Reading Maps and Globes: Identifying Land, Water, Place
- Grade Level: Primary (1-3)
- Subjects: Geography
- Produced By: SchoolMedia, Inc.
- Year: 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 24m
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Students review the compass rose and add intermediate directions to their understanding as they locate continents, oceans and the equator on a map. Mental maps and the grid map are also reviewed and expanded with simple parallels and meridians. Students will locate major countries and use scale to trace travel routes, determine distance between locations, and introduce new visuals to their understanding of mental maps. By locating the Regions of the United States and the Native American tribes that called them home the ideas behind cultural geography are simply introduced. Students locate lakes, rivers and mountains on a new introduction, the landform map. Reading Maps and Globes is the perfect transition to Using Maps and Globes.