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🗺️ 1st Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.2.K-2Unit 3: Maps & geography

Map keys and symbols

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🎯 Objective: Students read a map key.

Lesson outline

  1. Treasure map.
  2. Make a key.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: read a symbol.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Geo.2.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use map keys, symbols and the compass rose
  • Identify continents and oceans

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Maps & geography”

  1. Map keys and symbols
  2. Compass rose
  3. Continents and oceans
  4. Where in the world?

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