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Globe Skills Lesson 10 Apollo 11

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop their globe skills. In this geography skills instructional activity, students use a globe and a softball to replicate distance between the earth and its moon.
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Globe Skills Lesson 3 Voyage to the New World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the globe. In this globe skills lesson, students use their knowledge of latitude and longitude to respond to questions regarding Christopher Columbus's maiden voyage to the Americas.
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Globe Lesson- The Revolutionary War

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover using globes. In this geography lesson, students use a globe to outline the original 13 colonies. Students also use a globe to measure the distance from London to New York City and determine how many days it would have...
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Globe Skills Lesson 7 The Transcontinental Railroad

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the Transcontinental Railroad. In this geography skills lesson, students use map skills in order to locate legs of the Transcontinental Railroad on globes.
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Globe Skills Lesson 6 The Louisiana Purchase

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the Louisiana Purchase territory. In this geography skills lesson, students use map skills in order to plot and note latitude and longitude, measure scale distance, and locate landforms that were part of the...
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Globe Skills Lesson 4 The Colonial Period

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their map skills. In this Colonial geography lesson, students complete an activity that requires them to locate English colonial locations using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Globe Skills Lesson 1 Some Early American Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply their knowledge of geography. In this geography skills instructional activity, students read brief selections regarding early Americans. Students respond to the questions included in the self-guided map...
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Globe Skills Lesson 5

For Students 6th - 11th
In this map skills instructional activity, students read a text selection about locations during the American Revolution and then respond to 8 fill in the blank questions.
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Globe Lesson- Early Spanish Settlements

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use a globe. In this geography and early settlements lesson, students learn about the settlement of missions and haciendas in New Mexico. Students locate Mexico City and San Francisco on the globe and determine the distance...
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Kinds of Maps

For Students 4th - 5th
In this map instructional activity, students match a set of descriptions with the names of different types of maps and answer true/false questions and short answer questions about using maps.
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Mapping Community Values

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss the origin of various maps focusing on the values behind them. Students also explore how human needs and geography influence community settlement patterns. Students extend learning by creating and mapping their own ideal...
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Thematic Maps of Your School

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students are able to list the essential elements of a thematic map, understand and use scale effectively to represent a geographic area, use research skills to develop a body of information, plan and draw an accurate thematic map based...
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Finding Your Way Using Maps and Globes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners identify the similarities and differences between different maps and globes. Individually, they create a map of their classroom along with a compass rose. They also practice reading maps as a class and finding specific locations.
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United States Map- Continent, Country, State

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students identify their continent, country, and state on a globe. In this geography lesson, students use a globe to identify the seven continents, the United States, and the state which they live in. Students define key terms.
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United States Map - Lesson 7: Four Main Directions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students locate the North and South Poles, and learn the definitions of the four directions by using a United States Map and a globe. In this directions lesson plan, students define north, south, east, and west on a map and a globe.
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What is a Globe?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this globe worksheet, students read a definition of a globe and identify the North Pole. Students color the globe to illustrate the land and water.
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Midnight Martian

Mars Globe HD

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the surface of Mars without leaving the comforts of your home or classroom! Learn about volcanoes, missions to the red planet, view the topography, and more. 
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A Watery World

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
With about 70% of the earth's surface covered in oceans, it's fair to say that we live in a very wet world. Young scientists gain a better appreciation of this fact as they use maps to identify the world's ocean basins in the first...
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Making Globes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct and design paper mache globes. They paint and draw the continents and oceans, and label each continent and ocean.
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World Map and Globe-Equator, North Pole, and South Pole

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars identify the Equator, North Pole, and South Pole on a map. For this geography lesson, students use a world map and circle the North and South Pole. Young scholars locate the Equator on a globe and use a map marker to...
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Introduction to the United States Map

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the United States using a map. In this map lesson, students discover how to use a United States map and a globe to locate places.
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World Map and Globe - Lesson 1 Introduction to the Globe

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the earth with maps and globes. In this map lesson, students use maps and globes to locate oceans and continents.
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The Global Grapefruit - Maps vs Globes

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Learners tell how maps differ from globes, state some characteristics of 3 different types of map projections, and realize that distortions are inherent in various systems of map projections.
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The Globe and World Map

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore how to use maps for travel. In this map skills lesson, students read the text, With Love from Gran and discuss the places the character traveled. Students list the names of each city and country on chart paper.

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