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice the skill of reading maps.  In this geography instructional activity, 8th graders participate in a classroom lecture on how to read a map. 
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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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"Where in the World is my School?"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn new vocabulary and discuss what GPS is and does. They locate their school using the equipment.
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Viewing Earth and Sky

For Students 7th - 12th
In 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, and...
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The Underground Railroad

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore the Underground Railroad routes. In this map skills and Civil War lesson, students use map and globe reading vocabulary and skills to track the routes the slaves followed from the Bahamas to the United States and from...
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How far have we traveled?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice longitude and latitude to determine given position on Earth's surface, convert and calculate angular measurements, and use Pythagorean Theorem to determine change in position or distance traveled between any two...
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Mapping and Topgraphy- 8th Grade

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice interpreting a contour map as well as reading latitude and longitude in a team activity. Following a discussion on mapping terms, teams are given maps and estimate the distance between two points. Students...
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Mush! Tracking Travelers on the Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students get to know Alaska and the Iditarod route that is run by dogs as they track the mushers' progress on a map that they create specifically for the race. They learn about latitude, longitude, plotting on a map, checkpoints, and...
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GPS Treasure Hunt for Knowledge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine themselves as being part of a global community. In this global community lesson, students investigate GPS systems. Students gain knowledge on how the device works. Students discover that satellites provide information...
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Earth's Features

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this geography worksheet, students label a map of the world with the Arctic Circle, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, North Pole, South Pole, and the Antarctic Circle.
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Introduction to Maps

For Teachers 4th - 9th
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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Plotting A Hurricane Using latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore map and plotting skills by tracing the movement s of hurricanes through the Earth's systems. a hurricane map is developed from daily media reports.
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A Star to Steer Her By

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine their latitude using a protracdtor and/or cross-staff to find the altitude of Polaris.
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Map Your School

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners participate in a project to map their school. They measure and graph various areas around the school. Learners find the longitude and latitude of the school and research the school's history, and highlight special important areas.
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and chart the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe.
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Earth Viewer Welcomes You- Web View of the Earth

For Students 6th - 10th
For this science and Internet technology worksheet, students access the given web site to look at a current view of the Earth's surface. They enter longitude and latitude co-ordinates before answering 8 questions. They change the...
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NIGHT AND DAY: DAILY CYCLES IN SOLAR RADIATION

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how Earth's rotation causes daily cycles in solar energy using a microset of satellite data to investigate the Earth's daily radiation budget and locating map locations using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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NOAA

Ocean Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Where am I? The second installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program starts with pupils guessing the years in which major ocean exploration events took place. The instructional activity then...

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