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Skills Learning Targets
What students must be able to do:
- Students must be able to identify and locate the 7 continents and 4 major oceans.
- Students must be able to identify their address, including the town, state, country, and continent.
- Students will use a map key to identify places on maps and globes.
- They will identify and locate places using cardinal and intermediate directions.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/linksa/direct.html
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=8&act=1
- Students will label a compass rose using the cardinal and intermediate directions and use it to locate places on a map or globe.
- Students will measure the distance between 2 points using scale.
- Students will identify the equator, Prime Meridian, and International Date Line on a map or globe.About: http://www.lat34north.com/cities/citieslongitude.cfm (difficult reading)
- Students will locate the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
- Students will identify the location of places on a globe using hemispheres
- Students will identify and use latitude and longitude to locate or identify places on a map or globe.
Resources:http://www.kidsgeo.com/ - geography games for children
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/GeographyGames/Geospy
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/geography.htm
http://www.kathimitchell.com/geog.htm - many geography resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfpuN2XQ4f4 - Video naming all the countries of the world.
http://www.mcwdn.org/MAPS&GLOBES/DirectionsQuiz.html - Quiz on geography terms, etc.
Google maps