Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Maps and Me
Lesson to reinforce basic map skills. Learners discuss Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney, work in groups to create maps of the classroom, and use these maps to hunt for treasure.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geographic Groceries
This site provides activities and lesson plans for all age levels on mapping.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps
Lesson designed to introduce maps and the cardinal directions. After listening to the teacher read aloud or tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, students retell the story and use cutouts of landmarks and arrows to create a map of...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Nature Cat: Let's Explore With Maps!: Grade 3
Nature Cat and friends learned some map skills as they searched for treasure in the story segment "The Treasure of Bad Dog Bart". Learn about compasses, landmarks, and maps with Nature Cat, Squeeks, and more. Finally, help Hal remember...
Other
Edte.ch: Maths Maps
Maths Maps is a collaborative project where participants use Google maps to choose a location within one of the cities highlighted, then create a Math problem about the site. The problems are marked on the map with various colors...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Map Trap
Lesson to reinforce maps skills and concepts. Students map locations around their school and use world maps to locate major landmarks.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mapping Vertical Movements
Using flubber and plastic wrap, learners study the Earth's crust and mantle.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Map Your Schoolyard
Lesson plan introduces the concept of maps while providing a forum to practice the skill of navigating using a map.
Other
Chaim Potok: Maps of Meaning
Read about a speech, given by Chaim Potok, at Seattle Pacific University, in which Potok discusses his novels and their cultural and religious messages. "A Conversation with Chaim Potok," includes Potok's responses to several questions...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Make Up Your Mind: Mind Mapping
Investigate the pseudoscience of phrenology and its attempt to organize and assign different purposes to different parts of the brain. Create a phrenology chart on a bathing cap and compare it to modern understanding of brain function...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Map Animal Habitats
In this Plum Landing activity, students will write or draw descriptions of where animals live in their neighborhoods. Students can publish their descriptions online.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Capacity and Position
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include comparing capacity of three or more containers, using compass directions to describe locations, and using...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expository Essay: State Trip
After researching a place/event of interest in Alabama, students write a five-paragraph essay. Students include maps and written directions to the location, describe activities and/or events associated with this location, include in this...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Montana: The Borders of Montana
Students will study a map of Montana's terrain, learn about natural and manmade boundaries, label the major features of the state, and pick which area of Montana would be best for settlement and explain why.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Third From the Sun
Students learn about the history of Earth imaging, the Landsat satellite program. They develop interpretation skills as they play a game that involves inferring the subjects of various Landsat images.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Predictable!
Students follow weather forecasts to gauge their accuracy and produce a weather report for the class. They develop skills of observation, recording and reporting.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: Middle East
Investigate the countries and geography of the Middle East. Study the flags, maps, facts, exports, natural resources, economy, populations, and languages of the Middle East.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: Virgin Islands
Kids learn about the geography of the Virgin Islands on this site. Study the history, capital, flag, climate, terrain, people, economy, and population.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Number: Count to 1000 and Money
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include counting forwards by tens, reading three-digit numbers, and producing a three-digit number using base...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Time
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario of a fashion store. Those skills include comparing time facts, and using hours, minutes and seconds to tell time.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Angles
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include finding angles, drawing angles larger or smaller than a given angle, and locating right angles.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Soccer Stadium: Changing Numbers
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a soccer field. Those skills include creating numbers for a number pattern, creating patterns using manipulatives, and using diagrams to...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Decimals
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include creating patterns of decimal numbers, describing relationships between multiplication facts ,and being...
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