Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Differences among the ways maps, globes, and technological resources represent Earth and portions of the Earth.
- Location of states, continents, oceans, equator, and other physical and man-made geographic features. Intermediate directions.
- Vocabulary: states, continents, oceans, equator, map, globe, title, legend, compass rose, scale, virtual globe, satellite image, radar, northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use maps, globes, and technological resources.
- Locate states, continents, oceans, the equator, and other geographic features.
- Locate map elements and use them effectively.
- Use intermediate directions to describe location.
- Locate points on a grid.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Maps, globes, and geographic technology resources are representations of a variety of geographic features.
Vocabulary
- states
- continents
- oceans
- equator
- intermediate directions
- recognize
- virtual globe
- satellite images
- radar
- locate
- points on a grid
