By: Nikki Bush

GLCES 2-G1.0.1 Construct maps of the local community that

contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.

2-G1.0.2 Use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale.

2-G4.0.1 Describe the land use in the community (e.g., where people live, where services are provided, where products are made).

2-G4.0.2 Describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community.

Books

Communities big book

Media There’s a Map on My Lap! Read Aloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=NazvXwWumaQ

Activities Journal Entry

Content Magazines

Websites http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applicati

ons/imaps/maps/g3_u1/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/communities.htm

Poem My Map I have a map, map, map. What do I see? I scan the title first, peruse the key, key, key! Colors and symbols there, all speak to me, me, me. They tell me features, populations and what those things could be! Now on my map, map, map, there is a compass rose. Each tip directs a point: North, East, South, and West it goes! Lines drawn across the face, latitude they show Longitude lines cut up and down in rows. I have a map , map, map, as you can see, see, see I know its lines and codes, can read its key, key, key. Just continents and coast, land and the sea, sea, sea. But treasures hidden here are all for me, me, me!

Maps Exploring Maps

Neighborhood and Communities Maps for the Overhead and Instant Map Skills

Interactive Workbooks Map Skills for Today

The Complete Book of Maps and Geography

Song

We All Go Traveling By (transportation song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=cSw50Jw0H34

Lesson Plan http://www.worldmapsonline.com/LESSON-

PLANS/k-3-us-map-lesson-2-introduction-to-symbols-print.pdf

Curriculum Materials

Citations Communities. (2014). In Teach Now!. Retrieved February 1, 2014, from

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/communities.htm DeMartino, M. (n.d.). Map Features Poem. In Teachers Pay Teachers. Retrieved March 15,

2014, from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Map-Features-Poem-1020032 Exploring Maps Teaching Guide. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survery. Glickman, J. (2008). Map Skills for Today. New York, NY: Weekly Reader Corporation. Haslam, A. (1996). Maps. Chicago, IL: World Book. Introduction to Symbols Lesson. (n.d.). In World Maps Online. Retrieved March 31, 2014,

from http://www.worldmapsonline.com/LESSON-PLANS/k-3-us-map-lesson-2-introduction-to-symbols-print.pdf

McCarthy, T. (1992). Literature Based Geography Activities An Integrated Approach. New York, NY: Scholastic.

Nayer, J. (2009). Communities. Northborough, MA: Newbridge. Scotton, R. (2011, December). Russell and the Lost Treasure. The Mailbox, 25(6), 8. Seldomridge, R. (2013, December 1). Literature Circles. In The Middle School Mouth.

Retrieved February 17, 2014, from http://themiddleschoolmouth.blogspot.com/

Citations Continued Shenzhen, G. (2008). On the Move. Chicago, IL: World Book. Tamblyn, C. M. (2004). Neighborhoods & Communities Maps for the Overhead. New

York, NY: Scholastic. Taylor, B. (1993). Maps and Mapping. New York, NY: Kingfisher Publications. The Complete Book of Maps and Geography. (2010). Greensboro, NC: American

Education Publishing. Types of Communities. (n.d.). In Interactive Maps. Retrieved March 31, 2014, from

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g3_u1/ Vierow, W. (2004). Neighborhoods & Communities Instant Map Skills. New York, NY:

Scholastic. We All Go Traveling By (2012, July 25). In Youtube. Retrieved March 1, 2014, from

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=cSw50Jw0H34 Wetzel, T. (Narrator). (2011). There's A Map on My Lap! All About Maps [Motion

picture/YouTube]. <http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=NazvXwWumaQ> Whitted, R. (2013, April). Playground With Perks [Letter to the editor]. The Mailbox, 6(2),

41.