Lesson Plans: Social Studies, Grades 1-3

Orienteering: Map Skills

Orienteering is a sport popular in Australia and Sweden and is used as a training activity in the service. It teaches the participants how to read and use a map. The activity can be adjusted according to grade level by the difficulty of the course and even the use of a compass. Excellent activity for field trips. I used it as a culminating activity to an outdoor unit.

Where do you live?

This activity is designed to increase students' awareness of the make-up of the immediate community.

Where in the world is...

I want my students to know if I'm talking about a country or a state in our country. They should see that there is a World, that World has continents, those continents have countries within them, and those countries are divided up into smaller sections, such as states.

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