Campus: Godwin Elementary Author(s)

community, state, and nation. The student is expected to:

1.2B Identify historical figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and

Richard Allen, and other individuals who have exhibited individualism and inventiveness.

1.5A Create and use a simple map such as maps of the home, classroom, school and community.

1.5B Locate the community, Texas, and the United States on maps and globes.

1.6: The student understands various physical and human characteristics. The student is expected to:

1.6A: Identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water,

natural resources, and weather.

1.6B: Identify examples of and uses for natural resources in the community, state, and nation.

1.6C: Identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as shelter, clothing, food, and

activities are based upon geographic location.

1.8 The student understands the concepts of goods and services. The student is expected to:

1.8A Identify examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community.

1.9: The student understands the condition of not being able to have all the goods and services one

wants. The student is expected to:

1.9A: Identify examples of people wanting more than they can have.

1.17: The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety

of valid sources, including electronic technology. The student is expected to:

1.17B: Obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid visual sources such as pictures, symbols,

electronic media, maps, literature, and artifacts.

1.18: The student communicates in oral, visual, and written forms. The student is expected to:

1.18A: Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences.

1.18B Create and interpret visual and written material.

1.19A use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options,

consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the

effectiveness of the solution.

1.19B Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information,

generate options, predict outcomes, take action to implement a decision, and reflect on the

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  The solar system is made up of planets. Point to and name each of the planets. Identify Earth as our home planet. If we were in outer space looking at the planets Earth would be shaped like a round ball. 
  
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  Why doesn’t it look like a round ball in the picture? - The picture is two dimensional. Display the piece of paper shaped like a circle. This circle is two dimensional. Our Earth is round like a ball. It is three dimensional.  
  

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  What do the blue parts represent? (water) What do the other parts, the green and brown parts, represent?  (land)
  
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  What are the masses of land called? (continents)
  
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  How many continents are there? Count them. (seven)
  
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  What are between most of the continents? (oceans)
  
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  Which one is the continent we live on? Point to North America.
  
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  Point to the United States, Texas, and your local community.
  

Create a Venn Diagram with students for maps and globes.

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  Globe__Butcher_paper_for_venn_diagram'>Picture from solar system
  
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  Globe
  
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  Butcher paper for venn diagram
  

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  Maps and Globes Cloze Activity
  

Examine the map as a class looking for mountains, valleys, coastline, deserts, plains, rivers, and lakes.

Locate the map key with students and discuss what it shows us.

Display a second map that shows these same features, but that is enough different to where you can compare and contrast how things are displayed

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  Two maps of the United states that include a key
  

 Explain that the words North and South tell direction.

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  Directions help tell where something is located.
  
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   What other direction words do we use? (East and West)
  
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  These words are known as the cardinal directions. They are north, south, east, and west.
  

Display a map of the Earth and point to the compass rose.  Students will access prior learning and tell the purpose of the compass rose. The compass rose is a tool used to tell where something is located or give directions. Ask questions that will allow students to use the cardinal directions found on the compass rose in their answers.  Ask questions such as these:

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  What ocean is west of the United States? (Pacific)
  
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  What ocean is east of the United States? (Atlantic)
  
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  Is Antarctica north or south on the globe? (south)
  
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  What state is east of Texas? (Louisiana)
  

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  Globe
  
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  Compass (phone application)
  

Demonstrate how to find landforms and bodies of water in and around the local community and other areas of Texas. Look for: a continent, an ocean, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, deserts, the coast, lakes, rivers, and ponds.

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  What is a map?
  
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  What is a globe?
  
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  How is land indicated on a map or globe?
  
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  How is water indicated on a map or globe?
  
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  How do maps help us communicate about the physical characteristics of place?
  
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  How does the compass rose help determine direction?
  
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  How does a map key help determine specific landforms?
  
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  What landforms and bodies of water are found on Earth?
  

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  Google Maps
  

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  Using a blank map of a community, add physical characteristics to the map, including landforms, bodies of water, and natural resources. Exchange maps with a classmate and use social studies terms to ask and answer questions and explain the physical characteristics of the place. Use cardinal directions to tell about the relative location of characteristics on the map using cardinal directions. (1.4A; 1.5A, 1.6A; 1.17B; 1.18A)
  

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   Students create their maps.
   
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   Students exchange maps with a partner.
   

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  Use social studies terms to ask and answer questions.
  
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  Explain the physical characteristics of the place.
  
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  Use cardinal directions to tell about the relative location of characteristics on the maps using cardinal directions.
  

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  There is a lake in the ____ part of the map.
  
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  Mountains are _____ of the lake.
  

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  Blank map of community