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How do we employ map skills to indentify geographic locations?
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3. Student Learning Map
- Topic:Maps and Geography
- Subject(s):Social Studies
- Days:10
- Grade(s):K
Key Learning:
Gaining map skills and becoming familiar with geography helps us gain world perspective.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):How do the continents differ? (size, location, climate, population, natural resources) (A)
How does where I live effect how I live? (A)
How do people travel across the globe? (A)
Additional Information:
(Note: Holidays and Cultural Observances may be taught based on their calendar occurance dates. See Spotlight on Social Studies on the PCSB website.)
Guest speaker: travel agent, plan a vacation project, design a brochure about a world location, United Streaming: "Understanding Maps: Key to Everywhere" 15 min. video, "Peep and the Big Wide World: Wandering Beaver/Peep's New Friend" 22:02 min. video
Teacher manual, globes, maps, technology, graphic organizer, compass, fiction and non-fiction tradebooks, photographs, currency, "As the crow flies : a first book of maps" by Gail Hartman ; illustrated by Harvey Stevenson.
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