1st Grade Geography Skills
Abstract
This module leads first grade students through an investigation of maps and exploring how and why we represent the physical world the way we do on maps. It.encourages students to consider our ability to represent real-world places on a map. Students will explore the meaning and purpose of maps, the tools that help us represent places, the purposes of those tools, and how we use those tools to read and make maps. This module will give students a foundation to develop their geographic reasoning and map literacy.