Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book

Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction. 

Here's how it works! 

• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations. 
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. 
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. 
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Map Skills- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:

• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities & More!

Tips for using and reproducing the book pages: 

• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. 
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. 
• Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

©2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.

ISBN: 978-0-635-10625-4

Table of Contents include:

What Are Maps?: Reading Informational Text
Cartography: Main Idea
Reading a Map: Applying Concepts
A Community Map: Map Activity
Using a Simple Grid: Concepts & Processes
Imaginary Lines Divide the Earth: Reading Informational Text
Views of the World: Comparison of Primary Sources
Building a Map: Concepts & Processes
Relative & Absolute Location: Applying Concepts
Location, Location, Location: Classifying Information
Political & Climate Maps: Compare & Contrast
Physical & Resource Maps: Comparison of Sources
A Map Series: Graphical Data Analysis
Aerial Painting: Primary Source Analysis 
Common Core State Standards Correlations