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What Goes Up Must Come Down

For Teachers 4th - 7th
After your class has completed The Cay by Theodore Taylor, assess understanding of the plot. First, model how to fill out a plot line for your class. Next, have class members fill in the plot of The Cay on the provided story map. Invite...
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Mapping China

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify cities in China on a map. In this map skills instructional activity, students locate the continent of Asia and the country of China. Students use a blank map to label China and bordering countries.
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Maps in Kindergarten: Rosie’s Walk

For Teachers K
Students are read, Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins. In this sequencing lesson, students discover the importance of knowing how to create a map and read it. They listen to the story and complete various map making activities.
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Geography of Canada

For Teachers K - 5th
All about Canada! Learners explore the geography and providences of Canada by watching videos, studying maps and conducting internet research. By the end of this lesson, your class should be able to locate major areas and compare and...
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States On A Map

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders locate the states of Main and Kansas on a map. In this state location lesson plan, 3rd graders read the book Sarah, Plain and Tall and discuss what states she traveled through.
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Map of Germany

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this map worksheet, pupils can color and label a blank map of Germany. This map show Germany and it's surrounding neighbors.
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"Yarning" About Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify various locations using latitude and longitude. In this map skills lesson plan, students use yarn and labels to create a "human globe." Students identify the Prime Meridian, the Equator, and Northern and Southern...
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Blank Map of Canada

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Canadian geography activity, students use a blank map of Canada to color and label important geographical features and cities. Students will need to do their own research before labeling this map.
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Seasons and Day Time

For Students 8th - 10th
Learners label a diagram of the Earth rotating about the sun and indicate the direction of the rotation and the seasons at each location. They indicate the seasons, the poles, the hours of daylight at each pole, the direction of rotation...
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Into the Deep

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Take young scientists into the depths of the world's ocean with the second lesson of this three-part earth science series. After first drawing pictures representing how they imagine the bottom of the ocean to appear, young scholars...
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A Map of Ghana

For Students 7th - 9th
In this Map of Ghana worksheet, students are given a blank map and key. They are told to label major features and color according to directions.
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Lesson Plan on Map Skills for South Asia

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders observe and discuss an overhead transparency map of South Asia. In small groups, they label a blank map of South Asia, and listen to a lecture on the realm.
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Reading a Map

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders become familiar with the vocabulary and skills related to mapping.  In this guided reading lesson, 3rd graders find proper nouns on from the map.  Students read Goldilocks.  Students make a map...
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Messy Bessey's Holidays

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Teach your class some fairly complex terms—factors of production, human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and intermediate goods—with a storybook (Messy Bessey's Holidays), plenty of visuals and handouts, and related...
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"Label Me" Texas Map

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Texas map worksheet, students research, label and discuss the top ten major cities in Texas on a map, label the physical attributes and identify the surrounding states around Texas.
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Hemispheres & Continents

For Teachers 6th
Students learn in cooperative learning groups to determine how the equator and the Prime Meridian divide the earth into hemispheres and use Venn diagrams. Students will locate and label the hemispheres, continents, and oceans.
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Map of Papua New Guinea

For Students 4th - 5th
In this geography of Papua New Guinea worksheet, students color and label a map with major cities and physical features. Students will need to do their own research to label this blank map.
Organizer
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Outline Map of Turkey

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this outline map of Turkey worksheet, students see a blank map of the country with the adjoining countries shaded in gray. There are no labels on the map.
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State to State Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th - 5th
In this states worksheet, students utilize the Internet to access one specific website to locate the answers to five fill in the blank statements about the states found on a United States map.
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South America Layered

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create an overlay map of South America. They show the relationships between population, landforms and economies with their maps.
Interactive
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Words with Short A, Short I, and Short O #3

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this short a, short i, and short o worksheet, students match words to pictures, complete the sentences, label pictures, and more with the short vowels. Students complete 4 activities.
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United States of America

For Students 3rd - 5th
Here is the perfect assessment to test your young learners on labeling the 50 states! Each state is given a number on a blank map of the United States, and a second page lists the numbers in order for learners to identify. 
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Chapter 9 Review WKST

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Here is a traditional multiple-choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank assessment on the presidency of James Monroe in the United States. It was designed to supplement a particular textbook chapter, but could be used to assess learning...
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The Country of South Africa-Map Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this South Africa map worksheet, students label given features and places on a blank map. A reference web site is given for additional activities.