Planning a road trip
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/roadtrip.html
A lesson plan for grades 3–5 Social Studies
This lesson reviews latitude and longitude and asks students to find the latitude and longitude for several United States cities. The students create “road trip quizzes” to test their classmates’ ability to figure out locations. This lesson is found on the Xpeditions website from National Geographic.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 3
- Goal 4: The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
- Objective 4.02: Use appropriate source maps to locate communities.
Grade 4
- Goal 1: The learner will apply the five themes of geography to North Carolina and its people.
- Objective 1.01: Locate, in absolute and relative terms, major landforms, bodies of water and natural resources in North Carolina.
Grade 5
- Goal 1: The learner will apply key geographic concepts to the United States and other countries of North America.
- Objective 1.01: Describe the absolute and relative location of major landforms, bodies of water,and natural resources in the United States and other countries of North America.
