Mapping- Social Studies
Students started by creating a 'Mind Map' of all the things they knew about maps/mapping/directions
We then went through some essential basics of map components and practiced some N.E.S.W directional locations (North.East.South.West).
We read -"Mapping Penny's World" by Loreen Leedy. Afterwards we reviewed some of the symbols and parts of maps that were contained in the book.
We then did a "Mapping our World" activity, where students followed a checklist of directions in order to create a map. This also allowed me to assess students comprehension of the content we had just learned.
