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Finding Places with a Map

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Title:

Finding Places with a Map

URL:

https://www.readworks.org/article/Finding-Places-with-a-Map/2554e12e-faca-4a75-b58a-f58931ac92f6#!articleTab:content/

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Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

In this reading passage, students learn about map elements including legend, symbols, keys, and grids. Maps help people understand the world. A world map shows where places are on Earth. That map helps us see how close or far one country is from another. A road map includes streets and highways. It helps travelers figure out how to get where they want to go.

Content Standard(s):

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 2
Living and Working Together in State and Nation

6 ) Identify states, continents, oceans, and the equator using maps, globes, and technology.

• Identifying map elements, including title, legend, compass rose, and scale

• Identifying the intermediate directions of northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest

• Recognizing technological resources such as a virtual globe, satellite images, and radar

• Locating points on a grid

Unpacked Content

Strand: Geography

Course Title: Living and Working Together in State and Nation

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Identify states, continents, oceans, the equator and other geographic features on maps, globes, and technology resources.
Students use map elements to locate and describe features on maps, globes, and technology resources.
Students use appropriate terminology, including directions and intermediate directions, to describe locations on maps, globes and technology resources.

Teacher Vocabulary:

states
continents
oceans
equator
intermediate directions
recognize
virtual globe
satellite images
radar
locate
points on a grid

Knowledge:

Students know:

Differences among the ways maps, globes, and technological resources represent Earth and portions of the Earth.
Location of states, continents, oceans, equator, and other physical and man-made geographic features. Intermediate directions.
Vocabulary: states, continents, oceans, equator, map, globe, title, legend, compass rose, scale, virtual globe, satellite image, radar, northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest

Skills:

Students are able to:

Use maps, globes, and technological resources.
Locate states, continents, oceans, the equator, and other geographic features.
Locate map elements and use them effectively.
Use intermediate directions to describe location.
Locate points on a grid.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Maps, globes, and geographic technology resources are representations of a variety of geographic features.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.2.6- Identify Alabama and surrounding states on a map; demonstrate an understanding of map elements including title, legend, scale, compass rose, and intermediate directions recognizing technological resources such as a virtual globe, satellite images, and radar.

Tags:

grid, key, legend, road map map, symbols

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Author:

Ginger Boyd

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Finding Places with a Map