Lesson plan
Longitude and Latitude: Harmony of the Spheros
GiantMapActivities
Description
In this giant map activity, student groups compete by finding locations using latitude and longitude and directing small round robots called Spheros to such locations on the Arizona map. Students then use a paper map of Arizona counties to locate the same locations. Students then select one of the Arizona counties to gather Fun Facts and create a short blog.Duration
50 minutesAuthor
Norma
Owens
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report informationTeacher Instructions
OwensLat_Long_Spheros.pdf
(328.75 KB)
Student Materials
OwensLat_Long_SpherosS.pdf
(213.92 KB)
azcounties-names.pdf
(271.01 KB)