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ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
Y'all my pirate unit is out! I am in love with this one and it comes with many centers. Get your common core aligned literature unit now!
Set of FREE printable world map choices with blank maps and labeled options for learning geography, countries, capitals, famous landmarks
Children will refer to a map, a key, and a compass rose to answer eight questions in this colorful map-reading worksheet.
Interactive Notebooks are a wonderful tool for providing hands-on experiences for learners. This Maps, Continents, and Landforms Interactive Notebook is no exception! The packet is easy to use for both student and teacher. ✅ Click HERE to SAVE 20% on this resource with the Maps, Continents, and Landforms unit and poster bundle! ✅ Click HERE to SAVE even more by buying ALL 15 Social Studies Interactive Notebooks and Mini Units in one Year-Long Bundle. Click on the PREVIEW button above to see all the great components of this resource! This engaging, hands-on resource includes foldables, worksheets, and activities for: 7 Continents 5 Major oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern) Landforms (22) Types of Maps (physical, political, weather, road) Latitude and Longitude A Unit Test and Answer Keys are also included for your convenience. This packet has two companion products available for separate purchase: • Continents, Oceans, and Maps Word Wall Cards • Landforms Word Wall Cards- Words, Definitions, and Pictures. You can find other helpful Social Studies Interactive Notebooks and Mini Units here: Maps, Continents, and Landforms Explorers of the World Road to the Revolutionary War The Revolutionary War The 13 Colonies (Geography) Colonial America - Daily Life Colonial America - Jobs and Trades Lewis and Clark Expedition The Oregon Trail The Gold Rush The Civil War - Events Leading to the War The Civil War The U.S. Constitution 3 Branches of U.S. Government Elections and the Voting Process Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases. I love that feedback! Also, follow me and be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 24 hours they are posted. It pays to follow me! As always, please contact me with any questions! Thank you so much, Shelly Rees
Use the free website, Mapmaker, to create maps and practice measuring with a digital ruler.
ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
map skills social studies unit for first grade, second grade, and third grade
Children use a compass rose to follow directions on a park map and a city map!
• ENHANCE HAND & EYE COORDINATION – Coloring involves a variety of actions including holding crayons or markers, choosing colors and sharpening colored pencils. All of these tasks help children build their hand and eye coordination.• IMPROVE FOCUS & CONCENTRATION – How many times did your parents tell you to stay within the lines? Coloring encourages spatial awareness and helps kids focus on boundaries and lines. This color your own geography project will also improve their concentration and science skills.• LEARN & DEVELOP LANGUAGE – Coloring is more than just a fun activity for kids! Letting your child color, scribble and doodle is also the perfect time to practice naming primary colors and to teach them about other hues of colors. Discuss landforms as they color, and help them learn and recognize more in the world around them!Product Description:Use your own markers to have students color and identify different landforms. This activity is perfect for your geography lessons and helps build map skills and provides teachers with a formative assessment on a student's understanding of landforms. Size: 22 x 17Quantity: 30Material: Paper© OTC
Then, we used a little total physical response to give my firsties a better visual on how the size of the places we live are related. They *loved* this
Back to School is right around the corner for us and I am SUPER excited to kick of this school year with some fun, hands-on and engaging resources for The
My daughter has one of the best kindergarten teachers imaginable. She is caring, patient, and so imaginative. Her activities seem to seamlessly flow together, integrating all content areas. In short, she is amazing! One of the activities, that I really loved, was her newest addition to the blocks center. My daughter came home and told me that their "Blocks Center is really rocking the house!" That is high praise coming from my baby. A few days later, I got to go in and see this "rocking" center for myself. It really is amazing. It's so amazing that I decided to put my own spin on it and share it with you! The center has pieces of felt (or foam) for different symbols on a map. All the pieces are hand cut and are just a quick shape in different colors. The center that I made includes: rivers, lakes, roads, houses, bushes, and trees. You can get a free copy of the map key here. Print out the key and cut out felt, then you have all you need to make "Interactive Maps"! Cut out some pictures from a magazine and label them for specific places in the community. Simple and fun! The part I love the most about this activity is that it can include math, writing, science, social studies, and so much more! I wanted to include specific places in my version, so I went through my clip art and whipped up a few. I love how every map will be different and each child's personality can shine through. When I started making our version at home, there were only straight roads. This created a lot of protesting from my kids. Thus, a variety of roads were created. They were right, it does make the maps more interesting and realistic. As we played with the concept, I added task cards. This will allow kids to create maps with a model. It is really great for kids that have a difficult time starting an activity without direction. Sometimes, open ended play seems to overwhelm these children. Adding task cards with directions, allows these children to work from a task. AND task cards give kids practice reading numerals and using one-to-one correspondence. I also made blank task cards, so that partners could create tasks for each other. It's more fun to do a friend's activity, than one provided by the teacher. Why not capitalize on their enthusiasm for "being the teacher"? Adding onto the idea of "being the teacher", I love adding in partner games. Each child can have a turn I love adding a recording sheet to the activity, because it holds each child accountable for their learning and provides a physical record that is sent home to their parents. One thing I so appreciate about my daughter's teacher is that every center has some written or physical component that comes home. I am able to infer from the directions, or completed project, what my daughter is doing that day. I am able to ask her more specific questions about her day, after looking over the work that comes home. It allows me to get more meaningful information about my daughter's learning that day. I love having different recording sheets for the same activity. It can change the whole focus of the activity and it makes it very easy to differentiate. I hope you found some easy ideas to use with your kids. I love that you can just add felt and open up a whole new world... Get your kids excited about maps and the parts of their community with these hands on activities. Make your own, or find mine here. Head over to my blog, Differentiation Station Creations, to find some more activities to add your Blocks Center! Until next time,
These fantastic activities are definitely the way to go.
Download this 12-page map worksheet packet for 1st-3rd graders. A great addition to any unit study!
Teaching 2nd grade map skills in your classroom this year? Grab this Map Skills Grade 2 Activities resource for ready to use worksheets and lessons that are fun and engaging! This 2nd grade map skills unit covers a variety of map topics such as map legends and symbols, parts of a map, map making and more! It is perfect for use with Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students as they learn about maps! With 18 worksheets, these Map Skills Grade 2 Activities are sure to engage your young learners in all things map related. Map Skills Grade 2 Activities includes: 18 map skills worksheets Answer keys Teacher notes for using these 2nd grade map skills activities Success criteria so that you can easily assess each student’s work 2nd Grade Map Skills lessons in this unit cover: Parts of a map What is a map? The Globe (includes information on equator) What is the Compass Rose? Directions on a map Using a compass rose Using directions on a map What is a Legend? What are symbols? Making legends and symbols Reading symbols on a map Reading directions on a map Reading and following directions on a map (Mapping a route) Who uses maps and why are maps important to people in the community Making maps (Blanks included) Success Criteria for making a map With topics like “What is a map?” and “Using a compass rose” your K-2nd grade students will be able to master 2nd grade map skills with ease! Simply pick the topics you want to target, print the Map Skills Grade 2 Activities and go! ❤️ See What Teachers Are Saying ❤️ My students loved this mapping unit. My class unexpectedly had to go online right before our testing week. I was worried that we wouldn't be able to work on these skills but luckily this really helped! Reading a map is a skill that is often overlooked at the Kindergarten level. But with a resource like this it has made it fun and more like a game. Thank you for the resource, it has been a great help to introduce reading and finding out information from a map much easier. ☟ MORE FUN AND ENGAGING SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCES ☟ Community Helpers 1st Grade Social Studies Responsibility Unit Canadian Symbols Worksheets Follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers and get notified of new resources and sales! Let’s Connect: Stop and Smell the Crayons Website Find me on Instagram and Facebook Terms: Copyright © Laura Merritt – Stop and Smell the Crayons (TpT) All rights reserved by the author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.
Free printable and digital world map activity worksheet and quiz. Black outline map included for students to locate and label the continents and oceans.
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
The Geography Unit Combined.
Set of FREE printable world map choices with blank maps and labeled options for learning geography, countries, capitals, famous landmarks
The Boy Who Loved Maps Lesson Plan 1st and 2nd Grade is ideal for teaching Map Skills, Cardinal Directions, Spatial Reasoning, Geography skills Printable and Digital Format This resource includes: Learning Objectives Pre-Reading Activity During Reading Comprehension Questions Neighborhood Map Activity Home Map Activity School Map Activity Reading a Map Activity Seating Chart Activity Description & Plan/Thing Activity Sequencing Activity Cardinal Directions Activity Following Directions Map Activity New Vocabulary This resource is great for: Teaching map skills Teaching reading comprehension skills Teaching inferencing Teaching figurative language Teaching cardinal directions Teaching social studies Similar Resources and Skills: The Duck Who Didn't Like Water by Small Lesson Plan ************************************************************************************* • Be sure to FOLLOW MY STORE for NEW PRODUCTS AND SALES >> click here • Don't forget to leave feedback . You will receive TPT credits to be used towards future purchases! Be the first to find out about my new resources by Joining my Email List, click HERE! ⭐⭐⭐ Find me on Pinterest ⭐⭐⭐ Visit My Blog: https://kidsread.wordpress.com/ Happy Teaching! Mrs. Lena, M.Ed.
This Location and Map Skills Social Studies Unit teaches students about North American landforms, urban, rural, and suburban communities, grid maps, and
Enhance geography skills with FREE printable 7 Continents and Oceans worksheets for elementary students: maps, facts & more!
Learn About the 7 Continents! Exploring the 7 Continents has never been more exciting! It’s a Small World Continent Study is filled with over 35 activities to help your students gain a greater understanding of the seven continents. This 130+ page unit is filled with great resources, posters, printables, activities, and projects that will open […]
A collection of location and mapping worksheets. These resources support the teaching of cardinal and ordinal directions, grid referencing, prepositional words, reading legends and more.
