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Thinking About Maps and Globes

Thinking About Maps and Globes. Geography Unit for K-1 DE Recommended Curriculum Carol and Phil Gersmehl, New York Center for Geographic Learning Adapted for DE use by Maggie Legates, DGA. Lesson One -Thinking and Talking About Location. Lesson Two: Representation with Models.

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Thinking About Maps and Globes

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  1. Thinking About Maps and Globes Geography Unit for K-1 DE Recommended Curriculum Carol and Phil Gersmehl, New York Center for Geographic Learning Adapted for DE use by Maggie Legates, DGA

  2. Lesson One -Thinking and Talking About Location

  3. Lesson Two: Representation with Models

  4. Lesson Three: Representation with Maps

  5. Lesson Four: Sequence during a Journey

  6. Lesson Five: Globe as a Model of Earth

  7. Lesson Six: Near and Far • Which is nearer, the low boat (Little Key) or the tall ship Kalmar Nyckel?

  8. Lesson Seven: The tall ship Kalmar Nyckel is 105 feet high. The row boat Little Key is 6 and a half feet high. High and Low

  9. Looking down from a high place The valley is 1500 feet below the mountain.

  10. Looking up from a low place This quarry in northern Delaware is 292 feet high.

  11. Harlem Success School Building

  12. Hill in Marcus Garvey Park

  13. Empire State Building

  14. Catskill Mountains Highest point is Slide Mountain at 4,180 feet

  15. Adirondack Mountains in New York Height of Mount Marcy is 5,344 feet

  16. Photos were taken in NY and elsewhere in the U.S.: The photos show --flat lands (plains), --flat lands with gentle ups and downs, --flat lands with areas that go steeply up, --and different shore lines next to the ocean (both flat and steep)

  17. 1- flat land or plain Level land in eastern Long Island…(a nursery)

  18. 2 - flat landor plain Level land in eastern Long Island…(farm where pumpkins are for sale)

  19. 3 3 – almost flat landwith some gentleups and downs Level land in upstate New York

  20. 4 – flat landwith areas that go steeply up and down B A Level land with a special kind of hill (a butte) – Monument Valley in Western U.S. (Utah, Arizona)

  21. 5 – flat landnext to the ocean(shore) Shore next to the ocean---a sandy beach that is pretty level…and small hills in background…

  22. 6 – steep landnext to the ocean(shore) Shore next to the ocean — a rocky shore along coast of Oregon

  23. 7– flat landnext to the ocean(shore) Shore---a sandy beach (Cape Code, Massachusetts) with small sandy hills…

  24. These photos were taken in the U.S. Find the highest place in each picture; find the lowest place. Look for - Mountains - Valleys - Hills Discuss how “Hills” are different from“Mountains.” carol.gersmehl@gmail.com, Feb. 7, 2009

  25. 10 – Mountains and Valleys that are lower places between higher mountains Sierra Nevada mountains in California… High mountains (about 10,000 feet) often are covered with snow (even in summer because the higher elevation is colder).

  26. 11 – Mountains and Valley (which is lower) Yosemite Mountains in California; also the valley which is lower in elevation…

  27. 12 - Mountain Carol is walking in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina (about 5000 feet)

  28. 13 - Hills Hills (Sandhills) in Nebraska; the cows help give notion of size/height…

  29. 14 – Hills Hills and valley on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…- Autumn

  30. 15 – Hills Hills and valley on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…winter

  31. 16 – Hills Hills on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…cows help to show size

  32. 16 – Steep-sided Valley Deep and narrow valley in western U.S. (Idaho or Oregon?) Bridge may help with concept…

  33. Yosemite National Park in California Height of Mount Lyell is 13,114 feet

  34. This map shows high places and low places in Delaware.

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