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Maps and Globes for First Grade

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Do things ever seem so simple to you as a teacher that you think, how do I even teach that? Maps and globes are some of those concepts for me as a first grade teacher. I often think, wow that’s going to be so easy, UNTIL I start doing some digging into my first grade standards and realize that there’s a lot more to it.

Here’s what first grade students should know about maps and globes:

  • Describe their location using spatial terms
  • Identify and use cardinal directions
  • Create simple maps
  • Explain the difference in maps and globes

You can read more about the other elements of First Grade Geography HERE.

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Describing Location for First Grade

Did you know that first grade students should be able to describe their location using spatial terms? What? Are you wondering what spatial terms even are?

Spatial terms are easiest to teach to young learners using prepositions: behind, near, beside. These are easily demonstrated using objects in the classroom. Then you can go bigger and start describing your location in the school, the town, etc.

First grade students should also be able to identify and use the four cardinal directions:

North, East, South, West

We all remember the cute little phrases that we learned in school, Never Eat Soggy Waffles, and so on.

A super easy way to help students learn their cardinal directions is by labeling the directions in your classroom with N, E, S and W. You can reference these by saying check the anchor chart on the “North wall”.

Creating Maps in First Grade

A really fun geography skill for first grade students is learning how to create and use simply maps such as a map of their home, classroom, school or community.

These maps can be as detailed or as simple as you want them to be. But you will be surprised how much help your first graders might need in making them. A lot of first grade students struggle with spatial reasoning and being able to see something and draw it on paper.

This is a great activity to do together once as a class, then you can put it in your writing station. Have students draw a map of something they are familiar with and then have them write about it afterwards.

This is a super easy way to go cross curricular between social studies and writing and save you some instructional time in your day!

Maps throughout the year

Creating a simple map is a great activity at the beginning of the year to help your first-grade students get used to a new classroom or a new school building.

Drawing a map of the playground is an excellent way to establish playground expectations.

Creating a map is also a great activity during October (National Fire Safety Month). Students can draw their map of their fire safety plan.

You could also have students draw a map of their house for Santa Claus at Christmas time.

Before you leave for Summer, you can have students draw a map of a road trip they want to take over Summer break.

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Location to Self (Map Style)

It’s never too early to help our students understand where they are “on a map”.

I like to start small and go bigger. I like to pull up Google Maps when we start talking about “me on the map”. We find our current location at school. Then we zoom out and find our community. Then we zoom out and find our state. Then we zoom out and find our country.

I feel like this is such a good visual for students to see how small we really are in relation to the world around us.

And then just for fun, we reverse the process as we zoom back in. We go from world, to country, to state, to community and back to our school.

We continue the process while we are doing animal research because National Geographic Kids has excellent maps for showing animal locations.

This is another great time to go cross-curricular and tie social studies into writing by having students write about their favorite place! Encourage them to use spatial and cardinal directions in their writing. 

Maps v. Globes

As we talk about the differences in community and country, this is a great time to discuss the differences in a map and a globe.

If you have a physical map and a globe, that’s the best way to show students the physical difference between the two.

A map is typically a flat piece of paper, whereas a globe is a 3D model of the Earth.

You can talk about the functions of each.

A map is smaller and much easier to carry from place to place.

But a globe gives you a 3d view of the Earth as it actually is.

It’s important for students to understand that both a map and a globe are true representations of the Earth in manageable sizes to help people learn about and understand the world around them.

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Map Skills Thematic Unit Plan for First Grade

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The theme of this unit is map skills. This series of lessons will address cardinal directions, how to use different features of maps, and show students how to make their own maps. The following comprehensive unit includes objectives, instructional steps, activities, and assessments. You only need to prepare the materials.

Use these five engaging lessons to teach your first graders everything they need to know about maps.

Cardinal Directions

Time: 30 minutes

Following this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Identify the cardinal directions.
  • Explain how directions are used.
  • Blank KWL chart
  • Real examples of maps
  • Compass and compass rose
  • Globe (optional)
  • North, South, East, and West cards placed on the correct walls (keep these up for the entire unit!)
  • Student journals
  • Cardinal directions

Lesson Introduction

Ask students what they know about maps including how they are used, where they might be found, and what they have on them. Call students up to write their answers to these on a KWL chart as well as fill in what they do not know and what they want to know. Then, show students several real examples of maps.

Instruction

  • Have a student come up and point out where north, south, east, and west are on the compass rose. Introduce this tool as a compass. Note that the directions are often abbreviated. Show a compass rose and explain that this is what a compass looks like on paper.
  • "They can be used to help anyone know where they are going no matter where they are. Directions help us get anywhere we need to go. "
  • "Even sailors in the middle of the ocean can find their way using directions. Turn and tell your neighbor another type of person that might need to use directions," (e.g. truck drivers, parents, pilots).
  • "Compasses always point north toward the 'top' of the world." If using a globe, show students the top of the world. "They use magnets in the Earth to tell which way is north. When you know where North is, you can always find the other directions."
  • Pair students up.
  • Point out the cardinal directions around the room. Ask students to use their bodies to point toward each one as you say it.
  • Tell students that they should choose objects that are against the four walls (intercardinal directions will not be addressed in this unit).
  • Do this until both students reach the object, then switch.
  • Have students spin around a few times before starting so they're not just walking in a straight line.
  • Allow approximately 10 minutes for this activity, five minutes per student.

Differentiation

Have students tell their partners the object they chose and work together to create directions to reach it.

Have students sit at their desks. Instruct them to each label the cardinal directions around the outside of their paper (in their journals) then draw an object that is north of their position.

Mapping a Route

Time: 25 minutes

  • Use cardinal directions to map a route from one place to another.
  • A very basic map of your school with cardinal directions, your class, the cafeteria, and specials classes labeled for each student
  • Colored pencils or crayons
  • Printed maps from your school to a nearby local landmark such as a park or grocery store for each student—circle school and landmark

Have students play "Simon Says" using cardinal directions (e.g. "Simon says to take three steps west.") to refresh their memory.

Take your class on a short trip through the school. Point out all specials classes and the cafeteria.

  • Answer: "Directions help us get anywhere we need to go." Have students repeat this to the person next to them and tell a time they or someone they know used directions to get where they needed to go.
  • Define a map as a drawing of an area that shows where important things are. "The area a map shows can be very large like the Earth or small like our classroom." Ask students for examples of maps in their lives.
  • To the tune of "Bingo": A map will show us where to go if we follow its directions. North, south, east, and west. North, south, east, and west. North, south, east, and west—these are cardinal directions."
  • Pass out coloring utensils. Students will need a different color for every special plus one for the cafeteria.
  • Have students come up and help you map the routes to each special and the cafeteria.

To make the following assessment more accessible, ask students to use arrows of a certain color for each cardinal direction to show direction on the map instead of letters.

Pass out the map you have printed from the school to a local landmark. Have students first draw a compass rose somewhere on the map then draw the route from the school to the landmark. Students should label each turn with its direction (e.g. An "E" when traveling east). This can be completed as homework or in-class practice.

Time: 30-40 minutes

  • Explain the purpose of a map key.
  • Franklin Is Lost by Paulette Bourgeois— digital version available to borrow through Internet Archive Digital Library (create a free account to use)
  • A roughly drawn sketch of your school playground with nothing labeled
  • Example of a map with a map key

Read Franklin Is Lost before starting this lesson, perhaps as a Morning Meeting activity.

  • Discuss why Franklin got lost while playing hide-and-seek. "What have we been learning about that would've helped Franklin find his way? Do you think that we could make a map for Franklin so that he doesn't get lost again?"
  • "What could I add to this map to make it easier to understand?" Explain that a map key , which uses symbols and colors to tell what a place or object is, would help.
  • Show students a map with a key and demonstrate how to use it.
  • Sing the map song from "Mapping a Route" lesson.
  • Draw a map of the classroom while students watch. Label the door, whiteboard, your desk, etc. on a map key. Use colors and symbols.
  • "Turn and tell the person next to you one important place or object Franklin saw."
  • "What place should we label extra clearly for Franklin?" Students should say the woods because he was specifically told not to go there.
  • As a class, draw a map for Franklin that only includes the path from Franklin's house to Bear's house. Do not draw a key.
  • Tell them to clearly label each place or object in a map key (e.g. Use a small tree symbol to represent the forest).
  • They can use your already-started map for reference and duplicate what you've done.

Have students add one more feature to their maps and label it in their map keys. This can be another character, object, or place that was mentioned such as Bear, the water under the bridge, or the logs and bushes in the woods.

Making Map Books

Time: Two 30-minute periods

  • Teach others about map skills.
  • Several sheets of blank paper for each student
  • Several examples of real maps (can be the same ones students already saw in first lesson)
  • Coloring utensils
  • Checklists for books with sentence stems (see details in Lesson Introduction)
  • A completed book example
  • Rubric for Assessment

Look through map examples with your students. Call a few up to identify important features. Explain to students that they now have great map skills because they know what goes in maps and how to read them. Map skills make it possible to use maps.

Decide beforehand (this is what you will include on checklists):

  • How much writing vs. drawing/diagramming you want to require of your students.
  • Note: You will need to prepare sentence stems for these that students will complete and write in their books. E.g. "The four cardinal directions are _____."
  • How many pages will be in the books.
  • How much time students will have to complete these.
  • "What would it be like to not know how to use maps or not have map skills? Turn and tell the person next to you why it would be difficult to not have map skills."
  • Tell students that they will be making books to teach others map skills.
  • Provide each student with a checklist that tells what they will need to include in their book (these are the features you will be checking for when assessing their work).
  • Show students your completed example. Demonstrate how to use the checklist to make sure all important parts are included.
  • Allow students as much time as you have scheduled for this activity.

Provide additional graphic organizers for planning the books. Give some students options for what to put in the blanks you have provided. For example, "The four cardinal directions are _____ North/South/East/West or Up/Down/Left/Right."

Use a rubric to assess student work. Check whether they have included every important feature and for the accuracy/delivery of each.

Treasure Hunt

  • Effectively use a map.
  • Five "treasure boxes" or items for students to find
  • Copy these so that each student has their own

Hide the treasure in the classroom while the students are gone, as spread out as possible.

Review the map song with students and remind them what they have learned in each lesson so far. Tell students that they are going to put all of their map skills to the test. Divide them into five groups.

Instruction and Activity

  • Explain to students that you have hidden treasure around the room and the only way to find it is to use everything they know about maps.
  • Give each student their own map. There should be five separate maps but group members must have the same one.
  • Give students approximately 15 minutes to work together to find their treasure.
  • Once every group has found their treasure, gather the class to talk about the activity on the carpet. Add to the KWL chart you started in the first lesson and allow a few students to show the class their map skills books.

Provide students with step-by-step directions for locating the treasure in addition to the maps. These should be straightforward and visual.

Have students write a sentence or two explaining how they used the map to find the treasure in their journals. What was the first thing they did? What map feature was most helpful?

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Engaging Geography Lessons For Kindergarten And First Grade

When you think of teaching kindergarten and first grade students, you often think of letters, numbers, reading, math, etc. Those subjects are extremely important, but it is also beneficial to them to introduce the subject of geography! 

Learning about the different countries around the world is so important. To these kiddos, they may not even realize that there is more out there besides what they can see. It’s so fun to teach them about all of the different countries, continents, and people around the world and watch their eyes light up in wonder. 

Learning about geography is so vital to students because: 

  • It teaches them about the diversity of locations and cultures in other countries around the world.
  • It helps them know where they are and what else is there- giving them a sense of location. 
  • It helps them understand the impacts of changes in the environment on land and people. 
  • It helps them understand and appreciate nature.
  • It helps them understand the world and their place in it. 

For kindergarten and first graders, you want to start with the basics to introduce the topic. First, teach them about maps and globes, cardinal directions, landforms, bodies of water, etc. This will help them understand the essentials as you get more detailed in your lessons. 

After they understand that, try introducing our country and the states. You can teach students where they are located. Make it extra engaging by teaching about the locations of famous landmarks or attractions. Next, get the students involved by asking them about their favorite vacation destination and then finding it on the map together. Geography can be so fun! 

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My Geography Resource includes 9 weeks of geography lessons and hands-on activities that are perfect for kindergarten or first grade students. It has everything you need including lesson plans covering positional words, landforms, bodies of water, cardinal directions, maps, globes, personal information, and seasonal weather changes. It has crafts, interactive notebook pages, posters, a “Me On The Map” flip book, and a write the room activity. 

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  • Week 1: Positional words to describe locations
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  • Week 6: Personal information (phone number and address)
  • Week 7: Landforms
  • Week 8: Bodies of water
  • Week 9: Seasonal Weather

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Continents and Oceans , and supports the standard of identifying a variety of physical features using a map and globe. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Ask students:

  • How would you describe where you live to a friend from another country?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Play the Continents and Oceans movie .  
  • Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP : The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz , demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills. Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about continents and oceans while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

  • Draw About It : Draw an outline of a continent.
  • Activity : Color and label the continents and oceans on the map.
  • Talk About It : Compare and contrast two continents.
  • Write About It : Explain which continents you would like to visit and why. Describe what you would like to do there.

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