Site of the Week: April 30th

Site of the Week 4/30

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/map-puzzles.htm

This website helps students with developing map skills. Students can choose online map puzzles to complete for the following countries/ continents: United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada, Southeast Asia and Australia and North, South and Central America.

One of the biggest benefits to using this websites is that the difficulty level can be changed. For example, if students choose to do the United States map they will be given three options: states with outlines, states without outlines and/or capitals. I would say about 90% of my 5th and 6th graders need to use the states with out lines category. In this game students are given a map of the United States with each state being outlined but not filled in. They are then given just the outline of a state and its name where they are supposed to drag and drop it in the correct spot on the map.

STATE GOAL 17: Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States.

A. Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth.
17.A.1b Identify the characteristics and pur­poses of geographic representations including maps, globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each.
17.A.2b Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments.