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Latitude, longitude, and mapmaking

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A lesson plan for grades 6–7 Social Studies

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This lesson requires students to review the concepts of latitude and longitude and to use these concepts to create maps of different countries on the computer. They will conclude by discussing the reasons why it is important to understand latitude and longitude and by creating quizzes in which other students can locate mystery places that they map on the computer.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Dance Arts Education (2001)

  • Objective 7.00:

    • Social Studies (2003)

    Grade 6

    • Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
      • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes,charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.

    Grade 7

    • Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
      • Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.