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Maps: Ohio Social Studies Standards

Maps: Ohio Social Studies Standards. By: Tiffany Suman and Ellen Winter ED 417 Spring 2007. Table of Contents. History Standard People in Societies Standard Geography Standard Economics Standard Government/Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Standards

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Maps: Ohio Social Studies Standards

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  1. Maps: Ohio Social Studies Standards By: Tiffany Suman and Ellen Winter ED 417 Spring 2007

  2. Table of Contents • History Standard • People in Societies Standard • Geography Standard • Economics Standard • Government/Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Standards • Social Studies Skills and Methods Standard

  3. Maps • Title: Maps • Grade: 3rd • SS unit/lesson: Learing about Maps • Authors: • Tiffany Suman • Ellen Winter

  4. History • Students use materials drawn from the diversity of human experience to analyze and interpret significant events, patterns and themes in the history of Ohio, the United States and the world.

  5. History Activity #1 • Students will learn how to use and read a scale from a map to determine the distance traveled by settlers by converting the measurement unit into miles.

  6. History Activity #2 • Students will look at and analyze different maps of industrial and agricultural growth over a time span from the United States of America.

  7. History Activity #3 • Using the maps from Activity #2, students will then create a map of their own depicting the industrial and agricultural growth today. Maps will be hung up around the room as a display.

  8. History Activity #4 • Students will be divided into 4 different cultural groups where they will have to determine the route they would have taken to immigrate to the new country from their current land.

  9. History Activity #5 • Students will look at and analyze the maps of settlers and the paths they took to cross into the new country. The students will then determine and design a map or graph to show if the immigration continued, where the highways and roads would most likely be.

  10. History Websites • Maps 101 • Blank Maps • Maps for Teachers • Educational Maps and Learning • Maps Background

  11. People in Societies Standard • Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices and products of cultural, ethnic and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional and global settings.

  12. People in Societies Activity #1 • Students will read two different culturally diverse books and then come together to fill in a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two cultures.

  13. People in Societies Activity #2 • Students will examine artifacts from different cultural backgrounds. A field trip to a local museum will aid in the students’ learning.

  14. People in Societies Activity #3 • Students will do a study or interview of their families’ past heritage to determine where the students came from.

  15. People in Societies Activity #4 • Students will collaborate with their groups to determine the cause and effect of the most known wars and disagreements between different cultures and countries.

  16. People in Societies Activity #5 • Students will participate in a week-long learning experience where each day represents a different culture. Students will dress the part, food will be provided, and customs will be followed.

  17. People in Societies Websites • Culturally Diverse Children Books • Museums • Interview Strategies • Graphic Organizers • Culturally Diverse Customs

  18. Geography Standard • Students use knowledge of geographic locations, patterns and processes to show the interrelationship between the physical environment and human activity and to explain the interactions that occur in an increasingly interdependent world.

  19. Geography Activity #1 • Students will receive a map of Ohio and work in teams to fill in the missing information. Resources may be used to find information.

  20. Geography Activity #2 • Students will learn about the environment and then collaborate with their group of how we live in our environment. Students will then come up with a list of ways we can better out environment and ways we can adapt to our environment in a more healthy manner.

  21. Geography Activity #3 • Students will be given a grid and have to place coordinates with labels of places on the map. Students will then switch papers and another student will have to find each coordinate and the location given to each place.

  22. Geography Activity #4 • Students will be separated into two groups to discuss either the positives or negatives of the affects on our environment. The whole class will then come together and place findings on a Venn diagram chart.

  23. Geography Activity #5 • Students will look at maps to determine where people settled and how that affected transportation and communication. Students will then create their own map of how transportation and communication is today.

  24. Geography Websites • Ohio Maps • Environment • Graphing • Compare and Contrast • Geography for Children

  25. Economics • Students use economic reasoning skills and knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and systems in order to make informed choices as producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers and citizens in an interdependent world.

  26. Economics Activity #1 • The students will be divided into 3 small groups. Each group will be given different materials to create a map. • Group one: Computer • Group two: pen and paper • Group three: Carryon and paper • After the maps are created the maps will be laid out for all to see. The discussion will be lead by asking the question: What map would you buy that would be the easiest to read? • The map created by the computer because it is the neatest and most clear. • In our history we have seen that labor of the products makes or breaks a product. Students are to understand that the different divisions of labor are important to the production of goods and services. The activity will show that depending on the materials you have, they will see the difference in the products.

  27. Economics Activity #2 • The students will look at an analyze a map that will show scares materials. • The students will have to read the key to determine which items are scarce by the color on the map.

  28. Economics Activity #4 • The students are going to create a map business. The teacher will over see the business in general. The students will be selling the maps for their business. Things the students will be considering with their business: Advertisement, how much money they need to start, how much they will sell the maps for, how many would they need to sell to make a profit, how will they make the maps, and what will the business be called?

  29. Economics Activity #5 • The be given an area of the United States that they will research the goods and services of that state. • The students will create a map of their state showing the areas of which the goods and services come from.

  30. Economic Websites • Internet For Third Grade Classrooms • Family Education at Home • Maps • Map Store • Maps and Symbols

  31. Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities • Students use knowledge of the purposes, structures and processes of political systems at the local, national and international levels to understand that people create systems of government as structures of power and authority to provide order, maintain stability and promote the general welfare. • Students use knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in order to examine and evaluate civic ideals and to participate in community life and the American democratic system.

  32. Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activity #1 • Students will develop a “KWL” chart as a class. • What they know… • What they want to know… • What they learned about maps and why they were created… • The students will read about maps in their text book to find fill in the remaining parts of the chart.

  33. Government / Citizenship Rights and ResponsibilitiesActivity #2 • The students will learn the importance of the trash removal job. The teacher will have the local trash removal company come to the classroom and talk with the students about trash removal and recycling. • The students will use a map to track one truck for one day to see where the truck goes through one day. The teacher and guest speaker will work together to get the information that the students will need to complete the assignment.

  34. Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activity #3 • The students will follow the president campaign. The students will use the map to learn which state the presents won. • The students will each receive a map of the United States and will color in each state a different color depending on which presidential candidate won. • This will help the student learn the states.

  35. Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activity #4 • The students will learn the responsibilities that they must take in order to maintain the beauty of their school. The students will use the map layout of their school to clean up the inside and outside of their school. At each place of the school they need to write on the map what they did to improve their school. • The students will be put into groups with adult supervision.

  36. Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activity #5 • The students will use a map to locate landmarks that are important to our history in Washington D.C. • The students will be given a map of Washington D.C. which will have a lay out with the names of the landmarks. • The students will glue pictures of the landmarks that the teacher will supply for the students. • After the student are done gluing the landmarks the teacher and students will briefly discuss the significance of each landmark.

  37. Websites • Community Helpers • Washington D.C. Interactive Map • Kids Recycle • What makes your community run? • Map Creator

  38. Social Studies Skills and Methods • Students collect, organize, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources to draw logical conclusions. Students communicate this information using appropriate social studies terminology in oral, written or multimedia form and apply what they have learned to societal issues in simulated or real-world settings.

  39. Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity #1 • The students will make a map of the classroom providing a map key and direction. • This map should be colored, legible, and easily to follow.

  40. Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity #2 • The students will create a map of the playground. The students must include the ordainments of each piece of playground equipment.

  41. Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity #3 • The students will use real maps and find locations of the school by using a coordinate guide that will be provided for them. They will write down the place down next to the coordinate as they find them. The teacher will grade the students work and review with the students.

  42. Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity #4 • The teacher will put the students in groups of about 4. Each group will be given directions on a piece of paper. They will have to use the directions to find their destination. The destinations will be different places throughout the school. This will help the students learn to read directions and use social studies content vocabulary.

  43. Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity #5 • The students will participate in a map scavenger hunt. The student need to use their skill about maps to find the different parts of the map. The students will need to find: • Paper for the map • Longitude and Latitude lines for the map • Ordinances • Compass • Landmarks (It can be of the classroom or playground) • Key

  44. Websites • Field Trip Map • Kid Information About Maps • Test Your Geography Knowledge • Facts About Maps • Teacher Map Resources

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