Standard 1: The World in Spatial Terms

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Number: SS.1.G.1
Title: The World in Spatial Terms
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 1
Strand: Geography

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Access Points

SS.1.G.1.AP.1
Identify Florida and student’s hometown on a map.
SS.1.G.1.AP.2
Recognize key elements of maps and globes.
SS.1.G.1.AP.3
Complete a pictorial map using symbols for designated areas.
SS.1.G.1.AP.4
Identify land and water on a map and globe.
SS.1.G.1.AP.5
Locate Florida and a major body of water that borders Florida.
SS.1.G.1.AP.6
Identify a selected characteristic of the student’s environment with its personal effect on the student.

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Traveling With Clifford:

In this MEA lesson plan, students will work on their map skills while they practice collecting data in categories, representing data using pictographs, and interpreting data in pictographs to solve a problem. Students will read and/or listen to the story Clifford Takes a Trip. After discussing the story, they will then plan a trip for Clifford to visit the great state of Florida.

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Matter Man:

Students will be able to build a model of a snowman by using different states of matter. They will be able to use their prior knowledge of understanding that almost everything is made of matter. Then, they will use information learned to design and create a "Matter Man" and its environment.

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