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Globe and Map Skills: Content Check and Strategies Dr. Tim Fry

This document provides an overview of important globe and map skills for teacher candidates to become familiar with, including: the size and shape of Earth; hemispheres; rotation, axis, and seasons; latitude and longitude; and strategies for teaching location skills like using globes and maps. Key concepts covered are the four main hemispheres, how Earth's rotation causes day and night while its revolution around the sun causes seasons, and using grids like latitude and longitude to identify exact locations. Children's book recommendations are included to help teach various concepts.

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Globe and Map Skills: Content Check and Strategies Dr. Tim Fry

This document provides an overview of important globe and map skills for teacher candidates to become familiar with, including: the size and shape of Earth; hemispheres; rotation, axis, and seasons; latitude and longitude; and strategies for teaching location skills like using globes and maps. Key concepts covered are the four main hemispheres, how Earth's rotation causes day and night while its revolution around the sun causes seasons, and using grids like latitude and longitude to identify exact locations. Children's book recommendations are included to help teach various concepts.

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Globe and Map Skills

Content Check and Strategies

Dr. Tim Fry


A person can know the world and
never leave his/her home
Lao-Tzu
Objective:
The teacher candidate should
become more familiar with
some important globe/map
skills and some
strategies/activities to facilitate
learning in social studies
Specifically become more
familiar with:
size and shape of the Earth
hemispheres
rotation, axis, tilt, North Star
revolution, seasons, direct rays
relative location-pumpkin globes
exact location-longitude and latitude,
hurricane game
Size
Literature connection-The Librarian Who
Measured the Earth
by Kathryn Laskey

Sphere
Hemi”-Greek word for half
Hemisphere
Four Main Hemispheres
Northern Hemisphere-”Landed” divided
by the equator from the
Southern Hemisphere-”Water”
Western Hemisphere- “Americas”
divided by the Prime Meridian &
International Date Line from the
Eastern Hemisphere
Two movements of planet Earth
Rotation-Earth spinning on its axis

Revolution-Earth making a wide


circle around the Sun
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Rotation
Earth spinning on imaginary line
called an axis
Takes 24 hours or one day
Causes day and night
Axis is tilted at 23½ degrees
Axis always points at North Star
Rotation related-Time Zones

Literature connections
Somewhere in the World Right
Now By Stacie Schuett
Nine O’clock Lullaby by Singer
(1993)
Revolution
Wide circle around sun
Takes 365 & 1/4 days
With 23½ tilt of axis and North Star
orientation it causes seasons
Direct rays & first day of each season
First Day of Season Facts

March 21-First day of Spring, Vernal Equinox,


direct rays at equator
June 21-First day of Summer, Summer
Solstice, direct rays at 23½° North-Tropic of
Cancer, Longest day
Sept. 21-First day of Fall, Autumnal Equinox,
direct rays at equator
Dec. 21-First day of Winter, Winter Solstice,
direct rays at 23½° South-Tropic of
Capricorn, Shortest day
Two other lines as a result of
Revolution
Arctic Circle-66 2/3° North

Antarctic Circle-66 2/3° South

Marks the area that experiences 24 hours


of total darkness and 24 hours of total light
Five Map Skills of NCSS
Orient a map and note directions
Use scale and compute distances
Interpret map symbols
Express relative location
Locate places on maps and globes
Relative location
Pumpkin Globes
Atlas --a.k.a Matthew
Exact Location
Grid System-Single Quadrant
Longitude and Latitude
Lines of Latitude
Latitude lines are parallel, “parallels”
Run E & W but measure N & S of the
equator which is O degrees latitude
¼ of 360 degrees = 90 degrees
maximum latitude- N & S Poles
Lines of Longitude
Longitude lines not parallel but
converge at the N & S Poles
“meridians”
Run N & S but measure E & W of the
Prime Meridian-0 degrees Longitude
Arbitrary point/Greenwich Observatory
½ of 360 is 180 degrees max-IDL
Riddle???
Standing on a point on Earth, I go one
mile south, then one mile west, and
then one mile north.
Where am I from the original point?

Color of the bears?


Each degree divided by 60 minutes
41°
40°50’

40°30’

40°10’
40°
Hurricane Game
Groups of at least 4
Instructor calls out coordinates
Students determine location and raise
hands to attempt correct place name
Baseball style-correct answer allows
person on first base and so forth until
one team scores a run
Mercator Projection Map
Kansas Curricular Standards Addressed
Geography Standard
Benchmark 1-Maps and Location
Fourth Grade Indicators 2 & 3
• 2. Uses grid systems to locate places…..
• 3. Identifies major landforms...relative locations
Benchmark 3-Physical Systems
Sixth Grade Indicator 2
• 2. Explains how Earth-Sun relationships
produce day and night, seasons
KSDE Teaching Standards Addressed
History Comprehensive 5-8
Standard #7 The teacher…has
knowledge and understanding of the
spatial organizations of the Earth’s
surface…..
Performance Indicator 1
• The teacher is able to use maps and graphic
representations….

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