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Lesson Overview: This lesson is intended to be an investigation into the use of latitude and longitude positioning grids.

Time Resources: This lesson is designed for a time period of 75 minutes.

Objectives: Students will be able to read and plot latitude and longitude positions on a map, and create a map using latitude and longitude coordinates.

Educational Instruction: Reading and interactive questioning on Latitude and Longitude m - 15 minutes.

Activity #1, Creating a Latitude and Longitude Grid on a Paper Map – 30 minutes

Activity #2, Creating a Map using Latitude and Longitude Coordinates – 30 minutes.

Materials: The materials needed for this lesson include the paper map the students created from the lesson on Contour Maps (Activity #2) ruler and access to a world globe.

Assessment: Assessment is embedded in informal questions within the main text and within a formal assessment quiz inclusive of entire unit at the end of the unit lessons.
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