Map Skills – Common Core Lessons and Activities
Carole Marsh
Staple Bound
(Gallopade, Dec. 20, 2013)
You are purchasing the paperback version of this book. The Map Skills Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction. How to Use the Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. • Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. • Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. • Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! Click to view sample pages from this book.Tips: • Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. • Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. • To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click .• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information• Higher-Order Thinking• Writing Problems• Primary Source Analysis• Vocabulary• Graphic Organizers• Map Activities• & More! Here is the Table of Contents for the Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What Are Maps?: Reading Informational TextCartography: Main IdeaReading a Map: Applying ConceptsA Community Map: Map ActivityUsing a Simple Grid: Concepts & Processes GImaginary Lines Divide the Earth: Reading Informational TextViews of the World: Comparison of Primary SourcesBuilding a Map: Concepts & Processes GRelative & Absolute Location: Applying ConceptsLocation, Location, Location: Classifying InformationPolitical & Climate Maps: Compare & Contrast GO1Physical & Resource Maps: Comparison of SourcesA Map Series: Graphical Data AnalysisAerial Painting: Primary Source AnalysisCommon Core CorrelationG: Includes Graphic OrganizerGO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download .(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)
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