Compass, key and grid lines: 3rd to 5th people & places
Map tools: the compass rose, the map key, latitude and longitude. A free 3rd to 5th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: map tools: the compass rose, the map key, latitude and longitude.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How can you find any place on Earth?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: compass, key and grid lines.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Compass and Map Key (https://peabody.kids/world/geography/geography-compass-and-map-key)
- Learn: Lines on the Globe (https://peabody.kids/world/geography/geography-lines-on-the-globe)
- Try: Quiz: maps and the world (https://peabody.kids/practice/hist/maps)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about compass, key and grid lines, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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