Globe and Map Skills

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Globe and Map Skills

• Content Check and Strategies
• Miss Smith

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A person can know the world and never leave
his/her home -source
unknown
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Objective

• The student should become more familiar with some
  important globe/map skills and some
  strategies/activities to facilitate learning in
  social studies

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Specifically become more familiar with

• size and shape of the Earth
• hemispheres
• rotation, axis, tilt, North Star
• revolution, seasons, direct rays

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Map Skills

• Orient a map and note directions
• Use scale and compute distances
• Interpret map symbols
• Express relative location
• Locate places on maps and globes

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Map Legends

• The legend is the key to unlocking the secrets of
  a map. Objects or colors in the legend represent
  something on the map.

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Can you understand this legend?
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Age Expectancy
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Hemisphere Hemi-Greek word for half
Sphere-a three dimensional closed surface
consisting of all points that are a given
distance from a center.
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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

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Where is 0 degree?

• The equator is 0 degree latitude.
• It is an imaginary belt that runs halfway point
  between the North Pole and the South Pole.

Equator
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Compass

• A compass is a tool that helps the user know what
  direction one is headed.
• On a map, a compass or a compass rose helps the
  user locate these directions.

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Compass Facts

• The needle on a compass is magnetized to point to
  the earth's north magnetic pole. Thus with a
  compass, a person can roughly tell which
  direction they are headed.
• There are four major or cardinal directions on a
  compass- north, south, east west. In between
  are the directions northeast, northwest,
  southeast, southwest.
• Direction Quiz

Source http//aerocompass.larc.nasa.gov
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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 (This is why we
  have seasons).
• Axis always points at North Star

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Time Zones

• The Earth is divided into 24 time zones,
  corresponding to 24 hours in a day.
• As the earth rotates, the sun shines in different
  areas, moving from east to west during the course
  of a day.
• Places that have the same longitude will be in
  the same time zone.

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Where is 0 degree?

• The prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude. This
  imaginary line runs through the United Kingdom,
  France, Spain, western Africa, and Antarctica.

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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

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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

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Atlas --a.k.a Matthew
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Lines

• Longitude lines run north and south.
• Latitude lines run east and west.
• The lines measure distances in degrees.

Longitude
Latitude
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Exact Location

• Grid System-Single Quadrant
• Longitude and Latitude

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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

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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

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Legend Reading Activities

• What You Can Learn From A Map
• What do Maps Show Activity
• Road Map
• Road Map Legend
• Road Map of Salt Lake City Region
• Map Worksheet

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Sites to visit

• Look up Latitude and Longitude for US Cities
• Maps and Map Skills Degrees, Latitude,
  Longitude Worksheet
• Latitude and Longitude Map (lesson plan)
• Scale
• Time Zones
• Anchors Aweigh (a map adventure)
• Map Quiz
• Make Your Own Map
• Topography Maps
• U. S. Map Collection
• GeoSpy Game
• Globe Projector
• GeoGame

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Latitude and Longitude Resources

• Latitude Longitude Activity
• A Printable Latitude Longitude Map of the World
• Latitude Longitude Map Making
• Latitude and Longitude Quiz

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Additional Sources

• Atlas - World (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
• Outline Map of US
• Map Packet Download
• Maps.com
• National Geographic Xpeditions
• Maps Globes