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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Map Coordinates: Monkey Map

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here's an engaging, meaningful, and clever instructional activity on map skills for elementary schoolers. Pupils combine story writing with mapping skills to create an original piece of work. They utilize a worksheet embedded in the plan...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Titanic's Lost Sister: Camera Overboard!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about different diving equipment in order to determine which would be most useful in recovering a sunken object and exploring underwater. Find a location on a globe or map using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Interactive
New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Latitude & Longitude

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here is an interactive & printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Latitude & Longitude.
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Handout
Other

Boat Safe Kids: Longitude and Latitude

For Students 9th - 10th
This website starts at the very beginning and explains how round globes are transferred to flat maps. Then they explain the use of longitude and latitude.