Geography, Humans and the Environment

Assign Mapping Skills Interactive in Google Classroom (make a copy for each student).
Complete the Compass Rose and Compass Rose Quiz activities together.

Day 8: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 12) : Show and complete....

Town Map - students should answer on their whiteboards as you enter answers in the PDF,

Day 9: Worksheet 14

Brain Pop

Day 10: (Nearpod lesson): complete together - 2nd half

Complete What is a Compass Rose as a class.

Day 11: supplemental

Lesson 3 - Map Key or Legend

Day 12: (BrainPOP Jr. - Reading Maps): Show, discuss, and play....

Assign the BrainPOP Jr. Easy Quiz in Google Classroom.
Present the video, pausing to discuss the map keys being shown.
In Google Classroom have the students log into Easy Quiz. Discuss the answers.

Day 13: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 14): Show and discuss....

Draw a picture of your classroom. The students should help design an appropriate Key.

Day 14: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 15): Show and discuss....

Students should use their whiteboards to help answer the 4 questions.
Ask other questions that can be answered using the map.

Lesson 4 - Scale

Day 15: (Mapping Skills Interactive): complete together

Discuss what Scale is and why / how it is used. (Why is the picture of a desk on our classroom map smaller than an actual classroom desk?)
Students should open their copy of Mapping Skills Interactive from either their Drive or Classroom.
Complete "Map Scale - Basic" together.

Day 16: (TpT Map Skills Worksheets): complete together

Assign: TpT Map Skills Worksheets to your students in Google Classroom.
1st display and discuss: 2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 18

Have the students open Map Skills Worksheets in Google Classroom.
Complete pages 1 (definitions) and 2 (Our Neighborhood) together

Day 17: (TpT Map Skills Worksheets): complete together

Have the students re-open Map Skills Worksheets in Google Classroom or their Drive.
Complete page 3 (Our Zoo) together.

Optional Activities: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 22 - 25): Show and discuss....

Our Campground (page 22) - complete together using GRID coordinates.
Other coordinate graphing activities to try out....
Build a Playground (pages 23 - 25) - copy then, following the directions, cut and paste (or draw) a playground.

Lesson 5 - Parts of our Globe

Day 18: (Mapping Skills Interactive): complete together

Students should open their copy of Mapping Skills Interactive from either their Drive or Classroom.
Read and discuss slides: Globe, Equator, Prime Meridian, Hemisphere, and Parts of a Globe. Remember to discuss the poles and where they are.
Complete "Hemispheres" together.

Day 19: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 31): Show, discuss and complete....

Turn to page 31 and complete "World Map" together.

Lesson 6 - New York

Day 20: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 32 ): Show, use and discuss....

Assign the link: New York Interactive Map in Google Classroom.
Turn to Mapping PDF page 32 and ask the kids what they know about their state.
Have the kids open the New York Interactive Map in Classroom.
Take turns clicking on different cities and reading a fact or two.

Day 21: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 33 - 35): Show and discuss....

Discuss any facts remembered from previous day.
Focus on what BOARDERS New York in specific directions.
Turn to Mapping PDF page 34. Try to identify each number.
Repeat on page 35.

Day 22: (2nd Grade Mapping PDF: page 36): Show, research and complete....

Have the kids re-open the New York Interactive Map in Classroom.
Open Mapping PDF page 36. Answer the Scavenger Hunt as a class.

2.5 Geography and natural resources shape where and how urban, suburban, and rural communities develop and how they sustain themselves.
2.5a Urban, suburban, and rural communities can be located on maps, and the geographic characteristics of these communities can be described by using symbols, map legends, and geographic vocabulary.
Students will locate their communities on maps and/or globes.Students will examine how land within a community is used and classify land use as “residential” (used for housing), “industrial” (used to make things), “commercial” (used to provide services), and “recreational” (where people play or do sports).Students will create maps including maps that represent their classroom, school, or community, and maps that illustrate places in stories.
2.5b The location of physical features and natural resources often affects where people settle and may affect how those people sustain themselves.
Students will compare how different communities in their state or nation have developed, and explain how physical features of the community affect the people living there.
2.5c Humans modify the environment of their communities through housing, transportation systems, schools, marketplaces, and recreation areas.
Students will explore how humans have positively and negatively affected the environment of their community though such features as roads, highways, buildings, bridges, shopping malls, railroads, and parks.Students will describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas in their communities.
2.5d The location and place of physical features and man-made structures can be described using symbols and specific geography vocabulary.
Students will use a compass rose to identify cardinal (North, South, East, West) and intermediate (Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest) directions on maps and in their community.Students will locate the equator, northern and southern hemispheres, and poles on a globe.Students will use maps and legends to identify major physical features, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans of the local community, New York State, and the nation.

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