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Learn how coordinate maps work and use them to find a specific square. Find an item on a map and identify its coordinates. Introduce the compass and reading directions. find coordinates by row and column, letter and number. Identify what is at a set of coordinates. Find the coordinates for an item on a map. Use compass directions. Worksheet 1 ...
Students will learn how to use a compass rose, a scale of miles, how to read a map key and find places on a map. Students will use latitude and longitude to pinpoint coordinates and use the caridal directions to show what direction to travel from city to city.
Oct 15, 2021 · Level: Grade 2 or 3. Language: English (en) ID: 1528487. 15/10/2021. Country code: TT. Country: Trinidad & Tobago. School subject: Geography (1061805) Main content: Finding directions on a map (1575788) From worksheet author: 4 short questions on reading map directions.
- Shared Writing
- Making Maps in Small Groups
- Learning About Map Symbols
- Digital Versions and Maps
- Me on The Map Flip Book
Next, I showed the students some maps that I have collected and I pointed out features like the compass rose, map key, cardinal directions, roads and symbols. We also watched a couple of YouTube videos about maps. Next, we made an anchor chart with a list of places that someone might want to find in our town.
The students worked in small groups tocreate their own maps of the town. To save time, I drew roads on a large piece of white construction paper. You could let your students do this part too, if you have time. The kids used construction paper scraps to create a street mapwith different places from our list that we made in shared writing. They had s...
Next, it was time to dive a little deeper and learn about the symbols on a map. I showed the students these anchor chartswhere they learned about the key and the compass rose. The students learned that a map key contains symbols for places on a map. We used these picture sorting cardsto match the place with its symbol. Then, the students practiced ...
The students also practiced working in our Google Classroom using this google slides activity. This gave them great practice working online and these activities were perfect for distance learning or hybrid learning!
We finished up our unit by making this flip book for the story Me On The Map. It demonstrated to the students their place in the world as they illustrated their house, neighborhood, town, state, country and world. 1. make their own 3-dimensional maps 2. follow a route through a neighborhood, a zoo, and help find a lost dog 3. use a compass rose to ...
This worksheet can be used to help students learn map reading and prepositions. Great practice for map skills, direction giving and following, and understandin…
Map reading. Helps young learners develop map-reading skills and spatial awareness. Pupils use a grid map and cardinal directions to measure distances and find places in a town. Teacher’s notes provide step-by-step instructions and suggestions for additional map-reading exercises and classroom activities.
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To read a map you need to understand: what directions mean and how to use a compass. grid references. how to find what symbols mean by using a key. which type of map you are reading, for...
