Social studies
Climate Zones: Classifying Seven Weather Stations
Students apply simple rules to temperature and rainfall data to classify climate zones and learn how latitude and elevation affect temperature.
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Latitude and Longitude: Finding Cities by Coordinates
Students use a table of city coordinates to name hemispheres, identify mystery cities, and calculate degree differences.
Social studies
Map Scale and Legend: Reading the Pinecrest County Map
Students read a map legend, find features by grid square, and use a scale to convert map distances to real distances.
Social studies
Mapping Marlow Island: Directions, Grid Squares, and Scale
Students use a made-up island map to practice grid coordinates, compass directions, and map scale.
Social studies
Migration and Urbanization: Push and Pull Factors in Brightwater
Students sort push and pull factors, analyze urbanization data for a made-up country, and apply the ideas to a short case.
Social studies
Physical and Human Geography: Features, Resources and Regions
Students sort features into physical and human geography, classify natural resources, and identify three types of regions.
Social studies
Population Density: Calculating and Comparing Six Countries
Students calculate population density for six made-up countries, rank them, and explain how land and cities affect density.