Where in the   World is ...

Part 1

Standards

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Activities 

Assessment 

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Using a Winnie the Pooh theme the students will learn mapping skills to help  Winnie the Pooh find his way home in a two part lesson.  Pooh being a bear of little brains needs a lot of help from the students. Part 1 will deal with using mapping skills to locate people and places in their school,    neighborhood, and community.  Part 2 will deal with learning mapping skills dealing with our continent, oceans, major rivers, Great Lakes, and mountain ranges. 

Student Lesson Page 

Standards Addressed       
Second Grade

Social Science                                                
2.2 Student demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

1.  Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).

 

Instructional Objectives Part 1 

  1. Students will be able to make and use maps pertaining to their school, neighborhood, and their community.

  2. Students will be able to plot locations on a grid map.

  3. Students will be able to create  a small group 3-D map of their community.

  4. Students will be able to locate and label will know sites in their greater community.

Student Activities   Part 1       [IMAGE]
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Introductory Activity

    After reading Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins, students will walk around the school taking digital photos of the people and places of the school community.  They will write a group book using interactive writing with the pictures of their walk.  The book I Went Walking by Sue Williams could also be used.

Enabling Activities
A PowerPoint presentation of our school community will then be made from the  book by taking digital photos of the pages of the book.

Using disposable cameras, students will have a rotating homework assignment of having a parent take a picture of them in front of their home.  *You'll want more than one so that the process won't take forever.

Using the web site Yahoo! Maps as a class, students will locate their school and view it from close and far range on maps.  
  Students will then enter their address on Yahoo! Maps, create and print a map, and trace their route to and from school.

Student will then create they own maps, showing their route to and/or from school and their home.

While viewing the PowerPoint presentation, Winnie the Rambles Around San Diego County.  Using a letter-number grid map students will be able to follow Pooh around their community.

Bus Tour of their community and/or Teacher made video of their community. Either of these would be good for the students to get and idea of location of places within their community. Santee also has a virtual tour that students may visit on their own.

Walking field trips can be taken to places such as the Post Office, library, grocery store, park, etc. can be taken.  Digital/regular photos can be taken to make a class community atlas. Students will locate the trips on a classroom map.

The Post Office trip is a great opportunity to mail off class   "Flat Stanleys".

Have students work in small groups to make maps of the sites visited.

As their are working with mapping skills about their community it would be a good time to learn the history of their community.  History of Santee Area

 

Culminating Activity Part 1
Make a 3D map of their community.

Assessment Part 1
Students will be assessed by their post test and culminating project.

Part 2

Standards 2

Objectives 2

Activities 2

Assessment 2

Resources

Standards 2

2.  Label from memory a simple map of the North America continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges.   Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.

 Instructional Objectives Part 2

 

Student Activities   Part 2  

 

Culminating Activity Part 2

Assessment Part 2

Results
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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

Introductory Activity
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Enabling Activity
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Culminating Activity
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Rio Seco School 

Santee, California

                                                               

Last Revised August 02, 2000