Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Fun with Longitude and Latitude

This lesson was created by Angela Groene for fifth grade students. During this lesson plan, students will strengthen their skills in plotting points on a map using longitude and latitude in two different activities.

Discipline/Subject

Physical Geography

Theme

Cartography/Maps

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

National Geographic Standards

3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments