Geography Kindergarten and 1st Grade – ME ON THE MAP BOOK – 9 WEEKS

Description

Are you looking for an engaging way to get your students learning about geography? I have you covered with 9 WEEKS of lesson plans covering positional words, landforms, bodies of water, cardinal directions, maps, globes, personal information, and seasonal weather changes. It has crafts, interactive notebook pages, posters, ME ON THE MAP flip book, and a Write the Room Activity.

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What is in this download?

• Page 1: Cover
• Page 2: Information on the Unit/Journal Set Up
• Page 3: 9 Weeks At A Glance
• Page 4: Table of Contents
• Page 5-13: Weekly Detailed Lesson Plans for 9 Weeks
• Page 14: Home Connection Parent Letter
• Page 15: Geography JOURNAL COVER
• Page 16: Word Bank for the Journal
• Page 17: KWL
• Page 18-53: (Printables to insert as a journal or use individually covering 9 Weeks of Geography)

Weekly Breakdown

• Week 1: Positional Words to Describe Locations
• Week 2: Identify Maps and Globes
• Week 3: Cardinal Directions
• Week 4: Identify Land and Water on a Map
• Week 5: School and Community Places
• Week 6: Personal Information (phone # and address)
• Week 7: Landforms
• Week 8: Bodies of Water
• Week 9: Seasonal Weather

Additional Materials

• Page 54: RUBRIC for Journal (LAST PAGE of Journal)
• Page 55-63: Nine Interactive Notebook Pages (suggested to do once a week on Fridays)
• Page 64-67: An OPTIONAL Interactive Notebook (If you don’t already have one started for students to make create their pages.) Make 9 copies of page 66, if you use it for the Interactive Pages.
• Page 68-80: POSTERS

EXTRAS

• Page 81: Label the Globe
• Page 82-83: Earth Hat
• Page 84: Fish Swim DIRECTIONS ANSWER KEY
• Page 85: Compass Rose Poster
• Page 86: Directional Signs for your classroom
• Page 87-91: Write the ROOM Activity
• Page 92-95: Me On the Map Book
• Page 96-98: Landform Craft
• Page 99-104: Pictures of how to put materials together.
• Page 105: Credits