Using Map Skills in the Classroom
Teachers can assign students their seats by posting signs in the classroom, labeling each row of seats by
lines of latitude and longitude. Then pass out slips of paper identifying the location of the student’s seat
with geographic coordinate numbers. The students may find this “mad scramble” for seats entertaining.
(Be sure that students wait until everyone has their location sheet before allowing anyone to find their
individual seat—that way the process of elimination cannot be utilized by students getting their sheets last).