Mini lessons

Mini-Lessons: Becoming a Cartographer-- Mapping Your Bedroom

Description

These three mini-lessons will have students practice map-making skills such as direction, orientation, scale, key/legend, and symbols. They will also practice creating a map of any room in their house with a bedroom being suggested.

Author

Noel McClure

Duration

15 minutes each

National Geography Standards

1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
2: How to use mental maps (a person's internalized picture of a part of Earth's surface) to organize information about people places, and environments

Lesson Plan Files

McClureCartographerML.pdf (147.64 KB)