Overview and Background: Unit: Me On The Map

1^st Grade : Cheney USD 268

Interdisciplinary. Language Arts. Mathematics. Social Studies. : Interdisciplinary. Language Arts. Mathematics. Social Studies. : History. Social Studies.

Cheney : Grades 1 - 1

Title:	Me On The Map
Topics:	Directions, locations, community
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Date Revised:

Other Designers: Julie Balestracci, Marilyn Keller, Meg Rice

Summary:
Students will create maps of their classroom and Main Street to increase their understanding that a map represents real places.

Print Materials Needed:
Me On The Map, by Joan Sweeney

Resources:
Teacher made sketch of the local Main Street.

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS       1
Title:	Geography
Standard(s):	Indicator 4 Uses and makes maps of classroom, school, and neighborhood to locate familiar places.

Understandings:
user	Maps represent places that are real.

Essential Questions:
User	1. Why do we need maps? 2. How do maps help us? 3. What are maps?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Directions (N, S, W, E) on a map.

Verbally give directions to get from one place to another.

Identify landmarks in their home and school to assist with giving directions.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will draw and label a map of their classroom, including a hidden object. They will then exchange their map with someone in a different 1^st Grade classroom, who will try to find the object using the directions.

Task/Prompt: Map Drawing of Classroom

Type: Performance Task – Treasure Map

Resources:
Plain paper and pencil

Student Directions:
You have been asked to create a map to help another 1^st Grader local a hidden treasure. Draw a map of your classroom and label it with the directions. Then hide your object. Now write directions that will help another 1^st Grader and find the object. The directions should start at the door of your classroom. You should use north, south, east and west and the number of steps to guide the searcher to your treasure. Be sure to put your name on the map.

After you have completed your map, you will go to a different 1^st Grade classroom. You will be given a map of that classroom. Follow the directions at the bottom of the map to find the hidden object. After you have found the object with the map creator’s name on it, you may eat the treasure.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
KWL activity with the class on maps and directions.

H
Students will take a bus tour of their community, taking pictures with a digital camera. They will stop at the "City Limits" sign and look for the line and then discuss that the boundary lines are not usually marked. Upon their return, they will create a large map of the city, placing the digital pictures where they belong as a group. Using a video tour of the city, each student will glue graphics of the businesses & buildings on a small scale map at their desks.

Richard – check on 5^th or Multimedia Class to make video.

E
1. Teach directions on a map.
2. Teach left and right.
3. One a large sheet of paper, the students will make a map of the classroom, placing paper cut-outs of different room objects on the paper where they belong. They will label the map.
4. Each child will draw and label a treasure map of the room. When the kids are not there, the teacher will hide a treat on the "X" of each treasure map. The next day the kids will exchange maps and try to find the treasure.
5. Each student will draw and label a map of his/her own bedroom.
6. Students will create directions, using left and right to tell everyone how to go from one place in the room to another. Then a student will be blindfolded and the creator will give the blindfolded student the directions.


R
In pairs, students will explain the map of their room, explaining the directions and labeled objects.

E
Treasure Map Assessment

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