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What You Can Learn From a Map
Students discover how to interpret maps. In this geography skills lesson plan, students explore geographic themes as they complete worksheet activities regarding road maps, shaded relief maps, and topographic maps.
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Mapping the Halifax Explosion
Students research the Halifax Explosion using historical maps.
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What Do Maps Show?
Students discover the uses for various types of maps. In this geography skills instructional activity, students discuss the type of maps that exist and what their individual features are. Students then practice using different types of...
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Organization of a Territory, Map Elements
Third graders compare printed and online maps and use proper geographic terminology to answer questions.
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Map Skills: Explorers, Continents, and Oceans
Third graders use a software program to make and label a map of the world. On the map, they locate the seven continents, oceans and the countries of Europe. They also draw the routes of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon and...
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Geography Skills
Students practice their geography skills. For this geography skills lesson, students locate, plot, and label places on maps and globes.
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Landscape Picture Map - Lesson 8 (K-3)
Students explore the functions of landscape picture maps. In this geography skills lesson plan, students examine a landscape picture map and identify buildings on the map where people are employed. Students also participate in a...
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United States Map- State Capitals
Students explore the state capitals. In this geography lesson, students use a political map to identify the state capitals and place post-it notes on various capitals.
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Landscape Picture Map
Students identify a neighborhood on a Landscape Picture Map. In this geography lesson, students discuss the characteristics of their neighborhood and identify their neighborhood on a Landscape Picture Map. Students use post-it notes to...
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Traveling/Mapping
Students examine routes to gold. For this California gold rush lesson, students map land and water routes to California. Students use maps to copy the routes that they want to market to gold diggers.
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Mapping Your School Grounds
Pupils create a map of their school grounds. In this mapping lesson, students work in teams to make a map of their school grounds. Pupils note major features, observe, and record wildlife in the school grounds.
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Treasure Map
In this writing worksheet, pupils find a treasure by following the correct path on the map. Students write directions telling exactly how to get there. A list of sequential words is provided to help pupils write directions.
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We're on the Map!
Students identify a variety of topographic map symbols. They make generalizations about an unidentified community by reading and interpreting map symbols.
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Examining Character Traits through Character Mapping
Some of what we know about a character is directly stated. Some of what we know is inferred by events in the story. Character maps help primary learners recognize the difference. After modeling with a story your class has read, pupils...
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Wales: An Interdisciplinary Unit
Students practice basic map and geographic skills as they compare Oregon to Wales. Students color map of Wales and Oregon using color codes to distinguish between land, water, and bordering nations or states, listen to stories and...
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Learning About Maps
Students take a "field trip" with the teacher through the school then draw a diagram of what they saw. They bring the maps to the computer lab where they create electronic maps using the software program Neighborhood Map Machine.
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Introduction to the World Map
Students identify the differences between maps and globes. In this map skills instructional activity, students are shown a globe and a map and recognize the differences. Students use post-it notes to locate several locations on the world...
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Westward Expansion : Mapping
Fifth graders travel along exploring the expeditions of John F. Fremont. For this Westward expansion lesson, 5th graders gain understanding of the events that shaped the west through the use of maps. Students use mapping skills to...
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Latitude and Longitude
Students demonstrate how to locate places on a map using a grid. In this map skills instructional activity, students are introduced to latitude and longitude lines. Students define these terms and view a large map of a state. Students...
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A View from the Ground
Students look at a park from ground perspective. In this map skills lesson, students are introduced to a story about a girl at a park and make observations about the park based on a picture. This prepares students for the next lesson in...
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"Yarning" About Latitude and Longitude
Students identify various locations using latitude and longitude. For this map skills lesson, students use yarn and labels to create a "human globe." Students identify the Prime Meridian, the Equator, and Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
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Tortoise and Hare Races
Practice basic map skills with the story of The Tortoise and the Hare. After listening to the story, class members create a map that indicates the starting line, the path the animals took, where they stopped to rest, and the finish line....
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An Emancipation Proclamation Map Lesson
Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves during the Civil War? Why was it written, and what were its immediate and long-term effects? After reading primary source materials, constructing political maps representing information...
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The Great Military: Map of Texas
The battle at the Alamo may be one of the most famous military campaigns in Texas history, but it is by no means the only one. As part of their study of the military history of Texas, class members research less-well-known sites, locate...
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