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span style=”font-size: medium;”Map Skills – Common Core Lessons and Activities book/spanMeet the new Common Core State Standards/em for ELA as well as Literacy ;amp; Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction.span style=”font-size: small;”Here’s how it works!/spanWork through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations.Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire – you can decide how in-depth to go.Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor ofCommon CoreState Standards, right before your eyes!span style=”font-size: small;”Map Skills- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:/spanReading for InformationHigher-Order ThinkingWriting ProblemsPrimary Source AnalysisVocabularyGraphic OrganizersMap Activities ;amp; More!span style=”font-size: small;”Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:/spanUse some of the pages – or use them all – based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see whichCommon Corestandards are covered in each lesson.Copyright 2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.ISBN:978-0-635-10625-4Table of Contents include:What Are Maps?: Reading Informational Textbr /Cartography: Main Ideabr /Reading a Map: Applying Conceptsbr /A Community Map: Map Activitybr /Using a Simple Grid:Concepts ;amp; Processesbr /Imaginary Lines Divide the Earth:Reading Informational Textbr /Views of the World:Comparison of Primary Sourcesbr /Building a Map:Concepts ;amp; Processesbr /Relative ;amp; Absolute Location:Applying Conceptsbr /Location, Location, Location:Classifying Informationbr /Political ;amp; Climate Maps:Compare ;amp; Contrastbr /Physical ;amp; Resource Maps:Comparison of Sourcesbr /A Map Series:Graphical Data Analysisbr /Aerial Painting:Primary Source Analysisbr /Common Core State Standards Correlations
