Day 10: Use the Map
Objective: To use map skills to read and follow the map.
MATERIALS
Teacher: Previous Day's Chart Paper (of map), copies of map (of chart paper map that was made as a class)
Students: Folders
Lesson:
Differentiation:
For struggling students: Get back in pairs (from Day 9 lesson) to read the map together.
For advanced students: Ask them to take notes of additional symbols that should be added.
Assessment: Check off that in their notebook they wrote how map skills helped them in the activity and how they could be helpful (provide direction, clues by symbols, etc...for a new student
Resources:
Using previous resources.
References:
Map Lesson Plan. (n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2013, from
http://www.access2academics.com/Map%20Skills%20Lesson%20Plans%20-%2010%20day%20Unit.pdf
Objective: To use map skills to read and follow the map.
MATERIALS
Teacher: Previous Day's Chart Paper (of map), copies of map (of chart paper map that was made as a class)
Students: Folders
Lesson:
- Ask students to take out their folders
- Review key terms
- Take map that was made yesterday (Day 9) back out
- Give students copies of that map (that you made ahead of time)
- Ask students to line up and go back to bus loop
- Read the map with the students and see if it can accurately take you back to the classroom
- Stop to notice symbols
- Stop to notice cardinal directions
- Conclude back in the classroom, asking how the map skills helped them find the classroom and how it could be useful for say a new student in class
- Write this in their notebook to be checked off
Differentiation:
For struggling students: Get back in pairs (from Day 9 lesson) to read the map together.
For advanced students: Ask them to take notes of additional symbols that should be added.
Assessment: Check off that in their notebook they wrote how map skills helped them in the activity and how they could be helpful (provide direction, clues by symbols, etc...for a new student
Resources:
Using previous resources.
References:
Map Lesson Plan. (n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2013, from
http://www.access2academics.com/Map%20Skills%20Lesson%20Plans%20-%2010%20day%20Unit.pdf