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Understanding Maps and Characteristics of Places

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Kristen Sullins
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Need a way for students to learn how to read and make their own maps? Do you struggle to teach about the physical and human characteristics of places? This product's easy click and print resources can be used to practice fine motor skills and utilize interactive notebooks, graphic organizers and writing pages.

This resource is designed to review the following skills:

1. Cover Page

-All About Maps and Places (to create a booklet)
-5 Vocabulary Pages

2. Facts

-KWL Chart

-All About Maps and Places

-I Know About Characteristics of Places (with answer key)

-I Can List Physical Characteristics

-I Can List Human Characteristics

-What I’ve Learned About Maps and Places

3. Describing with Adjectives

-Map

-Globe

4. Writing

-My Favorite Place

-A New Place

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For Texas Teachers, this bundle is related to the following 2020 TEKS:

1.3a (K.3a) describe the location of self and objects relative to other locations in the classroom and school using spatial terms; and 

1.3b (K.3b) locate places using the four cardinal directions 

1.4a (2.3b) create and use simple maps such as maps of the home, classroom, school, and community; and 

1.5a (K.4a, 2.4b) identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, Earth's resources, and weather; and 

1.5b (K.4b, 2.5b) identify and describe how geographic location influences the human characteristics of place such as shelter, clothing, food, and activities. 

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