Description
8 coordinate plot cards of early American explorers. Engage your students in meaningful practice of coordinate grid math concepts, social studies review, and reading summary and inference practice.
Each coordinate card features the plot points for an early explorer's route that is color coded. This activity is aligned with Common Core Standards for fifth grade which require students to review the following skills:
Nonfiction Summary (ELA)
Coordinate Grids (Math)
Early Explorers (Social Studies)
Inferences (ELA)
Geography Points (Social Studies)
The task has been designed to require students to use multiple geography resources including maps, atlases, and globes to discover and infer different Explorer Routes.
These cards are perfect for test prep review, whole class lesson, or small group enrichment.
You can print them all in black and white, however, they are color coded to match with the plots made on the map, so it is better to print them in color.
**ANSWER KEY AND EXAMPLE PROJECT INCLUDED!**
These are meant to go along with Early Explorer Mini Biographies found for FREE on my TPT site.
Each coordinate card features the plot points for an early explorer's route that is color coded. This activity is aligned with Common Core Standards for fifth grade which require students to review the following skills:
Nonfiction Summary (ELA)
Coordinate Grids (Math)
Early Explorers (Social Studies)
Inferences (ELA)
Geography Points (Social Studies)
The task has been designed to require students to use multiple geography resources including maps, atlases, and globes to discover and infer different Explorer Routes.
These cards are perfect for test prep review, whole class lesson, or small group enrichment.
You can print them all in black and white, however, they are color coded to match with the plots made on the map, so it is better to print them in color.
**ANSWER KEY AND EXAMPLE PROJECT INCLUDED!**
These are meant to go along with Early Explorer Mini Biographies found for FREE on my TPT site.
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Highlights
Digital downloads
Grades
5th - 7th
Subjects
Standards
CCSS5.MD.B.2
CCSSRI.5.1
CCSSRI.5.2
Pages
11
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
2 days
Description
8 coordinate plot cards of early American explorers. Engage your students in meaningful practice of coordinate grid math concepts, social studies review, and reading summary and inference practice.
Each coordinate card features the plot points for an early explorer's route that is color coded. This activity is aligned with Common Core Standards for fifth grade which require students to review the following skills:
Nonfiction Summary (ELA)
Coordinate Grids (Math)
Early Explorers (Social Studies)
Inferences (ELA)
Geography Points (Social Studies)
The task has been designed to require students to use multiple geography resources including maps, atlases, and globes to discover and infer different Explorer Routes.
These cards are perfect for test prep review, whole class lesson, or small group enrichment.
You can print them all in black and white, however, they are color coded to match with the plots made on the map, so it is better to print them in color.
**ANSWER KEY AND EXAMPLE PROJECT INCLUDED!**
These are meant to go along with Early Explorer Mini Biographies found for FREE on my TPT site.
Each coordinate card features the plot points for an early explorer's route that is color coded. This activity is aligned with Common Core Standards for fifth grade which require students to review the following skills:
Nonfiction Summary (ELA)
Coordinate Grids (Math)
Early Explorers (Social Studies)
Inferences (ELA)
Geography Points (Social Studies)
The task has been designed to require students to use multiple geography resources including maps, atlases, and globes to discover and infer different Explorer Routes.
These cards are perfect for test prep review, whole class lesson, or small group enrichment.
You can print them all in black and white, however, they are color coded to match with the plots made on the map, so it is better to print them in color.
**ANSWER KEY AND EXAMPLE PROJECT INCLUDED!**
These are meant to go along with Early Explorer Mini Biographies found for FREE on my TPT site.
Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.
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A great visual and supplemental resource for learning about the explorers.
Great resource for math/social studies engagement and easy to use!
This is a great resource! I will use this every year with my students.
My students enjoyed this activity and it worked well for my classroom.
My students loved using this resource to pretend they were explorers. It was helpful to teach latitude and longitude. I appreciate that we had to really check the map in order to make sure which explorer route we were documenting.
I am so glad to hear your students were engaged and learning! Thanks for sharing ?
Students enjoyed this plotting activity!
Loved integrating math into my social studies unit on explorers.
Yay! I am so glad it was successful for you and your students!
This was a fun resource and I plan on using it yearly!
I am so glad you found this activity useful for your class!
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS5.MD.B.2
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally.
CCSSRI.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSSRI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
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