Geography: Maps and Globe skills

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Geography Maps and Globe skills

• House Keeping
• Q. Do you have your unit figured out?
• - How are we doing?

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Maps globe skills

• Why use maps and globes in social studies?
• Look at the maps you brought- your country..

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Why Teach Maps and Globe skills?

• Reasons
• Understanding maps and globes is vital to the
  social studies curriculum.
• According to Nelson (1998) with an
  understanding of the locations of the earths
  great land and water masses, all other areas of
  social studies can be placed in a workable,
  unambiguous frame. The land and water provide a
  common beginning that is not subject to
  reinterpretation based on new historical or
  economic discoveries. p. 288

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Continued

• A basic understanding of the globe helps students
  to place incidents where they happen. For
  example, a story in a news paper about a place in
  Wyoming- say the capital city .. Will only make
  meaning to the student if they can mentally
  position the capital city.
• Other examples would be recent natural
  disasters in the U.S.A.
• War in the Middle East etc.

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The globe

• Should be available in every classroom for
  students to handle or play with
• A globe should clearly show land and water
  masses.
• A teaching globe should be non-political.
• Avoid overwhelming information that might be
  confusing.
• However, for older children the level of
  complexity should be higher.
• Globes are available at different prices
• The teacher and students can also make their own
  globes- NB PAPER MACHE GLOBE

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Lesson planning-

• Unit Maps Geography and You
• Sample lesson Map Reading Skills.
• Grade Level Content would vary depending on
  grade.
• Standards What standards would you cover
  (Wyoming national).
• Ice breaker
• What do the following people have in common?
  (Burdett Ginn, 1991).
• A tuck driver
• A TV weather forecaster
• An explorer
• An airplane pilot
• A treasure hunter

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Learning objectives Activities

• Possible Learning objectives from research work
  Dough maps
• Activities-
• Definition of terms
• Travel Game
• Draw a country from a hat and locate it on a
  map
• Identify longitudes latitudes
• Map making- Create your own Continent
• Describe a type of climate that exists only on
  that continent in one

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Possible questions

• Why are maps important?
• What kind of information does a map show?
• maps the same size as distance they show?
• Yes No Explain your answer.
• Why is the prime meridian important?
• Describe why is the equator important?

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Other possible lessons Extensions

• Possible lessons
• Extension What would you do?

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To do Look at Quiz 2 lesson lessons- Two are
map reading

• Geography- Map reading- Casper or Wyoming
• Geography- Know the states
• For assessment- you can use a traditional test on
  one and an authentic assessment on the other
• This assignment is part of quiz 2 Turn in
  during quiz 2
• Theses lesson plans can count towards you unit-
  if they fit.
• Be ready to share with the class