Students will be able to use scale to determine locations one-half and one mile away from the school. Students will be able to construct a map of their own. Students and teacher discuss the names of important places and write on map with nonpermanent marker. The amount of detail varies with the level of interest shown by the students. The bulletin board map is truly a practice map for the following activities.
Teacher follows example on bulletin-board version.
Teacher introduces and discusses map symbols, then class creates a symbol key on the bulletin-board city map. Next, teacher distributes a city map with a list of ten specific places to each student. And draw and color it next to the name. They use the telephone book to look up the address of each place and record that information. Then they move to their maps to find that specific address and record the proper symbol at the appropriate sites.