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DIXIE

STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE

Teacher Candidate: Leslie Payne



Grade Level: 1
Content Area: Social Studies: Map Skills

Step 1 DESIRED RESULTS
A. Contextual Factors
There are 28 students in the class 13 boys and 15 girls.
ELL Students:
None
Students with IEP:
Sophia-ADHD
Behavior Concerns:
Sophia
Addyson
Brayden
Struggling Students:
Zyler
Chloee
Cassidy
Tyson
High Level Learners:
Sophia
Libby
Spencer
Jayden
Griffin
B. Utah State Core or Common Core Curriculum Standard

Standard 3: 1st Grade Utah Social Studies Core




Students will use geographic tools to demonstrate how symbols and models are used to
represent features of the school, the neighborhood, and the real world.


Objective 2: Recognize and use a map or a globe.
Indicators:
a.
b.
c.

Create a map showing important sites or landmarks on a school or community (i.e., firehouse, city
hall, churches).
Locate physical features (i.e. continents, oceans, rivers, lakes), and man-made features (equator,
North and South poles, countries) on a map and on a globe.
Identify the compass rose and cardinal directions on a map and on a globe.




C. Enduring Understanding/Big Idea

Students will understand how to use a map and compass rose and be able to identify features on a map.

D. Essential Questions/Guiding Questions
Why do we need/use maps?
What are important landmarks?

What are physical features?


Why are cardinal directions important?
What are man made features?

E. Concepts
Discuss why we need and use maps.
Write which landmarks are included on maps.
Discuss man made features that are included on maps.
Identify physical features on maps.
Understand the compass rose and use cardinal directions.

F. Skills
Explain why we use maps.
Describe important landmarks.
Explain what man made features are.
Identify physical features on a map.
Identify man made features on a map.
Use a map and compass rose.
Create a map.
Step 2 ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

1. Pre-Assessments
Pretest:
Identify features on a map, compass rose, and cardinal directions.

2. Formative Assessments/Evidence
Student made map
Drawing of compass rose
Drawing of physical features
List of landmarks
3. Summative Assessments/Evidence
Posttest (same as pre-test) identify features on a map, compass rose, and cardinal directions.
Students final map of our school.

Step 3 Lesson Objectives with Instructional Strategies
Pre test will be given prior to Lesson 1.
Lesson 1: I will be able to explain why we use maps and identify the cardinal directions..
Read Theres a Map on my Lap.
Map discussion, why do we use maps?
Show map, discuss the symbols used on the maps.
Draw a compass rose.
Play compass rose game.

Lesson 2: I can describe important landmarks and their symbols.
Define landmarks.
Discuss why we have landmarks on maps.
Look at maps, identify important landmarks.
Make a list of landmarks.

Lesson 3: I can explain what man made features are.

Discuss what man made means.


Show map, identify man made features.
Make a list and drawing of possible man made features on maps.

Lesson 4: I can identify physical features on a map.
View a map.
Explain what physical features are.
List and identify physical features on the map.

Lesson 5: I can make a map and label it correctly.
Create a map of Saratoga Shores
Create a key
Draw compass rose

Lesson 6: I can make a map and label it correctly.
Continue making map
Identify man made features
Identify physical landmarks

Lesson 7: I will be able to use a map and compass rose. I can identify physical and man made features on
a map.
Review previous lessons.
Take posttest.

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