Maps: Ohio Social Studies Standards

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Maps Ohio Social Studies Standards

• By
• Tiffany Suman and Ellen Winter
• ED 417
• Spring 2007

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Table of Contents

• History Standard
• People in Societies Standard
• Geography Standard
• Economics Standard
• Government/Citizenship Rights and
  Responsibilities Standards
  
• Social Studies Skills and Methods Standard

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Maps

• Title Maps
• Grade 3rd
• SS unit/lesson Learing about Maps
• Authors
• Tiffany Suman
• Ellen Winter

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History

• Students use materials drawn from the diversity
  of human experience to analyze and interpret
  significant events, patterns and themes in the
  history of Ohio, the United States and the
  world.

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History Activity 1

• Students will learn how to use and read a scale
  from a map to determine the distance traveled by
  settlers by converting the measurement unit into
  miles.

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History Activity 2

• Students will look at and analyze different maps
  of industrial and agricultural growth over a time
  span from the United States of America.

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History Activity 3

• Using the maps from Activity 2, students will
  then create a map of their own depicting the
  industrial and agricultural growth today. Maps
  will be hung up around the room as a display.

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History Activity 4

• Students will be divided into 4 different
  cultural groups where they will have to determine
  the route they would have taken to immigrate to
  the new country from their current land.

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History Activity 5

• Students will look at and analyze the maps of
  settlers and the paths they took to cross into
  the new country. The students will then determine
  and design a map or graph to show if the
  immigration continued, where the highways and
  roads would most likely be.

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History Websites

• Maps 101
• Blank Maps
• Maps for Teachers
• Educational Maps and Learning
• Maps Background

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People in Societies Standard

• Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices
  and products of cultural, ethnic and social
  groups to analyze the impact of their commonality
  and diversity within local, national, regional
  and global settings.

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People in Societies Activity 1

• Students will read two different culturally
  diverse books and then come together to fill in a
  Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two
  cultures.

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People in Societies Activity 2

• Students will examine artifacts from different
  cultural backgrounds. A field trip to a local
  museum will aid in the students learning.

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People in Societies Activity 3

• Students will do a study or interview of their
  families past heritage to determine where the
  students came from.

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People in Societies Activity 4

• Students will collaborate with their groups to
  determine the cause and effect of the most known
  wars and disagreements between different cultures
  and countries.

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People in Societies Activity 5

• Students will participate in a week-long learning
  experience where each day represents a different
  culture. Students will dress the part, food will
  be provided, and customs will be followed.

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People in Societies Websites

• Culturally Diverse Children Books
• Museums
• Interview Strategies
• Graphic Organizers
• Culturally Diverse Customs

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Geography Standard

• Students use knowledge of geographic locations,
  patterns and processes to show the
  interrelationship between the physical
  environment and human activity and to explain the
  interactions that occur in an increasingly
  interdependent world.

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Geography Activity 1

• Students will receive a map of Ohio and work in
  teams to fill in the missing information.
  Resources may be used to find information.

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Geography Activity 2

• Students will learn about the environment and
  then collaborate with their group of how we live
  in our environment. Students will then come up
  with a list of ways we can better out environment
  and ways we can adapt to our environment in a
  more healthy manner.

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Geography Activity 3

• Students will be given a grid and have to place
  coordinates with labels of places on the map.
  Students will then switch papers and another
  student will have to find each coordinate and the
  location given to each place.

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Geography Activity 4

• Students will be separated into two groups to
  discuss either the positives or negatives of the
  affects on our environment. The whole class will
  then come together and place findings on a Venn
  diagram chart.

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Geography Activity 5

• Students will look at maps to determine where
  people settled and how that affected
  transportation and communication. Students will
  then create their own map of how transportation
  and communication is today.

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Geography Websites

• Ohio Maps
• Environment
• Graphing
• Compare and Contrast
• Geography for Children

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Economics

• Students use economic reasoning skills and
  knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and
  systems
  
• in order to make informed choices as producers,
  consumers, savers, investors, workers and
  citizens in an
  
• interdependent world.

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Economics Activity 1

• The students will be divided into 3 small groups.
  Each group will be given different materials to
  create a map.
  
• Group one Computer
• Group two pen and paper
• Group three Carryon and paper
• After the maps are created the maps will be laid
  out for all to see. The discussion will be lead
  by asking the question What map would you buy
  that would be the easiest to read?
• The map created by the computer because it is
  the neatest and most clear.
  
• In our history we have seen that labor of the
  products makes or breaks a product. Students are
  to understand that the different divisions of
  labor are important to the production of goods
  and services. The activity will show that
  depending on the materials you have, they will
  see the difference in the products.

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Economics Activity 2

• The students will look at an analyze a map that
  will show scares materials.
  
• The students will have to read the key to
  determine which items are scarce by the color on
  the map.

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Economics Activity 4

• The students are going to create a map business.
  The teacher will over see the business in
  general. The students will be selling the maps
  for their business. Things the students will be
  considering with their business Advertisement,
  how much money they need to start, how much they
  will sell the maps for, how many would they need
  to sell to make a profit, how will they make the
  maps, and what will the business be called?

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Economics Activity 5

• The be given an area of the United States that
  they will research the goods and services of that
  state.
  
• The students will create a map of their state
  showing the areas of which the goods and services
  come from.

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Economic Websites

• Internet For Third Grade Classrooms
• Family Education at Home
• Maps
• Map Store
• Maps and Symbols

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities

• Students use knowledge of the purposes,
  structures and processes of political systems at
  the local, national and international levels to
  understand that people create systems of
  government as structures of power and authority
  to provide order, maintain stability and promote
  the general welfare.
• Students use knowledge of the rights and
  responsibilities of citizenship in order to
  examine and evaluate civic ideals and to
  participate in community life and the American
  democratic system.

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Activity 1

• Students will develop a KWL chart as a class.
• What they know
• What they want to know
• What they learned about maps and why they were
  created
  
• The students will read about maps in their text
  book to find fill in the remaining parts of the
  chart.
  

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
ResponsibilitiesActivity 2

• The students will learn the importance of the
  trash removal job. The teacher will have the
  local trash removal company come to the classroom
  and talk with the students about trash removal
  and recycling.
• The students will use a map to track one truck
  for one day to see where the truck goes through
  one day. The teacher and guest speaker will work
  together to get the information that the students
  will need to complete the assignment.

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Activity 3

• The students will follow the president campaign.
  The students will use the map to learn which
  state the presents won.
  
• The students will each receive a map of the
  United States and will color in each state a
  different color depending on which presidential
  candidate won.
• This will help the student learn the states.

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Activity 4

• The students will learn the responsibilities that
  they must take in order to maintain the beauty of
  their school. The students will use the map
  layout of their school to clean up the inside and
  outside of their school. At each place of the
  school they need to write on the map what they
  did to improve their school.
• The students will be put into groups with adult
  supervision.

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Government / Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Activity 5

• The students will use a map to locate landmarks
  that are important to our history in Washington
  D.C.
  
• The students will be given a map of Washington
  D.C. which will have a lay out with the names of
  the landmarks.
  
• The students will glue pictures of the landmarks
  that the teacher will supply for the students.
  
• After the student are done gluing the landmarks
  the teacher and students will briefly discuss the
  significance of each landmark.

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Websites

• Community Helpers
• Washington D.C. Interactive Map
• Kids Recycle
• What makes your community run?
• Map Creator

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Social Studies Skills and Methods

• Students collect, organize, evaluate and
  synthesize information from multiple sources to
  draw logical conclusions. Students communicate
  this information using appropriate social studies
  terminology in oral, written or multimedia form
  and apply what they have learned to societal
  issues in simulated or real-world settings.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 1

• The students will make a map of the classroom
  providing a map key and direction.
  
• This map should be colored, legible, and easily
  to follow.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 2

• The students will create a map of the playground.
  The students must include the ordainments of each
  piece of playground equipment.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 3

• The students will use real maps and find
  locations of the school by using a coordinate
  guide that will be provided for them. They will
  write down the place down next to the coordinate
  as they find them. The teacher will grade the
  students work and review with the students.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 4

• The teacher will put the students in groups of
  about 4. Each group will be given directions on a
  piece of paper. They will have to use the
  directions to find their destination. The
  destinations will be different places throughout
  the school. This will help the students learn to
  read directions and use social studies content
  vocabulary.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 5

• The students will participate in a map scavenger
  hunt. The student need to use their skill about
  maps to find the different parts of the map. The
  students will need to find
• Paper for the map
• Longitude and Latitude lines for the map
• Ordinances
• Compass
• Landmarks (It can be of the classroom or
  playground)
  
• Key

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Websites

• Field Trip Map
• Kid Information About Maps
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Facts About Maps
• Teacher Map Resources