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SS-EP-4.1.1 Students will use geographic tools (e.g. maps, globes, mental maps, charts, graphs) to locate and describe familiar places at home, school and the community. Learning Targets: I can identify a globe. I can identify a map. I can tell the name of the state where I live. I can locate my state on a map of the United States. I can locate where I was born on a map. I can describe places in my community that I visit (e.g. school, church, store, doctor's office and playground) and explain what I do there.
 * Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results**
 * Topic: Here I Am**

Topic: Mapping Skills SS-EP-4.1.1 Students will use geographic tools (e.g. maps, globes, mental maps, charts, graphs) to locate and describe familiar places at home, school and the community. Learning Targets: I can explain how a map helps us. I can locate places on a simple map of the classroom. I can locate places on a simple map of the school grounds.

SS-EP-4.1.2 Students will geographic tools to identify major landforms (e.g. continents, mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g. oceans, major rivers) and natural resources on Earth's surface and use relative location.

Learning Targets: I can identify water and land on a globe. I can identify water and land on a simple map.


 * Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence**
 * Topic: Here I Am**
 * Formative Assessment from Activity One: Partners Map**
 * Formative Assessment from Homework: Students will describe their room.**
 * Formative Assessment from Homework: Students will share their __From Here to There__ Paper.**
 * Topic: Mapping Skills**
 * Formative Assessment: Sharing Student Created Maps of the School Grounds.**

Read: **__Me on the Map__** Read: **__As the Crow Flies__**
 * Stage 3 - Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction**
 * Topic: Here I Am**
 * Week One: Essential Question: How Can I Locate Important Places on a Map or a Globe.**
 * Watch** __Discovery Education Video: Maps and Globes__
 * Construct a map of the classroom together.**
 * Students will work with a partner to construct a map using the manipulatives.**
 * Homework: Students will create a map of their room with the parent's help.**
 * Teacher will use** __Me on the Map__ **to talk about globe, continent, country, state and town.**
 * Teacher will use Google Earth to locate our school on the SmartBoard.**
 * Read: __From Here to There__**
 * Homework: Students will complete a modified version of From Here to There with parent's help**
 * Topic: Mapping Skill**
 * Read:** __Mapping Penny's World__
 * Students will use the map made from previous week to locate hidden treasure in the room based on clues given.**
 * Show:** __Rosie's Wa__lk: You Tube Video
 * Show: __Discovery Eduction Video: Beginning Maps: Models and Places__**
 * Take a walk on the school grounds and come back and create a map of the grounds as a group.**
 * Students will work with partner or buddy to create their own map of the school grounds.**