Students’ age range: 10-12

Main subject: Social studies

Topic: Reading and understanding Map Symbols

 

Description: Students would have previous knowledge of some basic map skills including map symbols. We Will then look at several different maps and find commonly used map symbols and articulate predomínate features that are used. The students Will créate a list of features that frequently used for map symbols, including but not limited to letters, numbers, shapes and colors. Once we have an understanding of the basics needed to créate map symbols we Will then do comparisons of the real world feature and the map symbol. The students are asked why do the map symbols have so much less in detail than the real world feature but they still resemble each other. I want them to conclude that the map symbols a symplified to fit the map and the real world feature would be to much. Finally the students Will créate map symbol of their own showing an understanding of the topic