Description
**This is the Google Slides version of the full lesson plan Mapping Skills with Google Earth™ for grades 6-8. This bundle includes all 6 chapters along with bonus extension activities in the form of crossword, word search and comprehension quiz.**
Help your middle school students move on to a more complex understanding of map reading. Our resource allows students to further develop their ability to read and understand maps. Practice what you've learned about coordinates by finding the matching countries on Google Earth™. Test your comprehension of a precipitation map by answering questions related to a map of North America. Explore the past with Google Earth™, and see how the population of certain places have changed over time. Find the states or provinces and capital cities of your country. See how many surrounding countries you can name. Find the highest mountain, longest river and largest lake in your continent. Compare a world map with a globe, such as Google Earth™. Find out which is a more accurate representation of the world.
Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reading passages, map activities, before you read and assessment activities are included.
About GOOGLE SLIDES:
This resource is for Google Slides use. Google Slides is free with a Google email account. We recommend having Google Classroom in addition to Google Slides to optimize use of this resource. This will allow you to easily give assignments to students with a click of a button. This resource is comprised of interactive slides for students to complete activities right on their device. It is ideal for distance learning, as teachers can share the resource remotely with their students, have them complete it and return, where the teacher can mark it from any location.
What You Get:
• 6 complete Chapter Google™ Slides presentations with reading passages, comprehension questions and drag and drop activities that students can edit and send back to the teacher.
• A bonus Google™ Slides presentation with crossword, word search and comprehension quiz.
• A start-up manual, including a Teacher Guide on how to use Google Slides for your classroom, and an Answer Key to go along with the activities in the Google Slides document.
Chapters Included in this Bundle:
- Map Elements
- Weather Maps
- Population Maps
- Map Your Country
- Map Your Continent
- Map the World
- Extension Activities: Crossword, Word Search and Comprehension Quiz