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Mapping Skills with Google Earth Gr. PK-2

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Look Inside · 10 pages

Critical thinking chart linking Bloom's levels 1–6 to six chapters, How to Read a Map through Map the World
Skills chart in the teacher pages
Table of contents: teacher guide, six chapters, crossword, word search, quiz, answer key, maps and mini posters
Contents page listing all sections
Assessment rubric rating understanding, responses to the text and application at Levels 1–4, with next steps
Teacher rubric for grading student work
Teacher guide on how the resource is organized: reading passages, Google Earth activities and picture cues
Introduction in the teacher guide
Bloom's Taxonomy six-level pyramid and vocabulary list: atlas, cardinal directions, compass rose, legend and more
Bloom's overview and unit vocabulary
Before-reading page: classroom position questions, then matching words like symbols and legend to definitions
Before You Read page, How to Read a Map chapter
Reading passage part 1 on maps, symbols, legends and color codes, with a color-coded neighborhood map
Part 1 of the How to Read a Map passage
Reading passage part 2: cardinal directions, compass rose, the 'Never Eat Soggy Wheat' hint and a Google Earth task
Part 2 of the How to Read a Map passage
After-reading page: match House, Church, Tree and School to map symbols, then fill in blanks on cardinal directions
After You Read page 1 of the first chapter
After-reading questions on why symbols matter and how legends help, plus a local map list and a treasure map to draw
After You Read page 2 of the first chapter
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About This Product

Mapping Skills with Google Earth Gr. PK-2:

An invaluable teaching resource specifically designed for educators teaching map-readability to early learners. The resource provides basic principles of map reading and prepares students for advanced studies.

Initial Applications:

  • This product begins by guiding students to create a treasure map, teaching them about cardinal directions, symbols and legends.
  • A practical exercise is introduced where students plot their own classroom layout including element such as title, compass rose, legend etc., helping them grasp the practical applicability of maps.

Beyond Preliminary Activities:

  • The learning extends to terrain mapping using cardinal directions where students sketch their own route school plotting against visually recognizable landmarks.
  • Educators can challenge learners further by introducing grid lines via Google Earth™ within localized parameters - hereby bringing abstract concepts of Geography into a tangible format that's familiar to the student's real world spaces like streets or schools.
Towards Comprehensive Global Awareness:

Inevitably incorporating global elements; showing your target continent through Google Earth™ allows for broader learning experiences facilitating location identification tasks in terms world sub-regions such as countries and lakes plus surrounding oceans too.

  1. Making use of challenges that involve jotting down coordinates of world’s seven continents along with four oceans enables crucial global positioning system exercises aiding prolonged retention while aligning content delivered with state standards & Bloom's Taxonomy criteria.
Auxiliary Teacher Resources (in PDF format):
  • Crossword puzzles aligning geography terms ideal for individual homework assignment or small group exercises;
  • Word searches testing vocabulary retention;
  • Comprehension quizzes assessing theoretically assimilated knowledge;
  • Answer keys enabling instant reference guides.

In conclusion, Mapping Skills with Google Earth Gr. PK-2 offers a comprehensive, practical and dynamic teaching resource in social studies education focusing extensively on geographical understanding.

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