2011-2012 Drexel Elementary Team Lesson Plans
Monday
ELPS
(English
Language
Proficienc
y
Standard)
ELL STAGE III
Grades 3-5
Reading Standard
4 HI-22
Locate information
for a specific
purpose. (e.g.,
atlas, glossary,
textbook, indexes,
websites, podcast,
webinars, etc…)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
ELL STAGE III
Grades 3-5
Reading Standard
4 HI-22
Locate information
for a specific
purpose. (e.g.,
atlas, glossary,
textbook, indexes,
websites, podcast,
webinars, etc…)
ELL STAGE III
Grades 3-5
Reading Standard
4 HI-22
Locate information
for a specific
purpose. (e.g.,
atlas, glossary,
textbook, indexes,
websites, podcast,
webinars, etc…)
ELL STAGE III
Grades 3-5
Reading Standard
4 HI-22
Locate information
for a specific
purpose. (e.g.,
atlas, glossary,
textbook, indexes,
websites, podcast,
webinars, etc…)
Objective:
G5.4SS.C1P.O.2.
Locate features in the
world (e.g., continents,
waterways, mountain
ranges, cities) on a map
using latitude and
longitude.
G5.4SS.C1P.O.2.
Locate features in the
world (e.g., continents,
waterways, mountain
ranges, cities) on a map
using latitude and
longitude.
G5.4SS.C1P.O.2.
Locate features in the
world (e.g., continents,
waterways, mountain
ranges, cities) on a map
using latitude and
longitude.
G5.4SS.C1P.O.2.
Locate features in the
world (e.g., continents,
waterways, mountain
ranges, cities) on a map
using latitude and
longitude.
Student
Friendly
Objective
I can locate places
on a map using
longitude and
latitude.
I can locate
places on a map
using longitude
and latitude.
I can locate places
on a map using
longitude and
latitude.
I can locate places
on a map using
longitude and
latitude.
Vocabulary
Materials:
Longitude, latitude, degrees,
equator, prime meridian,
continents, intermediate
directions
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Longitude latitude
handouts
crayons
Laptops
PowerPoint
Longitude, latitude,
degrees, equator, prime
meridian, continents
intermediate directions
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Longitude
latitude
handouts
crayons
Laptops
PowerPoint
Longitude, latitude, degrees,
equator, prime meridian,
continents intermediate directions
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Activities
1. View
PowerPoint
http://geography.m
rdonn.org/powerp
oints/latitudelongitude.html
2. Read Handout
1. Review
PowerPoint
if necessary
2. Read
Handout on
latitude
3. Review
Longitude latitude
handouts
crayons
Laptops
PowerPoint
Direction Cards
(index cards with N,
S, E, W, NE, NW,
SE, SW)
Worksheets:
Compass Points,
Latitude and
Longitude
1. Review directions and
intermediate directions.
Students can sit in a
circle. Pass out
N,S,E,W cards to
students as if on a
compass rose
Longitude, latitude, degrees,
equator, prime meridian,
continents intermediate
directions
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

Longitude latitude
handouts
crayons
Laptops
PowerPoint
1. View
PowerPoint
2. Read Handout
on latitude
3. Review
intermediate
directions
on latitude
3. Review
intermediate
directions
4. Complete
activity 1
5. Practice
latitude and
longitude with
game
http://www.abcya.com/latit
ude_and_longitude_practic
e.htm
intermediate
directions
4. Complete
activity 2
5. Practice
latitude and
longitude
with game
http://www.abcya.com/l
atitude_and_longitude_p
ractice.htm
4. Skills Check
5. Practice
latitude and
longitude with
game
2. Choose a student to go
North, South East
West.
3. Now ask them to walk
to a student that is not
directly N, or South, or
East or West.
4. What direction are
they?
5. Review intermediate
directions.
6. Now have a student
walk to each direction.
7.
8. Play a game where
students move to
different directions in
the classroom based on
compass rose.
9. Read Handout on
latitude
10. Review intermediate
directions
11. Complete activity 3
12. Practice latitude and
http://www.abcya.com/latit
ude_and_longitude_practice
.htm
longitude with game
http://www.abcya.com/latitud
e_and_longitude_practice.htm