Students read a made-up town map using its legend, compass rose, letter-number grid and scale bar, then add a place and plan a route.
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Students read a map of Tumblebrook, a made-up town with a lake, three streets and six places. They name legend symbols, give the direction from one place to another using all eight compass points, find places by grid box, and count distances with a scale bar one grid square long. To finish, they draw a new place on the map, add it to the legend, and write directions from the hospital to the park, with a street, direction and distance for each part and a total.
On the distance questions, students often count the boxes the places sit in instead of the steps between them, and get 4 from the school (A) to the library (D) instead of 3. Have them put a finger on the start box and count each move.
For the diagonal directions, have students put the center of the compass rose on the starting place. Library to fire station goes down and to the left, which is southwest.
Ways to adjust the Tumblebrook map questions for different learners.
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Students read a town map's legend and grid boxes, then add a new place with a symbol and legend entry; they do not draw a whole map with a title.
Students use the compass rose to give directions between places, including northeast and southwest, and write a route; the map is a made-up town, not the students' own community, and globes are not used.
Students use a scale of 1 square to 1 mile to find distances along streets and total a route; globes are not used.
No. Tumblebrook is made up, so students use the map's own tools rather than local knowledge.
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