Today's Learning Target: Students will be able to locate people, places, and things throughout the world. We're working on maps!
Circle: Describe your favorite vacation.
Circle Discussion: What is a learning target? What is the circle for learning targets? What is the learning target for today?
Individual Activity: Students will do individual research to decide which current world issue they would like to do a project on.
Individual Activity: Students will be going to this link. They will first go through the American states tutorial for five minutes. They will then play the beginner game.
Group Activity: Students will be working together in groups to create a list of ten important places around the world. Students will label world maps with these places and will also be writing blurbs on why these places are important.
Class Activity: We will be going over how to read longitude and latitude lines again as a class.
Individual Activity: Students will be given a list of places to find on the map using longitude and latitude lines. They will attempt to write down the correct answers for these places.
Exit Ticket: What is one important place you located on your map? What country is it in and what city/town? In your own words, why do you think this place is important? How comfortable are you with finding places on a map using absolute and relative location?
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