Lesson plan

Riddle Me This: Using Maps to Locate Places in the Americas


GeoSTEM

Description

In this lesson, students will choose places on a political map of the United States for which they will create riddles. The riddles will incorporate clues using cardinal (north, south, east, west) and intermediate (i.e., northwest, southeast) directions as well as mileage using the scale of the map.

Duration

1 class period

Author

Penney
Klaproth

Standards

1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information

Teacher Instructions

klaprothRiddleT.pdf (106.19 KB)

Student Materials

KlaprothRiddleS.pdf (67.74 KB)
US-NAMES.pdf (378.12 KB)
s-america-caps.pdf (356.38 KB)

Materials To Assist Teachers and English Language Learners

Supplemental Files