Longitude and Latitude

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Longitude and Latitude

• Stephanie Morgan
• ED 629

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Latitude and Longitude

• Grade 4
• Unit includes
• Compass Rose
• Definitions of latitude and longitude
• Major lines of latitude
• Hemispheres
• Finding locations using latitude and longitude

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Objectives

• Students will be able to identify lines of
  latitude on a map including
• Equator
• North Pole
• South Pole
• Antarctic Circle
• Tropic of Cancer
• Arctic Circle
• Tropic of Capricorn.
• Students will be able to identify lines of
  longitude on a map including
• Prime Meridian

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Objectives

• Students will be able to locate all four
  hemispheres including
• Northern Hemisphere
• Southern Hemisphere
• Eastern Hemisphere
• Western Hemisphere
• Students will be able to identify which line
  divides the earth into the correct hemispheres.
• Students will be able to find locations on map
  using longitude and latitude.

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Materials

• Compass Rose Worksheet
• Globe
• World Map
• Latitude Worksheet
• Longitude Worksheet
• Different colors of yarn
• Scissors
• Matching Note cards
• Map of world showing latitude and longitude
• Globe Bingo Worksheet
• Skittles
• Student minds

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Activities

• Compass Rose Map Hunt
• Latitude and Longitude Worksheet
• Signing Latitude and Longitude
• Yarning about Latitude and Longitude
• Match Latitude and Longitude
• Major lines of latitude worksheet
• Globe Saysactivity about major lines of latitude
• Globe Bingo

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Pre-Assessment

• Can you
• draw and label a compass rose?
• identify the Equator and Prime Meridian on a map?
• label all the major lines of latitude on a map?
• Identify what line of latitude divides the earth
  into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere? Can
  you identify these hemispheres on a map?
• Identify what line of longitude divides the earth
  into the Western and Eastern Hemisphere? Can you
  identify these hemispheres on a map?

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Compass Rose Map Hunt

• Students will draw and label a compass rose.
• Students will discuss why a compass rose is
  important.
• Students will locate cardinal roses on various
  types of maps.
• Students will discuss what a compass rose is used
  for and who uses a compass rose.

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Latitude

• Students will be introduced to latitude and
  longitude.
• Students will complete the latitude worksheet.
• Students will trace the equator in green and the
  other lines of latitude in blue.

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Signing Latitude

• Latitude
• I'm climbing the Ladder of latitudes, latitudes,
  latitudes.
• I'm climbing the ladder of latitudes, all around
  the world.

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Longitude

• Students will be introduced to longitude by
  looking at the globe.
• Students will complete the lines of longitude
  worksheet.
• Students will trace the Prime Meridian in orange
  and the other lines of longitude in yellow.

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Signing Longitude

• Longitude
• It's a LONG, LONG way from pole to pole, pole to
  pole, pole to poleIt's a LONG, LONG way from
  pole to pole, so we call those LONGITUDES.

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Yarning about Latitude and Longitude

• Students will participate in making a globe
• Four students will be in North, South, East, and
  West positions
• Different colors of yarn will make
• Lines of latitude
• Lines of longitude
• Equator
• Prime Meridian
• North Pole
• South Pole

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Match Longitude and Latitude
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Major lines of Latitude

• Students will do the Major lines of latitude
  worksheet.
• Students will locate the major lines of latitude
  on the map.
• Students will identify the latitude degree of
  each major line of latitude.

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Major lines of latitude

• North Pole
• Arctic Circle
• Tropic of Cancer
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Antarctic Circle
• South Pole

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Globe Says

• Students will complete the worksheet on the major
  lines of latitude

• North Pole
• Arctic Circle
• Tropic of Cancer
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Antarctic Circle
• South Pole

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Globe Says

• After learning the major lines of latitude
  students will perform Globe says.
• Body parts represent the major lines of latitude
• Top of head North Pole
• Ears Arctic Circle
• Shoulders Tropic of Cancer
• Waist Equator
• Knees Tropic of Capricorn
• Shins Antarctic Circle
• Toes South Pole

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Globe Bingo

• To review, students will be given a Blank Globe
  Bingo Worksheet.
• Students will fill in the sheet before the next
  days class.

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Globe Bingo
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Assessment

• Students should be able to
• Draw and label a Compass Rose
• Identify the major lines of latitude and
  longitude on a map
• Correctly label all four Hemispheres on a map
• Find locations on a map using
• latitude and longitude

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Websites for Students

• Social Studies for Kids Basic Geography
• http//www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/geog
  raphy/latitudelongitude.htm
• BoatSafeKids How are flat charts and maps made
  of our round planet?
• http//www.boatsafe.com/kids/mercator.htm
• Interactive Latitude and Longitude
• http//www.geovista.psu.edu/grants/MapStatsKids/M
  SK_portal/concepts_latlg.html
• Map Stats for Kids
• http//www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applica
  tions/imaps/maps/g3_u6/index.html

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Websites for Teachers

• Geography Classroom Game http//geography.about.co
  m/od/teachgeography/a/classlatitude.htm
• Great Teaching Tools
• http//www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/articl
  e_108.shtml
• Latitude and Longitude
• http//www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/acti
  vities/01/popup/lat_long.html
• Yarning about Latitude and Longitude
• http//www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/02-
  1/lesson043.shtml