Lesson Plan Number & Title: Lesson Plan #4 Map Skills
Indiana Academic Standards: Social Studies
5.1.2 Examine accounts of early European explorations of North America including major land and water routes, reasons for exploration and the impact the exploration had.
Content Covered:
During this lesson, students will identify the continents, oceans, accurately draw a compass rose, and trace their explorer’s route. These skills will help them to examine the exploration in North America by looking at the major land and water routes used by the explorers.
Lesson Objectives:
• Students will identify the continents and oceans
• Students will accurately draw a compass rose
• Students will accurately …show more content…
It also allows students to connect the previously learned units of the regions of the United States and Native Americans, with the current unit of study. It is important for the students to understand the extent to which their explorer went to in order to either find gold, land, or convert others to Christianity. This extent includes the distance that their explorer traveled. The maps will help to create a visual to represent that notion.
INSTRUCTIONAL OVERVIEW
Introduction: (5 minutes)
When you or your parents are going to an unfamiliar place, what tools do you use to find that place? (Wait for responses; GPS, verbal directions, guessing, maps)
How do you think explorers were able to find their way? (Wait for students to respond)
One way they navigated was through the use of a map.
Today, you are going to use a map to identify the continents, oceans, accurately draw a compass rose, and trace your explorer’s route. Then you will meet with a partner to compare and contrast your explorer’s