The Greatest Places


Lesson Plans for Social Studies (7th Grade)
Dolores A. Pallan, Aliquippa, PA

Latitude and Longitude



  1. Students are to learn how to find latitude and longitude

  2. Students are to be given a list of The Greatest Places to find the latitude and longitude

  3. Simulated search for some lost item is to be given as a cooperative learning experience

Distance
  1. Students are to learn how to use the key on a map in determining distance

  2. Using a length of string, students are to measure the distance from one point on a globe to another and to record them

  3. Questions to be answered:
    Why use an Arctic route to get from one greatest place to another?
    Must you always use this type of route? Why? Why not?
    When is a straight line not the shortest distance?


Location



Using The Greatest Places :
  1. Where is ___(Tibet)____________? (Place other greatest places in blank area.)

  2. Name the bodies of water that touch the area of each Greatest Place.

  3. What Place (that you know for sure) is near this Greatest Place?

Direction

  1. From Aliquippa (or your home), where is (list the seven Greatest Places) Give only the direction: S, E, N, W, SE, NE, NW, SW.

  2. What direction are you traveling if you go from one Greatest Place (i.e.. Greenland) to another Greatest Place (i.e.. NambibDesert). Make seven (7) such questions to be done cooperatively.