Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities

The Map Skills Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It 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.

How to Use the Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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 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!

Tips:
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", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The 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!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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 G
Imaginary Lines Divide the Earth: Reading Informational Text
Views of the World: Comparison of Primary Sources
Building a Map: Concepts & Processes G
Relative & Absolute Location: Applying Concepts
Location, Location, Location: Classifying Information
Political & Climate Maps: Compare & Contrast GO1
Physical & Resource Maps: Comparison of Sources
A Map Series: Graphical Data Analysis
Aerial Painting: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlation

G: Includes Graphic Organizers