Third Grade Project: Mapping



Amount of Time Needed

One fifty-minute class period.


Material Needed

A projector connected to a computer with internet access, a screen for the projector, a whiteboard with markers, and a large sheet of paper with markers.


Objectives

  1. Describe the difference between a contemporary map of their city or town and the map of their city or town in the 18th, 19th, or early 20th century.
  2. Read globes and maps and follow narrative accounts using them.
  3. Correctly use words and phrases related to time and recognize the existence of changing historical periods (other times, other places).
  4. Describe a map as a representation of a space, such as the classroom, the school, the neighborhood, town, city, state, country, or world.

Procedure

  1. Before the class, the instructor should (as time allows) explore the scrapbook and the Google map. It may be helpful to list locations that appear on the Google map that the class might find interesting.
  2. The instructor should give a brief introduction to the digital scrapbook. Time should be spent exploring the various items of interest to the class.
  3. The instructor should make a list on the board of places in the scrapbook that are of interest to the class.
  4. The class should use the Google map to find the locations of the listed places on the map.
  5. The class should then make list of places they would put on a map of a school neighborhood.
  6. If time allows, the students can make the actual map on the large sheet of paper.
  7. Students should discuss if they were to travel back to when Bettie was a student in the 1930’s, which of the places would be there? What locations have changed the most in the past eighty years?

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