More About Maps

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More About Maps

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• Grade 3-5

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Learner Expectation

• Content Standard 3.0
• Geography enables the students to see, understand
  and appreciate the web of relationships between
  people, places, and environments. Students will
  use the knowledge, skills, and understanding of
  concepts within the six essential elements of
  geography world in spatial terms, places and
  regions, physical systems, human systems,
  environment and society, and the uses of
  geography.
• Learning Expectations
• 3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and
  other geographic representations, tools, and
  technologies to acquire, process and report
  information from a spatial perspective.

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In this activity you will

• Study the following map. Then write a paragraph
  giving directions to your house from the church.
  Use the compass rose, scale of miles, and the
  legend in your paragraph.

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In this activity you will

• Start with this topic sentence
• When you come to my house, follow these
  directions.

MAP
5
N
6
Your House
E
W
S
7
5
Legend
Highway
House
Lake
School
Store
100
0
25
50
Church
Scale of Miles