Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Getting Familiar with Mapping

This lesson was created by Susan Wernimont, Jayne Meyer, Carl Meyers, and Beth Jarding (Dubuque School District) for students from first to fifth grade. This lesson plan will allow students to learn how to use tools to make maps and analyze them.

Discipline/Subject

Physical Geography

Theme

Landforms

Cartography/Maps

21st Century Universal Constructs

Creativity

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Region

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

15. How physical systems affect human systems

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

GE 4. Understand how physical processes and human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans