Reading Maps Jr. Lesson Plan: Geography and Migration

Grade Levels: K-3

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Reading Maps, and supports the standard of locating and describing places. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Prompt students to reflect on locations within their school. Ask:

  • What is your favorite place within our school?
  • How would you describe this place to someone trying to go there?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Play the Reading Maps movie.  
  • Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS

Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about reading maps while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

  • Draw About It: Draw a map of your room with a map key.
  • Activity: Mark the path on a map to find the buried treasure.  
  • Talk About It: Look at a globe. Find a place on the globe for each letter of the alphabet.
  • Write About It: Describe what landmarks you would include in a map of your town.

More to Explore 

Geography Unit: Continue to build understanding around geography skills by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Filed as:  BrainPOP Jr., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.4