Maps, Maps, Maps

What Types of Maps Can We See?

Jessica Phillips

Content Area: Social Studies

Grade Level: 1St grade

Summary: The students will learn about all different kinds of maps. The maps that the students will learn are the globe, world, United States, state, county, rivers, and maps of oceans.

Learning Objective: The learner will recognize the difference in maps by interacting with a teacher created PowerPoint with 100% accuracy.

Geography

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:

Content Standard: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.

Accomplishments: 1.3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.

Accomplishments, cont’d.Recognize that maps and globes are

representations or models of specific places. Locate their home, neighborhood, and

school on a visual representation. Use map symbols and legends to identify

locations and directions. Interpret symbols that represent various

forms of geographic data and use these Symbols to identify locations and directions.

Globe

On a globe, you can see the whole world, even the water. The globe is round

World Map

On a world map, you see the whole world too. This map is flat.

United States

On a map of United States, you can see the United States. It has 50 states.

State Map

This is a state map. Our state is Tennessee. Is the state round? Is it longer than it is wide?

County Map

This is Madison County. Do you know anyone who lives in the county?

River Map

This a river map of the State of Tennessee. Here is the river that runs closet it to where you live. Its name is Tennessee river.

Ocean Map

This is the map of all the oceans in the world. What two oceans are around the United States?

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/maps.html

http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxustn.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/tennessee/

http://www.primarygames.com/socstudies/50states/index.htm