Grade(s):
3rd Grade
Subject(s):
All
Preschool
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
Middle School (6-8)
Kindergarten
1st Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
High School (9-12)
All
Art
Business
Computer Science
Counseling
ELA
Math
Library Media Services
International Language
Industrial Technology
Family and Consumer Science
Health
Music Education
STEAM
Special Education
Performing Arts
Physical Education
Visual Arts
Technology
Science
Social Studies
PEAK / Gifted
Summer School
Title:
Mapping Missouri
Timing:
Approximately 3-4 weeks
Driving Question:
How do maps tell our story?
Project Description:
Students will learn how to read and construct maps. Students will learn how maps tell us a lot about what places were like in the past and how the changes have impact communities. Students will write a personal narrative that accompanies the map they have created of their community, neighborhood, or home.
Final Product(s):
Students will share their constructed map and narrative at a family showcase.
Essential Standards:
EG.5 Knowledge of major elements of GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY and analysis and their relationship to changes in society and the environment.
(5A)Reading and constructing maps.
Read and construct historical and current maps.
(5B)Understanding the concept of location to make predictions and solve problems.
(5C)Understanding the concept of place.
(5D)Relationships within places Human-Environment Interactions
(5E)Understanding relationships between and among places.
(5F)Understanding relationships between and among regions.
W.3.A. Apply research process to:
a. generate a list of subject appropriate topics
b. create an individual question about a topic
f. take simple notes in own words and sort evidence into provided categories or organizer
Writing: Revise & Edit
W.1.C. Reread, revise and edit drafts with assistance from adults/peers, to:
a. develop and strengthen writing by revising
• main idea
• sequence (ideas)
• details/facts (from sources, when appropriate)
• word choice (related to the topic)
• sentence structure
• transitions
• audience and purpose
b. edit for language conventions
Potential Community Outreach:
-Guest speaker from the county archives
-Long-time community residents and experts
-Family and friends attending grade level showcase of learning.
Teacher Reflection:
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