Tuesday, Aug. 27

Objectives

Students will acquire basic map-reading skills and define the importance of key geographic terms.

Students will be able to identify how geographers show information on a map.

Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Look up definitions for:

Absolute location, relative location and distortion

work on Unit 1 Vocabulary in GC

Intro to Ch. 1.3 – Map titles and symbols

Resources

Latitude and Longitude

Dazzling Design

Dazzling Design Directions

In Search of Gold article 

In Search of Gold note catcher

Geo Alive Ch. 1

Homework

Dazzling Design due- Aug 23

In Search of Gold – note catcher – due Aug. 23

Tell your parents about three elements of a map!