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Student Instructions
How can maps help us? What do the ysymbols on maps mean?
1. Tap the 
button to start activity.
2. Click the 
to 👀watch the vedio.
3. Draw 
a map of YOUR neighborhood, community, or home🗺️?
4. it on paper
5. Take a photo 
and put it on this slide.
6. 
tell us about your map. Don't forget to have a key with symbols.
7. Tap the 
and add to 
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
This will work well with SS Community map as well as Sci. landforms. From PBS Map it: https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac17-k2-sci-ess-mapit/map-it/ Students follow a neighborhood map and describe the symbols that represent different locations in this video from KET. Explore different types of maps and how different things are represented on maps in this media gallery from WGBH. Maps are used to help locate different places and different things. Map symbols are representations of larger things in the world, such as streets or mountains. Students can use the media in this gallery to practice mapping skills and to learn how maps are used to locate things in the world, including landforms and water bodies.
