Contour maps with DOGSTAILS
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A lesson plan for grades 6–7 Social Studies
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In this Xpeditions lesson, students create topographic maps and explore vital features and information such as date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, and sources—or DOGSTAILS, for short. Activities in this lesson engage students in hands-on tasks.
Students will:
- make a clay model of a mountain and then use it to create a topographic map;
- and verbally analyze the spatial distributions and patterns shown on the resulting topographic map.
Xpeditions provides detailed directions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment activities, discussion questions, and links to necessary web resources.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
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.
